Bhilai - Places of Interest

Places of Interest

• Industrial Area It's important place of Bhilai around fifty thousand people coming here

for several jobs.work done at bhilai is mainly fabrication of steel, machnining of steel.wire drums forwires, the products of bhilai steel plants are mainly steel plate structures and wire road etc, other big and establisd units are bhilai engg corporation,simplex engg, beekay engg, mudhar engg& automation etc

• The Maitri Bagh- A zoo and a park established by the Bhilai Steel Plant. Right next to Maitri Bagh are two huge man-made water lakes. One is used to supply water to the township. The other is used for the Steel Plant's applications. Right across Maitri Bagh is Bhilai Water Works, a facility used to provide clean water to the Bhilai Township. Maitri Bagh literally means the "friendship garden" and was established as a symbol of India-USSR friendship.
• Civic Center - Started as a shopping center consisting of two rows of shops and stores arranged in an L-shape, initially it had tata (textiles) on one end and bata (shoes) on the other end. This was the only hub for lots of social activities, entertainment and shopping for a long time before Bhilai expanded beyond its boundaries when shopping complex like Gangotri & Akash Ganga started in Supela in the late 1980s. Lots of changes happened after that in the Civic Center and nearby area. The L-shape Civic Center had a children's garden with a toy-train which used to be open on every 14 November on Children's Day. The toy-train is no longer there, and garden is decorated to teach traffic-sign and signals to children. There was also a dome supermarket which is now used for art-exhibitions. To the east of the Civic Center, there is an open place with stage, which is known as 'Open-Air-Theatre' and used for various cultural activities including musical nights. Right next to the Civic Center is Kala Mandir theater, used for various purposes. Initially it was a movie theater known as Chitra Mandir. For a long time, this was the only air-conditioned movie theater in the area for entertainment of Bhilaians. But in nineties with television and cable TV popularity, demand and use of this theater reduced, and management decided to close the movie theater. The theater was then converted to a multi-purpose community center and named as Kala Mandir. South of Kala Mandir is a huge field used for Ramleela and Dashehara (Dasara) festivals. In this field, there used to be a high rock stage which was constructed to welcome Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru in 1962. The new Civic Center started its operation in the 1980s, an became a major IT hub in Bhilai. This is a new commercial complex and also has a movie theater - Geet Talkies which is under reconstruction now.
• Kali Bari in Sector 6
• Akshaya patra in sector 6.