Economic Times on Jharkhand and Orissa
INVESTMENTS and INVESTMENT PLANS, Metals and alloys, MINES and MINERALS, TOI, Economic Times July 20th. 2009, 3:29pmEconomic Times has an article each on Jharkhand and Orissa’s mineral reserves and the current industrial climates and mineral policies of both states. The two articles are:
Following are some additional comparison between both states:
- Orissa being a coastal state has coast related opportunities (ports) as well as problems (hurricanes, floods)
- Jharkhand has more larger metro areas than Orissa. Following are some population numbers.
- Jharkhand’s top 4 metro areas are: Ranchi (1.07 m), Jamshedpur (1.25m), Dhanbad (1.21 m) and Bokaro (592k).
- Asansol (West Bengal) with population of 1.3m borders Jharkhand (59km from Dhanbad) and together with Durgapur (544 K, 40 kms from Asansol) is being built as the second largest metro area of West Bengal.
- Orissa’s top 4 metro areas are: Bhubaneswar-Cuttack metro (1.67m in Gazeteer, 1.9m in CPD estimate), Rourkela city (551K in gazeteer, 1.1 m unofficially estimated in metro area), Berhampur metro (514K in CPD estimate), and Sambalpur city (258K in Gazeteer).
- At present Orissa is a bigger knowledge and education hub.
- Orissa has more well known tourist locations.
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July 20th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Sir,
Ranchi and jamshedpur are larger in area and population if compared alone with bbsr.why we are including cuttack whenever we are trying to note down the population or area of bbsr alone.If cuttack has been included then why people have not yet accepted this logic in cuttack.It makes no sense to take two cities together and make it one.My request to get the axact population of bbsr city and not by including both bbsr and cuttack together.
July 20th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
Actually we should be doing more of what I am doing. Population should be counted based on metropolitan areas. The population numbers of a metropolitan areas are crucial in determining many things. For example, the JNNURM scheme chooses areas to fund based on metropolitan population and because we did not put BBSR+CTC as a single metropolitan area we lost out funding for Cuttack. Our effort should be to create larger metropolitan areas and if two towns/cities are nearby then the gap needs to be filled to make them a single metropolitan area. Other examples of where population of metropolitan area matters is where a transportation system (bus, light rail, metro) will go. Kochi is planning for a metro but when Sreedharan came to Bhubaneswar, he said it is too early for metro in Bhubaneswar. However, Kochi metro population is less than Bhubaneswar-Cuttack metro population. Similarly, when companies think of locating outlets they look at population numbers. There again, using metro area numbers is advantageous.
If the worry is the name of Cuttack getting sidelined, we can call it Bhubaneswar-Cuttack metropolitan area; but we must talk more in terms of metropolitan area and the overall population and try our best to fill the gap. That is why you will see the right side of http://www.orissalinks.com/orissagrowth/ has a category Metro/Cluster.
I want more and more people to think in terms of that. That is how the world thinks and markets itself and it is therefore to our great advantage to put Bhubaneswar and Cuttack together.
July 20th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
In this, one thing to note is that older (say before 1900) cities and towns were densely packed, more because there were no cars/autos so everything had to be not far away. Now the cities and metropolitan areas grow more in area (horizontally) and less vertically.
So to have larger metro population in Orissa the metro areas of towns/cities have to expand and merge with nearby ones.
July 21st, 2009 at 9:02 am
sir, why don’t you take the population of Berhampur metropolitan area instead of old Berhampur Municipality area? Greater Berhampur region comprises of Berhampur+ Gopalpur+ Chatrapur+ 23 peri-urban panchayats (even there are demands to include Hinjili and Digapahandi areas in Berhampur Mahanagar). I am not in a position to tell the exact population of Greater Berhampur region, but BMC and BDA officials put the figure at 5.5 lakh as of Dec 2008. As you must be aware the central Govt. has announced that cities with more than 5 lakh population will automatically come under NURM. Had the true population figures of Berhampur city been there, its inclusion under NURM would have much easier. Now one has to wait till 2011 to get the real population figures.
July 21st, 2009 at 9:08 am
forgot to mention that Berhampur is the fastest growing city in Orissa after Bhubaneswar, with a decadel population growth of 47%.
July 21st, 2009 at 9:29 am
I would love to use that number. Please send me a link where I can find the metropolitan number for Berhampur.
July 21st, 2009 at 11:01 am
According to a news report in Hindu the Berhampur Metropolitian area has a population of 5,13,760. The report says…”The present CDP however would provide urban development plan for the area now under the BDA which includes areas of urban bodies like Berhampur, Gopalpur and Chatrapur and 139 villages. This would be part of the greater Berhampur with a vision of development for next 30 years. The CDP would comprise a total area of 317 square km having a population of 5,13,760 persons.”….
Following are the Links: http://www.hindu.com/2009/06/29/stories/2009062950490200.htm
http://india.gov.in/allimpfrms/alldocs/2430.pdf
http://orissagov.nic.in/govtpress/pdf/2008/2382.pdf
July 21st, 2009 at 11:08 am
Thanks very much. I will write a whole article based on that. You may contact the world gazetter at
http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gcis&lng=en&dat=80&geo=-104&srt=npan&col=aohdq&msz=1500&pt=a&va=x&srt=pnan with the numbers. Many people look there.
July 21st, 2009 at 11:13 am
Alok: Do you have pointers, or can you dig pointers, for the population numbers for Rourkela metropolitan area? I think it should be 800K+.
July 21st, 2009 at 11:18 am
The site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rourkela_Airport mentions Rourkela’s unofficial population as 11 lakhs. But we need a more authentic source.
July 27th, 2009 at 4:43 am
Well i m sorry ..i dont have any at the moment..but still m trying to get one.Will let you know once i get the same..Thanks for your concern.I appreciate that.
July 27th, 2009 at 5:01 am
Hi,The world gazzetteer doesnot include places like rourkela,sambalpur in orissa.Even the data given about the populations is not 100% correct.For Eg- Bhilai is more populated than jamshedpur,raipur and siliguri.Even jammu and dehradun have less population than Bhilai.Weired data !
July 27th, 2009 at 5:21 am
Hi,The exact population of rourkela including the steel township stands at 777,122 which is just under Raipur(795,104)standing at position number 57.
July 27th, 2009 at 10:24 am
The world gazzetteer does include places like Rourkela and Sambalpur. (May spell them differently.) But does not have the population of the whole metro area. That is the best and most up-to-date data I can find in one place.