Travel to Rourkela, a place that is better known as the steel plant of India. Your Rourkela tour will take you on to the world of discovery.
Rourkela Steel Plant is the oldest of all steel plants in India. Rourkela hapĀ pened to be an unknown village in the past. 219 m high Rourkela in the hilly plateau of Chhotanagpur is world-famous today. Rourkela is a large industrial town surrounded by a range of hills and encircled by rivers. The township has a beautiful park, a small zoo, a lake, aquarium, deer park and an industrial museum. The Asia's highest Human statue, about 22 m high stands within a temple complex at Hanuman Vatika. On the outskirts of Rourkela is a picturesque pilgrimage spot on the confluence of two rivers. About 28 km is the dam at Mandira offering boating facilities and one other at Pitamahal, 16 km away.
Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) of Rourkela is the one of the very few technology universities, which produces toppers in the fields of technology and medicine.
Must Visit Places in Rourkela
There are few places of tourist attractions near Rourkela which includes Ved Vyas and Mandira Dam. Ved Vyas is considered as a sacred place for Oriyas and is considered as the birth place of Ved Vyas, the author of The Mahabharata. The Ved Vyas is very famous for Shiva Ratri Festival. Ved Vyas temple is situated near the confluence of three rivers Shankh, Koel and Saraswati to form River Brahmani. The Indira Gandhi Park of Rourkela is the largest park in Orissa. There is a Hanumaan Batika place also in Rourkela. The height of the statue of Lord Hanuman is around 72 feet and is certainly proud of Rourkela.
Things to see
Pitamahal
Khandadhar
Junagarh
