Raipur

Raipur is located near the centre of a large plain, sometimes referred as the "rice bowl of India", where hundreds of varieties of rice are grown.[11] The Mahanadi River flows to the east of the city of Raipur, and the southern side has dense forests. The Maikal Hills rise on the north-west of Raipur; on the north, the land rises and merges with the Chota Nagpur Plateau, which extends north-east across Jharkhand state. On the south of Raipur lies the Deccan Plateau.

Raipur has a tropical wet and dry climate, temperatures remain moderate throughout the year, except from March to June, which can be extremely hot. The temperature in April–May sometimes rises above 48 °C (118 °F). These summer months also have dry and hot winds. The city receives about 1,300 millimetres (51 in) of rain, mostly in the monsoon season from late June to early October. Winters last from November to January and are mild, although lows can fall to 5 °C (41 °F) making it reasonably cold.

Raipur city has a Municipal corporation. It was initially established by the British on 17th May, 1867, it was then named Raipur Municipal committee.[14] It was upgraded to Raipur Municipal Corporation in the year 1973.[15] The area of the municipal corporation is 226 sq km (87 sq mi).[1][16] RMC is governed under the guidelines mentioned in the Chhattisgarh Municipalities Act, 1961.[16] As per 2011 Census of India urban agglomeration population in Raipur, Durg-Bhilai was 3,186,632. The three urban cities of Raipur, Bhilai and Durg in West central of Chhattisgarh together creates Raipur-Bhilai-Durg Tri City Metro area.[17]

The functions under the municipal corporation are construction of health centers, educational institutes, schools and periodic maintenance of the houses.[18] In addition to taking the responsibility of constructing basic civic infrastructure, flyovers and roads, it is also developing recreational centers such as museums, community halls and parks. Along with basic civic infrastructure, flyovers, and roads.[18]

The executive committee consists of the Commissioner, Deputy commissioner, city health officers, executive engineers, zone commissioners and other staff.[19] The current mayor of Raipur is Shri. Saurabh Kumar (I.A.S).[20] The current mayor is Aijaz Dhebar from INC. The Mayor in council consist of the Mayor who is the ex officio chairperson of the MIC. Among elected councillors the mayor elects them to the council.[19] There are 70 wards and 8 zones within the Raipur Municipal Corporation.[18]The zonal ward committees are headed by chairpersons who are elected by ward councillors of the respective zone.[21]

The recent municipal elections was held on 21st December, 2019. The political parties in majority at the municipal level are BJP and INC. The estimated municipal budget 2017-2018 Budget is Rs. 26,126,67. Key revenue sources are tax income, Fees and charges, Sanitation charges, Grants and donations and Capital income.[22]

The city is a part of Raipur District with Dr. S. Bharathi Dasan, IAS/Collector & DM.[23] The collector heads the district administration department.[24]The upper collector, deputy collector and joint deputy assist the Collector. Other governing agencies that are active in the city of Raipur is the Urban Administration And Development, Chhattisgarh.[25]

Raipur Master Plan 2021 recognizes the need for planned development to take the pressure off the downtown core and meet the need for green spaces and bodies of water in that area. The plan calls for dense housing in new subdivisions on the outskirts and well-planned high-rise commercial and industrial development along the NH-6 as well as on the north side of the city.[26]

Raipur is a Lok Sabha/Parliamentary constituency in Central Chhattisgarh of Chhattisgarh and is located in Central India.[27] Raipur Lok Sabha seat is unreserved. Mr.Sunil Kumar Soni, BJP is Raipur City MP.[28] There are three MLA constituency in Raipur city and one constituency for Raipur Rural. The respective MLAs of the three constituency are Raipur City South MLA is Mr. Brijmohan Agrawal, BJP, for Raipur City North it is Mr. Kuldeep Juneja, INC and for Raipur City West it is Mr. Vikas Upadhyay, INC. [29]

The superintendent of Engineers Executive Engineers, the team of Engineers and staff responsible for the related activities of the road department head the Public works department.[14] The respective functions are Planning and designing of road storm water drain, maintenance of roads and streets, maintain gardens and parks as well as resurfacing the road and repairing pot hole and bad patches.[30]

In the bus transport system of Raipur City there is a total number of 157 Buses plying within the city.[31]

The city electricity is supplied by Chhattisgarh State Power Distribution Company Limited. Fire and Emergency services were set up in the year 2016 to protect fire incidents in the state.[32] As per the directions of the government, the fire Station of the urban body are being taken under fire and emergency services.[33]

The existing source of raw water is from Kharun river and about 170 MLD water is treated on a daily basis is 275 mld which is the treatment capacity of the plant. The per capita water supply in the city of Raipur is 135 lpcd. There is a water supply connection to a total of 50000 households. Along with water from the Kharun River (27 MLD), another source of water is ground water and the capacity utilized is 22 MLD. There is a total of 1133 handpumps in the city.

There is a lack in the sewerage systems of Raipur City. The data for households with a Sewerage Network is unavailable.[34] But the number of households with Septic tanks are 1,44,882 and the households without any outlets for toilets is 5649.[34] The city has no separate drainage system nor any sewer lines. There is a separate storm water drainage system are laid as per requirement.[34]

The waste management in the city is entrusted with the city health officer, the In charge health officer, zonal health officer and the team of sanitary supervisors and ward supervisors.[35] A total of 356490 households have been successful with source segregation and are covered by door to door collection.[36] Raipur's major waste disposal site is the Sarona site, which is 12km away from city center. [36]

Raipur Junction railway station is the primary railway station of the city which is situated on the Howrah-Nagpur-Mumbai line of the Indian Railways (via Bhusawal, Nagpur, Gondia, Bilaspur, Rourkela, Kharagpur) and is connected with most major cities. It is categorised in A-1 category of railway stations by the Indian Railways. Some small railway stations are also present here for local trains like Sarona, Saraswati Nagar and WRS Colony railway stations.They also lie on same Howrah-Nagpur-Mumbai line.

Swami Vivekananda Airport or Mana Airport is primary airport serving the state of Chhattisgarh. The airport is located, 15 km (9.3 mi) south of Raipur near Naya Raipur.

• Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Raipur
• Hidayatullah National Law University
• National Institute of Technology (NIT) Raipur
• All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Raipur
• International Institute of Information Technology, Naya Raipur
• National Institute of Malaria Research

• Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University
• Indira Gandhi Agricultural University
• Kushabhau Thakre Patrakarita Avam Jansanchar University
• Ayush & Health Sciences University Chhattisgarh
• Chhattisgarh Kamdhenu Vishwavidyalaya
• Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University, Bhilai

• Amity University
• ITM University
• MATS University
• ICFAI University
• Kalinga University

• Government Engineering College (GEC)
• Rungta College of Engineering and Technology (RCET)
• Rungta Engineering College (REC)
• Raipur Institute of Technology
• Disha Institute of Management and Technology
• Shri Shankaracharya Institute of Professional Management and Technology (SSIPMT)
• Pragati College of Engineering and Management

• Holy Cross Senior Secondary School Kapa
• Rajkumar College, established 1882
• Ryan International School
• Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
• Krishna Public School
• Delhi Public School

Many local news channels are telecast from Raipur in Hindi:

Many national and local newspapers are published from Raipur both in Hindi and English:

Raipur city has five FM Radio Stations -