Rourkela CITY SPOTLIGHT

Rourkela is among India’s oldest planned cities and the third largest urban agglomeration in the eastern state of Odisha after Bhubaneshwar and Cuttack. The city is known for India’s first integrated public sector steel plant, set up in the 1960s with German collaboration and technical expertise.

The township in the vicinity of the steel plant city was also designed by the German planners. This is one of the reasons why that area is better developed than adjoining localities which got neglected and often lacked basic amenities.

“Before the implementation of the Smart City project, the civil township area did not have all the facilities that was available for the Steel City people. We had to address that gap and GIS solutions played a huge role in defining the overall growth of the city,” says Ram Mohan Mishra, Town Planner for Rourkela Smart City Ltd. (RSCL).

“Our mission is to provide healthy and hygienic life to the people of the city and to improve the life of the people in our area