Rayagada is one of the fastest growing urban centre in southern Orissa. Population has almost doubled from 57000, what it was as per 2001 census. With boom in industrialisation by the way of upcoming mega projects such as Utkal Alumina, Aditya alumina, RSB Metaliks and number of ancillary industries, coupled with the availability of good rail and road communication facilities, there has been influx of people from all around. There are already four Engineering Colleges and one medical college is in the offing. It is because of this that there has been increasing demand for housing in this town. Since there has been a chronic shortage of leasable land, there is no alternative but raising apartments to meet this housing demand. Of late no of apartments have been raised and more are to come. This booming urbanisation is bound to put lot os stress ob the civic amenties for which the Urban Local Bodies need to gear up.alreday Municipality has undertaken widening of internal roads keeping in view the congestion that is seen now and will only increase in the future.
