This is a presentation on Bhubaneswar and why to invest in bhubaneswar.

1. INVEST BHUBANESWAR Website: http://investbhubaneswar.in/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/InvestBBSR NH-5 Author - devasissarangi@gmail.com

2. Test Your IQ!!! Where is the biggest watch in the World operational? Where in the world is the largest earthen dam located? Where is the oldest form of Poker game still played in the World? Where in the World can you get your birth certificate written with the oldest known form of writing today ? Where in the World can you get Organic food, aplenty? Where in the world can you enjoy the largest Open theatre? Where is the oldest, largest and biggest Car Festival still celebrated? Pulled by Humans!!! Where is Heliotherapy practiced in the largest scale on a single day ? Where is the oldest Fortified city in the world located? Where in the world would you find the largest sleeping image of a Deity? Where in World is the only naturally leaning temple located? Where in the world is the largest brackish water lake with Irrawaddy dolphins located? Where in the world can you see your whole life’s activities depicted in stone?

3. Palm Leaf Sisupalgarh Huma Ashokan Edict Harishankar Konark Gahirmatha RathYatra Discover Orissa!!! Ganifa Chilika DhanuJatra Bhimkund Hirakud Dam

4. World Bank 2009 “Bhubaneswar ranks 3rdamong cities in ease of doing business within India”. BHUBANESWAR

6. Surplus City

7. Educated & Young City

8. Economically Developed City

9. Connected City

10. Tourism Hub

11. Hospitality & MICE Hub

12. Knowledge Hub

13. Health Care & Medical Tourism Hub

14. IT & ITES Hub

15. Multi Modal Logistics Hub

16. Minerals & Metals, Manufacturing and Energy Hub

18. BHUBANESWAR HAS A STORY TO TELL

19. Beautification of Uncovered Drains Six Lane Roads with defined and dedicated Cycle Track and Pathway STATE OF THE ART INFRASTRUCTURE FACILITIES Modern Bus Shelters –PPP Mode

21. Elephant Sanctuary – Chandaka

22. Reserved Forest – Nadankanan

23. Mountain Range – Barunei Hills

24. Portable Water Surplus City -

25. Rate of supply at 275 (lcpd) vs recommended supply of 150 lcpd of comparable cities.

26. Mahanadi, Kathojodi & Kuakhai Rivers

27. Power Surplus CitySURPLUS CITY

29. Males constitute - 56%

32. Migratory Birds at Chilika – 2 Hour Drive from Bhubaneswar TOURISM HUB OF EASTERN INDIA Puri Beach – 1 Hour Drive from Bhubaneswar

34. Plan by: Otto H Königsberger

35. German Architect

36. Designed -Berlin Olympic stadium

37. Won the SchinkelPrize for Architecture

39. Mix business with pleasure, De-stress yourself!!! Go on a White Tiger Safari – Nandankan Zoo – 15 minsdrive Dance with the Tribals - Tribal Museum at Bhubaneswar– 15 mins Meditate in Peace – Dhauli – 20 minsdrive Lock yourself at the oldest Fortified City – Sisupalgarh - 20 minsdrive Play Hide and Seek with your kid at the Jain caves – Khandagiri & Udayagiri – 25 minsdrive Hold your durbar at the fort – Barbati Fort – 30 minsdrive Shop silver filigree for your loved ones – Cuttack- 45 mins Beat your friend at the Poker Game – Ganifa – Raghurajpur – 45 mins Get your birth certificate written on Palm leaf – Raghurajpur – 45 mins Laze in one of the finest sandy beaches in India– Puri beach– 1 hour drive from Airport Play golf by the beach – Samuka Beach - 18 hole golf course at Samuka beach -1 hour drive Have Organic Food at the World’s biggest kitchen – Jagannath temple – 1 hour drive Forgot your watch, check the time on world’s largest watch – Konark – 1.5 hours drive Play with the Dolphins in the world’s largest brackish lake– Chilika Lake – 2 hours drive Your quest for Nirvana ends here - Ratnagiri, Udayagiri & Lalitgiri – 2 hours drive

40. MAYFAIR LAGOON HOSPITALITY HUB & MICE CENTRE OF EASTERN INDIA TRIDENT HILTON

42. Existing – 891 rooms

44. 1,000 rooms of five-star category

45. 4,000 rooms of three-star categorySource : The Pioneer, Nov 2009

46. MICE HUB MAYFAIR CONVENTION CENTRE

48. Existing - 11,387 pax

50. ENGINNERING IIT BHUBANESWAR TEMPORARY CAMPUS KNOWLEDGE HUB OF EASTERN INDIA MANAGEMENT XAVIER INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT IIIT, Bhubaneswar PANDIT HARI PRASAD CHAURASIA’s MUSIC SCHOOL MUSIC VEDANTAUNIVERSITY CONCEPTUAL PLAN

52. At least one University or Institute ofInternational / National Repute in each field in and around Bhubaneswar

53. Apollo Hospital Bhubaneswar Hemalata – Super Specialty:Cancer &Neurosciences MEDICAL TOURISM & HEALTHCARE HUB OF EASTERN INDIA Care – Super specialty – Cardiac Surgery LV PRASAD EYE INSTITUTE, BUBANESWAR – Super Specialty- Opthalmology

55. Indian Institute of Public Health, 4 Medical Colleges in the vincity

56. Medical facilities

57. Existing – 5,030 Beds (ICU beds – 2000+)

59. 50% from Bangladesh & Nepal:

62. Country’s Leading Cardiologist

63. Dr S C Das – Head of Department of Nephrology for more than 2 decades at AIIMS Delhi

64. Country’s Leading Nephrologist

65. Huge Diaspora of Oriya Doctors in the USA – Reverse Brain Drain Phenomenon has started…

66. TCS Bhubaneswar Campus Infosys Bhubaneswar Campus IT & ITES HUB OF EASTERN INDIA Campus in the making IIIT Bhubaneswar Master Plan, IIIT

68. IIIT at Gothapatana- 14 km from Bhubaneswar – Quality Manpower for the IT sector

69. Leading Private Sector Bank - ICICI Bank - Eastern Regional Hub

70. GENPACT Global Delivery BPO Centre

71. IT SMEs: More than 300 units in and around Bhubaneswar

72. Group of investors from Silicon Valley setting up 5000 seater IT/ITES facility

73. Target of exporting software: US $ 1 bn by 2011-12

74. IT SEZs in various stages of implementation…

75. Info valley -15 km from Bhubaneswar - Integrated Township – 613 Acres

76. DLF Info Park - Foundation stone laid – 1000 Crore Investment

77. Mindspace I.T. Park by K.Raheja Corp

80. Ports - Over US$ 3 bn investment

81. Roads - Over $ 5 bn investment in next 3 years

82. Railways - Over $ 1.5 bn investment in next 3 years

83. National Water Way Project

85. Bhubaneswar – Proximity to the Eastern Port Hub

87. TATA SPONGE IRON LTD NALCO NTPC LTD ACC LTD NILACHAL STEEL PLANT VEDANTA ALUMINIUM MINERALS & METALS, MANUFACTURING & ENERGY HUB OF EASTERN INDIA INDIAN RARE EARTH LTD PARADEEP PHOSPHATE LTD TALCHER COAL FIELDS SUKINDA CHROMITE MINES JODA IRON ORE MINES

89. 98% of Chromite of India

90. 95% of Nickel of India

91. 60% of Bauxite of India

92. 26% of Iron Ore of India

93. 24% of Coal of India

94. Steel - 49 projects - Over75 MTPA of Steel

95. > US$40 Billion investment (- 29 partly commisioned)

96. Aluminum – 4 complexes -Over 4 MTPA alumina

97. over 1 mtpa aluminum smelter capacity

98. > US$ 7 Billion investment

99. Power - 21 Thermal Power Projects – Over 25,500 MW

100. >US$ 24 Billion investment

101. Petro Chemicals- Over 15 MTPA Petrochemical Complex by IOC

103. COME VISIT US ARE YOU GAME? Two cubs born to a white Bengal tiger play with a ball at the Nandankanan Zoological Park on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar, India Picture: AP