Bhilai
About the city
There are important companies like ACC, BSBK Private Limited and Bhilai Engineering Corporation Ltd which started as ancillary of BSP but off late have become international entities in themselves. Tirupati Steel Traders, one of the leading suppliers of structural steel items, is also situated at Bhilai.During 1990's and 2000's Bhilai has emerged as an excellent educational centre in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, both at school and college level. Six enginnering colleges have come up in and around the city contributing to the educational needs in technological fields for the new developing state. Bhilai Institute of Technology, Durg is the pioneer of all the engineering colleges in the state. It is the only college in the state which is offering Six Post Graduate and Six undergraduate courses in professional studies.
Bhilai is divided among Each sector has a community hall, schools, health centers and market. Sports facilities are also maintained there are two man stadiums Pant stadium and Jayanti Stadium. Many Outdoor stadiums are also there for handball, and ball badminton. Main market places are Power House Market, Supela Market, Civic center, Aakash Ganga, 'A' market.
Jawahar Lal Nehru Hospital and Apollo Hospital are two of the most prestigious hospital of the state with research work. mahesh medical store an ayurvedic pharmacy a market which is having widest range of ayurvedic , homoeopathy & unani medicine with free consultation and panchkarma therepy.
The pace of development has increased since the formation of Chhattisgarh. The city itself is a very calm and peaceful place. Since the employees of Bhilai Steel Plant are the primary residents of the town, its population is a cosmopolitan one. Unlike other industrial towns, the residential areas in Bhilai are clean and green. Due to the employment opportunities created by the Bhilai Steel Plant, people from all over the country flock here and the culture here provides a scintillating example of "Unity in Diversity".
The Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) - a public sector undertaking run by the Steel Authority of India - was built with Soviet co-operation and technology, and began production in 1959. It was deliberately located in what was then regarded as a remote and "backward" rural area, profits being secondary to employment in the planning priorities of the time. BSP currently has nearly 55, 000 permanent workers on its direct pay-roll, of whom approximately three-fifths work inside the 17 square kilometer plant and the remainder for its associated mines and quarries, and for the purpose-built BSP township. This compares with a regular workforce of 63,400 in 1987. In addition, on any one day there are at present something in the region of 8,000 contract workers employed by the plant and the township, and a further 3,500 - 4,000 employed by the mines. Though a handful of managers, and a significant proportion of the contract labour force, are women, all of the regular BSP workers assigned to duties inside the plant are men.