AMAZING FACTS ABOUT BHUBANESWAR; KNOW WHY BHUBANESWAR BECAME THE NEW CAPITAL WHEN CUTTACK WAS THE CAPITAL CITY OF ODISHA

(The Quiver bureau) : Bhubaneswar city has a glorious history of over 3,000 years beginning from the Mahamegha-bahana Chedi dynasty (around 2nd century BC) with Sisupalgarh as its capital.

Bhubaneswar derived its name from Tribhubaneswar, which means the Lord of the Three Worlds (Tribhuvan), referring to Shiva.

India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru laid the foundation stone of Bhubaneswar on April 13, 1948.

German architect Otto Koenigsberger had designed Bhubaneswar’s master plan in 1948 for a population of 40,000.

Bhubaneswar is also known as Toshali, Kalinga Nagari, Nagar Kalinga, Ekamra Kanan, Ekamra Kshetra and Mandira Malini Nagari.

Bhubaneswar is a confluence of Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain heritage and includes several Kalingan temples. With Puri and Konark it forms the ‘Swarna Tribhuja’ (Golden Triangle), one of eastern India’s most visited destinations.

40,000 population were dwelling in  Bhubaneswar city from its beginning , now the city is being inhabited by over 14 lakh people.

Bhubaneswar replaced Cuttack as the capital of the State in 1948, a year after India secured independence from Britishers.

WHY BHUBANESWAR IS CAPITAL OF ODISHA  IF CUTTACK WAS THE EXISTING CAPITAL FROM BRITISHERS TIME?

The capital of the British-ruled Odisha Province was Cuttack, which was vulnerable to floods and suffered from space constraints. So , on 30 September 1946, a proposal to move the capital to a new capital was introduced in the Legislative Assembly of the Odisha . After the independence of India, the foundation of the new capital was laid by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on 13 April 1948.