Raipur is the capital city of the Indian state of Chhattisgarh.
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14 Facts About Raipur
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Raipur is ranked 7th in the Ease of Living Index 2019 and 7th in the Municipal Performance Index 2020, both by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs .
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Raipur is regarded as one of the best cities to do business.
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Raipur district was once part of Southern Kosal and considered to be under the Maurya Empire.
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Raipur had later been the capital of the Haihaya Kings, controlling the traditional forts of Chhattisgarh for a long time.
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Raipur district became a part of Madhya Pradesh on 1 November 1956 and subsequently became a part of Chhattisgarh on 1 November 2000 with Raipur becoming the capital of the new state.
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Raipur is located near the centre of a large plain, sometimes referred to as the "rice bowl of India", where hundreds of varieties of rice are grown.
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Raipur, being the capital city of Chhattisgarh, has attracted large amounts of industrial development.
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Raipur is regarded as one of the best cities to do business.
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Chhattisgarh State Industrial Development Corporation will be developing a new industrial area in Tilda near Raipur to provide facilities for small and medium industries.
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Some major and famous roads in Raipur are National Highway, National Highway, Great Eastern Road, Pandri Road, Baloda Bazar Road, Nardha Raipur Road, VIP Road, and Atal Path Expressway.
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Newly constructed Bus Stand Sri Balaji Swami Trust Sri Dudhadhari Math Inter State Bus Terminal or ISBT Raipur is located at Ravanbhantha, and is the main Bus Stand of the city.
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Raipur is well-connected, having daily direct flights to Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam, Kolkata, Bangalore, Pune, Chennai, Goa, Lucknow, Indore, Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Srinagar, Nagpur, Thiruvananthapuram, Prayagraj, Jharsuguda and Jagdalpur, operated by Air India, IndiGo and Vistara.
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Raipur has become a big educational hub of Chhattisgarh due to the presence of many institutes of national importance in engineering, management, medical and law, including IIM, NIT, AIIMS, Hidayatullah National Law University, CIPET, Raipur, NIPER and IIIT.
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