Odisha is the land of Lord Jagannath with huge natural resource and rich cultural heritage. The people of kalinga are considered brave and hard working who gave the world, sculptures like konark sun temple and jagannath temple. Odisha is the store house of natural resources like water, wild life, forest and mineral resources .This state is a highest producer of aluminum in India .Important miner
als in Odisha are iron ore, coal, bauxite, chromite, manganese and graphite. Odisha's industries are mostly mineral based and retain 10 percent of total capacities of the nation. Odisha contains a fifth of India's coal, a quarter of its iron ore, a third of its bauxite reserves and most of the chromite . Rourkela Steel Plant[1] was the first integrated steel plant in the Public Sector in India. Still Odisha is a poor and backward state in India due to misrule and corruption. The cost of living in rural Odisha is one of the minimum in India and per capita expenditure in rural Odisha stands at second position just after Chhatishgarh which is only 904.78.The literacy rate is 73.5% in comparison to 74% all India. But male population of Odisha are more literate (82.4) than all India level (82.1).Infant mortality rate is 61 per 1000 births and it is 47 in case of all India. Aren’t we ashamed of the condition of Odisha ? Odisha deserves change and better governance.Let’s join hands for better Odisha.
