Capital: Raipur.
Government (सरकार)
Doing Business in Chhattisgarh (व्यापार) Economy (अर्थव्यवस्था)
Main industries: Steel (20% of India).
Other industries:
Agro based and food processing, chemical (रासायनिक), plastic (प्लास्टिक), constructions material, forest produce based units.
Power generation opportunities (Government of Gujarat is putting up a 500 MW generation plant in Korba)
Information Technology:
CHiPs (Chhattisgarh Infotech and biotech Promotion Society) has been setup with a high powered governing council under the Chief Minister's chairperson ship
to act as a prime mover for IT and Biotechnology in the state.
Natural resources: forests, minerals, surface water, coal reserves -87% of India).
Agriculture
80 per cent of the
work force in the state. Kharif is the main cropping season which accounts for
about 4,640 thousand hectares. Rice is the predominant crop of the state; other
important crops are Maize, Wheat, Niger, Groundnut and Pulses.
Transport
Roads: The total length of the roads in the State is 35,388.54 km.
Railways (1,053 km): Raipur,
Bilaspur, Durg, Rajnandgaon, Raigarh and Korba are important railway stations. Total
railway route length is .
Airlines: Raipur is connected
with New Delhi, Nagpur, Mumbai and Bhubaneswar by daily flights.
Districts (जिले) (Dantewada Dhamtari Durg Janjgir-Champa Jashpur Kanker Kawardha Mahsamund
Raigarh Rajnandgaon Surguja)
Localities (बस्तियों)
Bhilai
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Chhattisgarh (छत्तीसगढ़). Area : 1,36,034 sq km.
Population: 20,795,956. Principal Languages:
Hindi
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Chhattisgarh is bounded by southern Jharkhand and Orissa in the east, Madhya
Pradesh and Maharashtra in the west, Uttar Pradesh and western Jharkhand in the
north and Andhra Pradesh in the south. Chhattisgarh is the ninth largest state
and population-wise it is seventeenth state of the nation.
Travel and tourism (पर्यटन) (यात्रा पर्यटन)
The State is full of
ancient monuments, rare wildlife, carved temples, Buddhist (बौद्ध) sites,
palaces, waterfalls, caves, rock paintings, and hill plateaus.
Bastar (cultural and ecological). Chitrakote
(Falls), Tirathgarh (Falls).
Other destinations: the Keshkal valley,
Kangerghat National Park, Kailash caves and Kutumbsar caves.
In
Bilaspur, Mahamaya Temple (मंदिर) at Ratanpur,
Khutaghat waterfall, Dindneswari Devi Temple (मंदिर) of Mallahar and the
Achanakmar sanctuary, Udanti sanctuary near Raipur, Pali and Kendai
waterfall of Korba district are important places of tourist interest.
The Sabari Temple (मंदिर) of Kharod Janjgir Champa, Nar Narayan Temple (मंदिर) of
Sivarinarayan, Vishnu Temple (मंदिर) of Janjgir are important religious
(धार्मिक) places.
Chhattisgarh (Dakshin-Kausal), came into being on 1 November
2000 as the 26th State of the Union. Kalchuris ruled in Chhattisgarh from 980 to 1791
AD. With the advent of Britishers in 1854, Raipur gained prominence
instead of capital Ratanpur. In 1904, Sambalpur was transferred to
Orissa and estates of Sarguja were transferred from Bengal to
Chhattisgarh.
Source: India.gov.in Images: Google Earth
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