Cuttack is known as the Millennium City as well as the Silver City due to its history of 1000 years and famous silver filigree works.
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42 Facts About Cuttack
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Name Cuttack is an anglicised form of Kataka which is derived from Sanskrit meaning capital, fort and military establishment or a cantonment.
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The term "Attock te Cuttack" was first used to describe the extent of the Maratha Empire after they conquered Cuttack in 1750 and Attock in 1758.
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Cuttack is located at and has an average elevation of 36 metres .
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Cuttack is referred to as a city with Baaban Bazaar, Teppan Galee i e this is the city of 52 markets and 53 streets which is told by people of Odisha for the largeness of this city.
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Cuttack was said to have had miraculous powers, and his fame reached far and wide.
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Cuttack has been the home to many notable personalities who have contributed a lot towards the culture and history of modern Odisha.
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Cuttack had been the centre of art and literature in the past.
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Kala Vikash Kendra in Cuttack is another premier institution for dance, drama and music in Odisha.
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Cuttack has been the seat of various literary activities and many notable writers and poets lived and worked here.
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The gender ratio of Cuttack City was 997 per 1000 males, for children 916 girls per 1000 boys.
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Cuttack City is divided into three constituencies which are represented at the State Legislative Assembly viz.
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Cuttack-Sadar is represented by Chandra Sarathi Behera whereas Barabati-Cuttack is represented by Er.
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Cuttack is the judicial capital of Odisha as the High Court is situated here.
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Cuttack has the largest number of NGOs, charitable organisations, orphanages, old age and destitute homes than anywhere else in the state.
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Cuttack is famous for its silver filigree works and only because of these works it is known as the silver city of India.
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Cuttack is famous for its handicraft works using cow and mostly Buffaloes horn.
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Cuttack has only one retail store for horn items named Utkal Gaurab Madhusudhan Horn Work.
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Cuttack occupies a very significant place in the logistics map of the country.
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The number of medium- and small-scale industries concentrated around Cuttack is by far the largest among the cities in the state.
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Cuttack, being the largest business hub of the state is the nodal point of trade and transport.
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At present Cuttack has six local radio stations broadcasting on FM, including two from AIR.
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Major hospitals in and around Cuttack are District Headquarters Hospital, Shanti Memorial Hospital, HCG Panda Cancer Hospital, Ashwini Hospital, Sun Hospital, Sabarmati General Hospital, Dr Agarwal's Eye Hospital, Heritage Healthcare Hospital, Rotary Eye Hospital and Melvin Jones Lion's Eye Hospital among others.
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Schools in Cuttack are either run by the Cuttack Municipal CorC or by private trusts and individuals.
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Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Post Graduate Institute of Paediatrics, Cuttack, Orissa is based on manifold historic backgrounds situated on the bank of river Kathjori amidst the lush greenery.
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Cuttack has an Air Base named Charbatia Air Base for the exclusive use for light exercises and on and off training purposes of the Indian Air Force.
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Cuttack is a major junction connecting all the major parts of the state.
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The bus terminus at Cuttack is located at Badambadi, and is one of the largest bus terminus in India, and thousands of private and government buses ply to hundreds of destinations every day.
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Cuttack is more strongly connected to Bhubaneswar and Dhenkanal due to the addition of two new bridges namely Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Setu on Kathjodi and Utkal Gourab Madhusudan Setu on Mahanadi.
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Cuttack Junction is one of the stations on the Howrah-Chennai main line of the East Coast Railway and falls under the Khurda Road division.
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The Housing and Urban Development Department has taken up the issue for exploring Monorail system in Cuttack to make it the first city in the state to have Monorail service.
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Cuttack has a branch of Sports Authority of India training centres, which was established on 26 March 1987 under Sports Hostel Scheme in the Barabati Sports Complex.
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Cuttack has some very good sporting grounds like Nimpur Grounds, Bidanasi Grounds, Sunshine Grounds, Ravenshaw Grounds, SCB Medical Grounds, BOSE Grounds which are the venues for annual state cricket and football championships and some of which are often used as additional venues for Ranji Trophy and Santosh Trophy matches.
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Apart from it, Cuttack has hosted matches in 1987 Cricket World Cup and 1996 Cricket World Cup.
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Cuttack takes pride in being the birthplace of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, the prominent Indian freedom-fighter and founder of Azad Hind Fauj.
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The old jail complex of Cuttack near Ganga Mandir tank and Dargha Bazar was a colonia-period jail cellular jail where many notable freedom fighters were imprisoned during the Swaraj movement.
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Old timers of Cuttack call it the Goshala, but it was originally a Dharamshala for the pilgrims of the old Jagannath Sadak.
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