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Summary - Chitta - 02-24-2025
The attachments are from https://x.com/manas_muduli/status/1888069391469920736?lang=en
The key points from it is as follows:
Greater Bhubaneswar Region
- History - Currently only 419 sq km around Bhubaneswar, Khurda and Jatni
- History - Greater Capital region (1100 sq km) was mooted in 2016 and added Cuttack
- This plan: adds Puri and Paradip and thus will encompass Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Puri and Paradip
- It will have an area of 8500 sq km., bigger than Bengaluru (8053 sq km) and Chennai (8201 sq km)
- Its total population is 40 lakhs now, and expected to be 50 lakhs in 10 years
- Future plan: a New satellite city near Bhubaneswar
- Metro train
RE: Summary - Chitta - 06-24-2025
Some details of the plan:
See https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/cm-led-board-to-prepare-roadmap-for-development-of-capital-economic-region/articleshow/122031913.cms
Summarized in https://x.com/manas_muduli/status/1937364666281603572 as follows:
Quote:As part of the Bhubaneswar-Cuttack-Puri-Paradip Economic Region (BCPPER):
> New city near Chandaka, inspired by GIFT City
> ‘New Cuttack’ along Mahanadi river
> 5,000-acre industrial zone between Bhubaneswar & Cuttack
> A 2,500-acre Aerotropolis in Puri
> A 200-acre Medi-City with 5,000 hospital beds in Cuttack
> ‘New Cuttack’ to be developed on reclaimed waterfront land along the Mahanadi as a world-class ecological park and tourism hub
Target: BCPPER to be a $500 billion economic hub by 2047