page_title: Rourkela
section_title: Economy
hierarchical_section_title: Rourkela / Economy
caption_attribution_description: English: Adding another beautiful landmark to the steel city, Mr.S.N.Singh, MD, Rourkela Steel Plant(RSP) inaugurated ‘Suraksha Path’ a splendid steel-made foot over bridge the first of its kind in the state in front of the Indira Gandhi Park on 17th May.
context_page_description: Rourkela is a planned city located in the northern part of Odisha, India. The city is also the headquarter of Sundargarh district. It is the third-largest Urban Agglomeration in Odisha. It is situated about 328 kilometres north of state capital Bhubaneswar and is surrounded by a range of hills and encircled by rivers - Koel, Sankha, and Brahmani. The city is also popularly known as Ispat Nagar and also as the Steel City of Odisha. It has one of the largest steel plants of the Steel Authority of India Limited known as Rourkela Steel Plant. It also has one of the National Institutes of Technology of the country. The city has been selected as smart city in the third phase of the smart city list on 20 September 2016. Among all the 27 city list Rourkela ranked 12th position on merit basis. Every year, on 3 March Rourkela Day is celebrated. Rourkela has been declared India's Fastest Moving City. Rourkela is third largest city of Odisha State
context_section_description: Rourkela is the industrial capital of Odisha (Formerly Orissa). Rourkela, with a population of 6 lakhs and the first place in India to house the 1.8 million ton integrated steel plant, joins the IT world through STPI. The city is popularly known as the engineering heartland of India. STPI has already set up a dedicated earth station in Rourkela. It is set to welcome the IT entrepreneurs for their uprising destination. It is truly cosmopolitan in nature and enjoys high-class international infrastructure, modern amenities, and skilled professionals for software development and exports. Odisha (Formerly Orissa) being the latest addition in E-Governance applications, creates enthusiasm for software development companies to explore the domestic business also. Location-wise it is truly a hill station, with integrated infrastructure such as rail, road, air, abundant natural resources such as land, water, and power, rich pool of skilled people, top-rated social and civic infrastructure for reposing, and Universal friendliness. These factors have attracted many industrialists outside the state to choose Rourkela as their destination. Rourkela enjoys the pride of being the knowledge hub in the state due to its academic records. The geographical location is another blessing. In history, it has never faced any sort of natural calamity whatsoever, except for some heavy rainfall. The above-mentioned factors along with the most stabilised electrical power supply, good administration, and industrial nature offer ample opportunity for Rourkela to impress the IT World.
  As Rourkela has been a Steel City and Big Core Sector in case of Iron, Steel, heavy blast furnace, etc. there are a number of industries in and around Rourkela such as Larsen & Toubro Fabrication Plant in Kansbahal.
  OCL Industrial Township in Rajgangpur and many others in Kalunga Industrial Estate.
caption: New Suraksha Path bridge Near Indira Gandhi Park
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