It is indeed heartwarming to see the kind of responses that the story generated.One should mention that,to start with, getting a consensus on the need for a new capital city or even for a new satellite city was not easy.Deciding on the actual location was the next big issue.And then to get the land !With a powerful land mafia and sundry gold diggers creatingall kinds of hurdles !The people of Raipur and the much maligned politicians need to be complemented for finally putting behind them all real and imagined controversies and supporting Naya Raipur.Some compromises including settling for an innocuose name like Naya Raipur could probably be not helped but the city will become the pride of Chhattisgarh in a few years.There are no doubt other issues to address. Like how to give a distinct identity to the new city, how to take care of environmental problems,how to ensure that we can make it aesthetic and at the same time inclusive(housing for the poor especially the migrant labour needs to be addressed)and many others.Readers may like to convey some of their concerns and suggestions to pjoyoommen@gmail.com P.Joy Oommen,Chairman Naya Raipur Development Authority, Raipur.
RE:Naya Raipur
by on Apr 30, 2007 02:02 PM Permalink
To Mr. P.Joy Oommen, The Chairman Naya Raipur Development Authority NRDA, Raipur (C.G.)
R/ Sir,
This is Kunjan Gupta here from Bangalore working as a Senior Software Engineer in a reputed company. I have gone through the news of setting up new Raipur capital along with an IT SEZ park in Raipur. I have also visited the new Raipur site itself at Mandir Hausod but not seen any work in progress.
Can you pls let me know when the work will start on the grounds instead of files? I am more concerned about IT SEZ Park in Raipur, so that the thousands of Software engineers like me who belong to Chhattisgarh but are working outside of Chhattisgarh because presently there is no IT Company in Chhattisgarh. If IT SEZ will be setup in Raipur, we will think to migrate to our native place. Pls try to implement this project as soon as possible and also create such an environment in whole Raipur %u2013 Chhattisgarh, which can attract Knowledge Industries (like IT, ITES, BPO, BIOTECH).
Pls see the progress of south Indian states like Karnataka, AP Tamilnadu, Kerala and Maharastra states due to Knoweldge industries. Currently, in these states tier-I cities are saturated and now the government and companies setting up IT Park in tier-II cities like Mysore, Belgam, Hubali etc. These states are growing very fast as compared to Chhattisgarh. We should get motivated from Oddisa and Rajasthan, which has setup IT Park in Bhuvaneshwar and Jaipur in very less time and companies like Infosys, Satyam and Mind Tree have established their big offices.
IT industry reduces unemployment very fast and also helps other industries to grow like Airlines, education and hotel industries indirectly.
Pls try to understand our feelings about Chhattisgarh development and let us know when IT SEZ project will be started and would be finished.
Pls do let me know if I can do anything in this direction.
RE:Naya Raipur by on Apr 30, 2007 02:02 PM To Mr. P.Joy Oommen, The Chairman Naya Raipur Development Authority NRDA, Raipur (C.G.)
R/ Sir,
I am Tarun Das,working for a renowned software company in pune,I totally believe that raipur has the full ptential to be more aggressive and better than Pune IT development due to huge natural resources bestowed on us,please set up the Software IT parks in Naya Raipur so that people like can plan to come back
