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ISHIR
A GLOBAL DIVERSIFIED OUTSOURCED IT SERVICES COMPANY
he business world changed T a lot with different digital techniques and ideas. Many businesses are processing smoothly in their domain with the help of digitization. Rishi Khanna CEO
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ISHIR assists its clients to achieve their business objectives by successfully outsourcing their noncore business processes and functions in the areas of technology and digital marketing. ISHIR has been servicing clients thousands of miles away, maturing into a core dependable extension of a client’s internal team. In a conversation with Rishi Khanna, CEO at ISHIR lets discover more about the firm and their journey from the inception.
company. • Tell us about the ISHIR, an Inc. 5000 company, is a trusted partner to many Independent Software Vendors (ISV), System Integrators (SI), Interactive Digital Marketing Agencies, start-ups, and large fortune 500 companies since 1999. We recently got the accolade from Great Place to Work.
ISHIR has extensive experience in providing outsourcing non-core business processes - IT functions (custom software development, application development, product development, SharePoint consulting and development, PWA, software testing, managed IT services, managed hosting, cloud computing solutions), Web Design and Development, Internet Marketing (search engine optimization (SEO), paid search (PPC), display, web analytics, and social media marketing services), Artificial Intelligence(AI), Internet of Things(IoT), Robotics Process Automation(RPA), setting up Built Operate Transfer (BOT), specialized R&D facilities, and non-IT business process outsourcing (BPO) functions (data entry, research, photo editing, customer support, finance).
ISHIR is an SEI CMMi Level 3 company. We are also Microsoft Gold Certified Partners, VM Ware Solution Partner, and Google AdWords Company. We minorityowned and certified by NMSDC and NCTRCA.
Started the business at the end of 1999 where the business model was to provide IT talent to the dotcom businesses. 5 months after the formation of the company there was the major dotcom burst in March 2000, which make us think who are target customers are going to be. We pivoted our services leveraging our capabilities in web application development and design towards software development companies that were traditionally building software for the desktop and traditional marketing agencies that needed to build a web presence for the businesses. you faced?
• Which was that point that company? In 2002, 9 months after the 9/11 attack we almost went out of the business because of the back lash on outsourcing services outside the US. Our firm commitment to our business model and our confidence in our services made us relentlessly focussed and committed to the business. Despite economic and political challenges, we never look back we just bulldozed forward. triggered the growth of the
changed since the foundation? The business has had its ups and downs based on economic and political changes over the last 20 years. We saw tremendous growth from 2002 to 2007 much like other companies experienced. We saw a flat growth or decline between 2007 and 2010 and since then, we have been continuously • How have the company graphs Interview with The Enterprise World
experiencing growth.
success? • What is the reason behind your company’s long-standing Our focus on core purpose, core values and maintaining the culture of the business along with focussing on our people, their personal and professional plans has given us a foundation of great talent and business leaders who are passionate about what they do and are able to work on the unique abilities to create a path of continuous growth and learning. Our people our culture our continuous desire to grow has been the reason for our long-standing success.
The Services
company focuses on? How are • What are the services the We focus on custom software development for the web, and mobile. We provide infrastructure services around Cloud, DevOps and offshore, nearshore, onshore IT staffing services, and Digital Marketing services. Our focus on customer experience and ideal customer outcome has ensured our services provide the right value to our customers which differentiate us from our competitors. in the market? your services different from those
How do you decide to take the company a step further in terms of your products/services?
We are very good at accessing the emerging technology trends. We If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.” -- Mohammad Ali
invest in continuous training and proof of concepts to help our teams to try out, risks, experiment with the new technologies. We constantly stay ahead of the curve on tech trends.
Is there any new addition to the list of products/services? Anything exciting you would like to share? Currently, there is a lot of demand around business automation leveraging AI and machine learning. We are currently investing more in RPA, AI, machine learning and services around them for our customers.
Leadership
• What do you think are the responsibilities of an entrepreneur? An entrepreneur has superpowers to bring a change in society improving our daily lives by challenging the stethoscope and issues that concerned our community.
Entrepreneurs’ responsibility is to leverage superpowers towards the betterment of the community and society as a whole.
They are risk-takers. They have comfort in continuous change and disruption.
They don’t get led down, demotivated when they face a dead end. In fact, it challenges them to find a way and do it.
• Can you please brief us about your professional experience? I started my career at Deloitte in the management consulting practice. Deloitte give me the foundation to understand unstructured business challenges and make structured meaning out of them. Deloitte gave me the foundation to even how professional companies run. The training and experiment allowed me to think and start ISHIR in IT services. My short stint of 16 months and now 20 years of ISHIR as an entrepreneur has shaped me into a well-seasoned business person. As an entrepreneur, I have learned a lot of stuff about myself as well as how to attract a great team of people to build a business.
First and foremost, over the last 20 years, I have been able to discern my own unique abilities and appreciate the things I was not good at and to identify people who are good at the things I was not good at. of your entrepreneurial journey? • What are the key achievements
I have been able to navigate the business through 3 major economic and political cycles over the last 20 years, the business and I have impacted over 1200 employees through the platform of our business. And even we have impacted 2500 businesses over the last 20 years. Our social responsibility programs have impacted the people who are in the most needs and we have the support of our people impacted their lives through monetary and non-monetary contributions.
As a business leader, it is my responsibility to help people much like creating a business plan for their lives. To help people identify their own core purpose, core values, and core beliefs and their unique abilities to impact their lives and families. Working together on the things I make sure that I and my team members become better every day. • How do you look after your team unique? employees? What makes your I’m an avid reader, I try to consume as many useful books each month as I could and try to implement nuggets in our business. My most recent book, Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility lays a number of great concepts around people and human resource management. There is a number of chapters that help us to come out of the editorial challenges and reinforce initiatives that we are already working on.
the most? • One person, who you admire Both my parents have a lot of great influence on my life as an entrepreneur. Both my parents have been entrepreneurs and while growing up I watched them grow their business and now they appreciate my business acumen and how I took it from them and have taken it forward.
• Is there any special experience to highlight? In ISHIR, we have some amazing relationships with our customers. And we have been able to help our customers scale and disrupt and stay relevant and innovate. We appreciate client relationships where they share our core values and purpose and treat our people with the utmost respect and dignity to help achieve excellence for all stakeholders involved. with your clients you would like
Personal Questions
• Can you tell us what your favourite part of the book? favourite book is? And your find the most inspiring? • Whose business story do you Tony Hsieh from Zappos, his story about how ‘Delivering Happiness’ to his employees has led to great business and growth of the company.
It’s a strategy because what gets inspected gets improved. • Constant vigilance- a need or a strategy? Please share your views.
• It’s a rat-race out there. How do you cope with that? You have to stay away from shiny objects and focus on what’s important for your business and you.
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Organizaonal Effecveness
rganizational effectiveness O in simple words is the efficiency with which an organization is able to meet the objectives. This is important in order to achieve the set goals of the company. With organizational effectiveness, one can monitor how effectively an organization achieved its set quota of results, and how much waste is produced overall.
These are few of the steps for organizational effectivenessGenerally, the organizational effectiveness for any company is expressed in terms of how well is the net profitability as compared to the target profitability. Some additional details also include the growth data and the results of customer satisfaction surveys.
Leadership
It is the role of the leaders to define and refine the key processes, and also implement them with a daily discipline, in order to achieve higher performances. A leader must be able to translate his goals and visions into strategies and objectives. Leaders are meant to address three important questions regarding
• Vision and Value • Strategy and Approach • Structure and Alignment Communication
Communication is the key in any organization. Everything happens because there is a conversation. Good communication ensures the impact of your message, how consistent you are with your intentions. The performance culture is mostly dependent on what you say, the way you say it, and what are the circumstances under which you said it. Leaders must maximize their daily contributions to conversations. This ensures that the people are aligned around a common cause, they are focused and reduce the uncertainty.
Accountability
The real job of the leaders is to translate vision and mission or the strategic direction to objectives, actions and accountabilities. To achieve accountability, sustainability, predictability, learning and renewal, leaders must bring discipline in their leadership process.
Deliveryand the efficiency will be at risk. So for the success of your organization, you need to make sure that your processes are focused on priority work, and that you are using much more effective techniques. This in turn will help you to boost the performances of your organization and you can also focus on improving operations for it.
Performance
As the leader, it is your duty to hire the right people for the right jobs. Only then it will show in the performance of the team and ultimately the organization. There is no one size that fits all and not everyone is made to fit in the same. In the 'Performance' step of organizational effectiveness, it is the responsibility of the leader to hire, train and retain the perfect applicants.
Measurement
The application of these business processes is only useful when you can measure the success it brings.
Delivery is an important aspect of the organizational effectiveness. Your products and services will only be successful if they are delivered to your customers. If your organization has long and complex processes, it will encounter errors
different fields of Animation. Citrus Ink Studios Pvt. Ltd. is an award-winning full-service animation studio focused on delivering the highest quality CG animation and VFX in India. Their goal is to give amazing production quality in the shortest possible time. They have worked with numerous leading brands in the advertising space such as the Coca Cola Company, Nestle, Minute Maid Juice, the History Channel, Honda, Panasonic, Horlicks, and the World Health Organization. Citrus Ink Studios Pvt. Ltd.is now working on transitioning into working on TV series and films. The initial challenges Initially, they had to face a lot of challenges. Their geographical location, lack of talent were the key challenges. In this industry just being new itself can pose a big challenge as it is difficult for clients and the talent to trust a new studio. Animation services were very new to Delhi in advertising and since advertising is always time-pressed and heavy on good quality it was difficult initially to gain the client’s Citrus Ink Studios Pvt. Ltd. is an innovative and creative animation company helping businesses reach out to more people through the highest quality CG animation and VFX. The master brain behind the company’s long-standing success is Vrinda Sood, CEO at the Citrus Inc. Studios Pvt. Ltd. The Company A ll of us know that animation, VFX, motion graphics play a vital role in the business landscape. Pictorial representation of anything hits faster than the verbal one. The human brain can process images up to 60000 times faster than the words. For the sake of storytelling about your brand, there is a need for these things a lot. Citrus Ink Studios Pvt. Ltd. started it off as a sole proprietor on Feb’2014 and was registered as a company – Citrus Ink Studios Pvt. Ltd. April 2019. In these 5 years of journey, Citrus Ink Studios has touched many milestones in Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. “ trust. People took a lot of time to trust the fact that small studios can deliver good work in the promised time.
The triggering point for the growth
Citrus Ink Studios Pvt. Ltd had been working for almost two years now. They had done a lot of ad films by then. Their film “PaperBoat” which was a short film format, branded story (promotional film for PaperBoat) just proved to the world that they can create and deliver international quality animation. The film’s animation quality and style caught the media attention and we were also compared by, a leading social networking blog to “Pixar” as the article mentioned “Pixar of India. The concept of the film belonged to a leading advertising agency in Delhi however the execution of the film had happened completely in their studio. This was a breakthrough and the film also won many awards at the International film festivals.
The industry will continue to upgrade itself in infrastructure and technology, however we cannot shy away from creative traditions. The traditional animation, posing structuring, the golden rules of
animation will always remain the same and will continue to guide and form the foundation of modern day animation and film making.
The graph of growth since inception
The company’s growth has been steady and it has been an upward graph. From a team of two in February 2014 they have now expanded to a team 40 in the last 5 years and are continuing to grow. Similarly, Citrus Ink Studio’s total Vrinda Sood CEO
revenues have also shown a steady upward rise and we hope to continue to work hard and double the numbers.
The reason behind the company’s long-standing success
The main reason for our company’s long-standing success is that the team is bound to each other and the company by a common thread - our love for animation. Vrinda Sood, CEO Says, “When we started in Delhi - we didn’t have leading industry personnel to start the company and to guide us through. I was fresh out of college for animation and so was my colleague. Together we were joined in by more animation loving individuals and our passion for animation led to the growth of this beautiful company. We continue to live our dream by doing better and delivering an even better output each time and it is this commitment towards our job that we have found continued success.”
The Services
Being in the animation industry does not leave you with any scope, but to upgrade yourself and embrace new technology. Where it is important for us to keep upgrading our infrastructure and software's it is also very critical for us to reduce our production time and effort for more effective and affordable outcomes. We continuously have to work around to figure out new ways of doing things that may require fewer manhours and machine time.
Citrus Ink Studios Pvt. Ltd.’s forte is animation and VFX. They are committed to a very high-quality animation and VFX and they continually strive to deliver and match their quality to the animations available worldwide. The team at Citrus Ink Studios Pvt. Ltd. think that they still need to work a lot in many areas, however they are happy that their quality of work is acknowledged wherever they exhibit show reel internationally. The quality of work definitely sets them apart from many other studios.
The only way to remain ahead in terms of our products and services is to remain consistent and deliver quality in the promised time. There is no other mantra for success. The differentiated output in good quality can resolve a lot of issues in the service industry, however coming up with your own IP which may be recognized again by the international audience will be a proud moment.
The professional experience
Vrinda has been able to establish a good connection with her clients, deliver the best to be able to have them come back to us without any hesitation. It has been great to be working with the best talent in the industry and help them realize their dreams while working together to achieve a common goal. The experience may have had many ups and downs, however all ups have taught us to be humble about our achievements and all the lows have pushed us to do better. The key achievements
In this journey, she has learned a lot, how to deliver in extreme pressure, how to work with a small team and deliver the unthinkable. The most important thing she has learned Is the micro and macromanagement of the business simultaneously, being an entrepreneur leaves with you little opportunity to delegate your responsibilities due to lack of resources to hire an HR to do the multiple tasks. At one point in business, she remembers working as the production coordination, CFO, accountant quality supervisor, etc. However, to reach where they are today being the most satisfying feeling. They have had some great releases in the last few years, garnering a tremendous response from the viewers and that makes it all worth it. Citrus Ink Studios’ Films for PVR, Paperboat, Hero, Honda, Arctic Fox, and some other international brands were well received and appreciated.
A Unique, creative-minded team
Giving an equal opportunity, respect, and creative freedom to the team has helped them a lot. They recognize each other’s passion for animation and the desire to do well and give their best - this is one thing which is common to all and hence easy to understand. By continuously doing better and working with different characters, environments and products without having any creative restriction have only brought the best out of each one. Constant vigilance is a strategy to fulfill an everlasting need to not get complacent. It’s important to be vigilant to not lose track once in a while and not get complacent while doing what we love to do and especially when we are doing it every day and earning a living out of it. It is also important to be vigilant of the environment in this competitive world.
Overwhelming client Experience
For Citrus Ink Studios Pvt. Ltd., each client has been special and they have only grown with them. There is a client in particular in America who really encouraged them to do better and he being from one of the best animation companies in the world has really taught them in the process and help them work on the finer nuances of the characters.
About the rat race in the market
There is a rat race in the market, but only the best rat wins. You have to be the best and that’s the only way to stay ahead. To win the race it is not important to be noticed, important is running. And as Steve Jobs once said “We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why else even be here?” So put that dent and get noticed. Stay up with innovation and quality and you’ll be good.
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IT Champs soon got a partnership with SAP, initially as an extended business member and later on as a value-added reseller for SAP licenses. IT Champs has been proud to serve several marquee customers like ABB, N. Ranga Rao & Sons of Cycle Agarbathies fame, AT&S, Bhoruka group of companies, locally in Mysore and several other customers globally like American University in Cairo, 31 Country locations of ABB, ONGC Videsh, Al-Muhaidib Group of companies in Saudi Arabia, Subex Limited, Manipal Global Education, to name a few. Antecedent Hurdles The initial challenges faced haven’t been very different from what most entrepreneurs do. Convincing the resources to join and that they can build a career by learning and getting certified in SAP, convincing the banks for credit facility against the inventory of software licenses which are intangible assets, convincing the prospects about the one ERP. Since then, there have been more than 250 consultants produced by IT Champs in the past decade and a half, many of whom have moved into very high positions in various organizations across the globe. I T Champs was founded in the year 2005 in Mysore, India by two technocrats, Rajesh & Prajakta Kutnikar, who had been working with large Organizations outside India for over a decade in the ERP Space. Rajesh Kutnikar, the founder & CEO worked for SAP as a Developer in the HR module and was instrumental in the rollout of several Country versions of HR solutions in the standard SAP system. He has been working with large consulting firms and a then, big-5 firm in the US overseeing SAP implementations at large customers like Microsoft, Starbucks, Continental General Tires, Brown-Forman Corporation, J. Crew, Paccar and many more. Alumni of PESIT, Bangalore, Rajesh Kutnikar wanted to establish a SAP consulting firm in Mysore as he came across many bright minds graduating from toprated engineering colleges in Mysore forced to migrate to larger cities for lack of opportunities locally. This was a small way of giving back to the native town of Mysore by creating opportunities for local talent to build a career in consulting in the World’s number There was a large SAP implementation and rollout being worked on by a multinational company. However, they weren't able to handle some complex requirements in Countries like Singapore and other APAC locations. SAP India, then referred them to CEO, Rajesh Kutnikar for expert consulting help. He traveled to Singapore and brought the rollout under complete control which impressed the customer very much and they entered into a direct contract with IT Champs. They also referred IT Champs to several other Country locations/branches which spurred rapid growth. investment required in buying the software to reap the benefits of enterprise-grade solutions, especially in conservative places like Mysore has been challenging. However, with time, businesses soon realised that the adaption of a stable and standard solution to run their business is inevitable to survive, let alone stay ahead of the competition. And the growth started… You must be the change you wish to see in the world. “ Expanding Technology Reach
Also, once they did a couple of local implementations, those customers started referring to other customers which helped the company immensely.
IT Champs’ customers and its commitment to them is the main reason behind the company’s longstanding success. Customers have always given repeat business apart from referrals to other customers. They see value in the company’s deep understanding of the software and the industry best practices which they bring to the table based on decades of collective experience across industry verticals. IT Champs never compromises on the quality of deliverables which has helped to win the trust of customers. The reason behind the longstanding success
Quality Offerings IT Champs has offices in Mysore and Bangalore where they offer the • End to end HR and payroll outsourced services with all statutory compliances for over 30 • SAP license sales for both on premise and cloud-based products • SAP Implementation and SLA based application maintenance and support services • Managed solutions for the entire enterprise by integrating several different systems with a suite of industry-leading products as well as home-grown portals and solutions which makes it simple and seamless for the customer to focus on their core business rather than worry about IT Support for their business following quality services • SAP Unlock – system audit and assessments to unlock the full potential of the ERP use for customers to maximize their returns on investment • SAPAcademy offering SAP Authorised training and global certification for aspiring consultants Rajesh Kutnikar Founder & CEO
Countries across the globe.
IT Champs focuses on delivering value through end to end automation to customers so that they can operate with better efficiency. Company’s USP is, they first study the business processes and the manual activities performed across various departments and without any prejudice of fitting their process into standard products, they identify the gaps and then do a detailed analysis with a focus on automating manual processes, transactional entries, interfaces between various systems so that the errors are minimized and efficiencies are gained.
Mr Rajesh says, “We would like to grow to serve more customers globally. We have plans to further our presence in the middle east and Africa region through our partner network. Our ultimate objective is to put Mysore on the World map for quality of service and trust. We
are also aligning with a large organization with a presence in North America to offer our services in the USA and Canada.”
Based on long-standing experience with HR systems globally, they believe that they can take away the pains of dealing with mundane transactional processing and statutory compliances by providing a proven and effective solution at a very reasonable cost. This will enable the in-house HR teams to focus on providing more strategic value to their organization by streamlining recruitment processes, learning and development of the workforce for better productivity, and so forth.
People at IT Champs have invested all of their experience across the globe and the best practices they have gathered from the various projects executed in developing own Human Resource management product called iEmpPower. This is an easy to use employee portal with not only employee, manager and administrator self-service functionalities, but also enables employees to track and regularize their attendance and absence data, view their payslips and maintain their tax-saving investment data and so on.
Rajesh Kutnikar, the founder & CEO After completing a Bachelor’s in Engineering Degree from PESIT Bangalore, and a brief job stint as a developer in Integra Microsystems, Bangalore, he was selected as a part of a team to work for SAP as a Developer in the HR module. They were a team of 10 developers recruited from India amongst hundreds of applicants in the year 1995 and were sent to Singapore and Germany for training since there was no presence of SAP in India. The team was responsible to build country versions of the HR module in the standard SAP system for the south-east Asian countries. After a couple of years, he was promoted as quality coordinator for four Countries and was to relocate to Melbourne.
In 1998, he got an opportunity to work on the consulting side which would give him an option to be client-facing. He moved to the US to take up this job. While in the US, he worked on several project implementations for clients like Continental General Tires, BrownForman Corporation, Microsoft, Starbucks, J. Crew, Cadence Design Systems, and others. While executing and managing these projects, he had an opportunity to be part of medium to large consulting organizations, one of which was a big 5 consulting firm.
Mr Rajesh stated, “One book that I love to read over and over again is The Secret by Rhonda Byrne. One person whom I admire most is our Honourable Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modiji. He has shown the commitment to the development of our great nation with amazing grit and determination. There are many inspiring stories about rags to riches and business successes. Some of the better ones I have come across are that of Warren Buffet, Steve Jobs, Jack Daniel, and that of Sri. Dhirubhai Ambani.”
The key achievements Steadily growing the number of customers, projects and competencies year on year. Managing resources and skills effectively to keep up the utilization as high as possible, managing relationships with customers and partner companies to get new leads and references, setting up of processes and internal controls, mentoring and developing leadership skills in managers, are all part of achievements in the past decade and a half.
IT Champs always strives to provide all to differentiate themselves from their competitors, small and large. They also work with the lifestyle constraints of the employees to provide flexibilities to manage their personal and professional time without compromising family and nonwork related responsibilities. They are always on the lookout for bettering the benefits and infrastructure provided to the employees to ensure that their time and focus can remain on the learning and work rather than other issues. The environment at the company
In any entrepreneurial journey, with so many factors playing on your mind, it is so easy to get caught up in day to day operational issues and it is very easy to lose track of your bigger goal. Hence, there is a need for constant vigilance, a regular process of introspection and sanity check of where we are headed and is that what we set out to do in the first place.
We need to always aim at bettering ourselves and keep improving the level of knowledge, service, efficiency and overall efficacy to stay ahead of the competition. We just need to keep things simple and straight forward to keep winning!
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NAGPUR The Orange City
GPUR The Orange City
It came under British influence in 1817 AD. In 1854, Lord Dlhauji seized the princely state of Nagpur as heir to the King of Nagpur and made it part of the British Empire and auctioned the precious gems and ornaments of the dynasty there. Presently, a fort and other bhavnadi of the reign of the Bhonsle dynasty are located in Nagpur. In 1861, it was made the capital of the Central Province, which remained until 1956 AD. almost in the center of India. It was founded by the Gond King Bakht Buland in the early eighteenth century. Nagpur was a princely state of British India. Which, during Peshwa Bajirao I, Raghuji Bhonsle made his capital. After 1761 AD, Bhonsle of Nagpur woke up to rule it independently. An economic hub of northeastern Maharashtra MIHAN the industrial sector in After independence, the state reconstruction made Nagpur the capital of Maharashtra. Nagpur is a major center of nationalist associations. Nagpur is named from the Nag River. This river passes through the old Nagpur region. There are a river and a serpent on the sign of the Nagpur Municipal Corporation. Nagpur is famous for oranges and is also known as Santra city. And due to the presence of a snake in Nagpur, Nagpur is named Nagpur. Nagpur city is world-famous for Oranges. Oranges from Nagpur and nearby areas get exported in many countries around the world. Being forefront in the business of oranges, Nagpur got its unique identity, The City of Oranges. agpur, a metro city in the state of Maharashtra is also known as ‘Orange City’. Nagpur is the thirdlargest city in Maharashtra after Mumbai and Pune. It is also called as the ‘Tiger Capital’ of India. The Gond dynasty established Nagpur and afterward the Bhosales of the Maratha Empire had assembled their kingdom. With the increasing infrastructure and fast developments, Nagpur is set to be a metro city soon. The city of Nagpur was founded by the Gond state. Then he joined the Maratha Empire after King Bhonsle. In the 19th century, the British made Nagpur the capital of Madhya Pradesh and Berar. Nagpur is also the winter capital of Maharashtra, and the fast developing and the third-largest city in the state. According to the 2011 census, the population of the city was 24 lakhs 5 thousand 421. The geographical area of the city is the 13th largest among the country’s urban areas. Recently, Nagpur has been recognized as the cleanest city in India and the second greenest city. In 2002, the city of Nagpur completed 300 years of its founding. Nagpur city is located in the state of Maharashtra in south-western India. Geographically it is located Nagpur is the 13th largest city in India and 114th in the world. About half of the population of Nagpur speaks Marathi. This city is very famous for its oranges. Therefore, Nagpur is also called the city of oranges. Recently, Nagpur city has received the award for the ‘Cleanest and Most Beautiful City’ in the country. Nagpur contributes a large amount in the economy of India. Infosys has started its facility’s construction in SEZ. AIR India also has its facility in SEZ constructed by Boeing. Nagpur is also called as a northeastern Maharashtra’s IT hub. Major IT giants like TCS, Tech Mahindra, HCL, Global Logic, Persistent Systems, Hexaware and etc. run their operations smoothly in various IT parks in the city. Nagpur is a place where all the communities with different languages, cultures, and traditions live together in a healthy and peaceful atmosphere. One should visit Nagpur to explore different geographical, economic and cultural aspects of India. The food sector in Nagpur has always been in talks worldwide as it is a home for many food brands. An Indian world famous snacks company Haldiram’s is from Nagpur. An ice cream company named Dinshaws, a spices company Suruchi International are originated from Nagpur. Ayurvedic Products from India are helping the world for better health without any adulteration. Nagpur is a home for such big brands as Vicco and Baidyanath. N 34 January 2020
Navegaon Dam Must Visit Places in Nagpur Upshot Metros
Sitabuldi Fort Ramtek
After forests in Nagpur, Navegaon Dam is the most popular thing in Vidarbha. Kolu Patel Kohli is appreciated for building this dam. The dam, which is more than 300 years old, has a sanctuary called 'Dr. Salim is a bird sanctuary.
Sitabuldi Fort is an important monument in Nagpur city. This fort is one of the most important landmarks in the history of India. This fort is in the middle of the double (twin) mountains. The fort was built by a British officer during the uprising of 1857. The fort is built on the memories of those who lost their lives in this revolt.
The fort of Ramtek is famous for the legend associated with it. As stated in the legend, Shri Ram along with his wife Sita and brother Laxman stayed in this place to rest. This temple is more than six centuries old. Sitting here, Kalidas wrote his epic 'Meghdoot'.
Diksha Bhumi Dragon Palace
Thousands of pilgrims and tourists visit the land every year for initiation. There is a Buddhist stupa that is 120 feet long. Hundreds of Dalit people have come to this place. He accepted Babasaheb Ambedkar as his leader and embraced Buddhism. This day is celebrated as 'Ashok Vijay Dashami'.
Dragon Palace is a large, iconic temple that covers 10 acres of land. In this temple, a large statue of Lord Buddha is placed on the first floor of the hall. This temple is located in the satellite city of Nagpur, which is known as 'Comp Tea'. It is also known as the 'Lotus Temple'.
