Hirakud

Hirakud is a little township situated in Sambalpur in Odisha. It was a Notified Area which at last included alongside Burla in Sambalpur city to acquire the Corporation tag. It was before a town which went to the modern spotlight in 1956 when Hirakud Dam was fabricated and along these lines clearing the way for mechanical development in this prior known natural little township.

By and by, this town is known for being industrialized with a couple of the biggest organizations, to refer to as model is the HINDALCO. Hirakud Dam, with its potential for water system and generation of hydroelectric power, has likewise possessed the capacity to pull in visitors for it being the biggest synthetic fake lake in Asia and one of the longest and biggest dams on the planet. It has been built on the Mahanadi stream between the Gandhi Minar in North and the Nehru Minar in the South which interfaces these two understood slopes.

The shoreline ranges around 640 km. At the base of Hirakud Dam Burla control house present with producing limit 290MW. Hirakud was a noteworthy modern focus of Odisha, maybe second just to Rourkela. Right now be that as it may, the primary useful industry at Hirakud is the aluminum smelter of Hindalco and its related units. As provincial networks around Hirakud are principally subject to agribusiness, Fertilizer Corporation of India Hirakud helps in putting away and dealing with the sustenance grains of adjacent regions also.