Ranchi Cityscapes

[vishal]

Found some photos of The new LeLac Hotel Ranchi. Looks pretty decent for a Business Hotel in this part of the country.

Somebody had posted this on their Facebook ; Cool Night-view



All Photos shown below from the Hotel's website:

[g vardhan]

nics pics vishal....
seems the hospitality industry is on a high in RNC espicially aftr national games
A night view of national games athletics stadium

Paharimandir from RNC lake

source:facebook profile of Oyee..'m 4m RaNcHi..yAr!

[vishal]

Originally Posted by g vardhan

nics pics vishal....
seems the hospitality industry is on a high in RNC espicially aftr national games
A night view of national games athletics stadium

Paharimandir from RNC lake

source:facebook profile of Oyee..'m 4m RaNcHi..yAr!

Coolh.... Your pics are nice too ....Like the Ranchi Lake View very much.

I am not sure if the hospitality boom is due to Games or just as is. Anyways Ranchi generated the max employment in Tier -3 Cities in the last 2 fiscal years. Probably that explains the situation a bit.

I am eagerly waiting for the Radisson Blu hotel (The best one in town so far) ...BTW do you have any photos of that from the inside. Though its being used right now, still officially hasn't be opened up yet so no updates on Raddisson website yet.

[g vardhan]

http://www.radissonblu.com/hotel-ranchi
it feels from the website that the hotel has opened plus while i was in RNC during holi break i saw huge banners of the hotel at prominent chowks n mores.....but there are no official pics on d webpage or anywhere else

[vishal]

Originally Posted by g vardhan

http://www.radissonblu.com/hotel-ranchi
it feels from the website that the hotel has opened plus while i was in RNC during holi break i saw huge banners of the hotel at prominent chowks n mores.....but there are no official pics on d webpage or anywhere else

This Page has been in place for quite a while, however when you try to do online booking, it says Coming Soon or something like that. Thats the reason why I think they are not official yet.
Recently, someone in my family had organized a private function at the hotel (3 weeks back), and from the pics that I saw, the hotel looked pretty grand from inside. Unfortunately cannot post those pics here for privacy reasons .

[nirax]

Originally Posted by vishal

Summer Bloom in Ranchi - Taken Near Vidhan Sabha - HEC
Photo CC: www.jagran.com

image hosted on flickr

great i love color on roads.

[abhi_ckt]

HEC Main road



SAIL city under construction

[vishal]

Nice Pics Abhi ..Thx Looks like you r visiting Ranchi ... Pls. keep the pics coming ...

[abhi_ckt]

@ vishal, went there after 8-9 months, more pics on next visit

[vishal]

From Panoramio. Njoi
(cc: http://www.panoramio.com/user/356025...1&photo_page=3)

Ranchi Airport:






Main Road (Near Sujata Chowk / Lala Lajpat Rai Circle)



St. Mary's Cathedral (Purulia Road)

[vishal]

A nice and encouraging article about Ranchi's presence in the education arena. Lots of new and prestigious instituions have opened or are in the process of opening their Ranchi chapter. Few of them are: IIM, National Law University, NILAI (Malaysia), ICFAI University, Central University, National Sports University (SAI), and many International schools. Its a pretty nice indicator of a bright future (something on the lines of Pune).

Article Link: http://www.telegraphindia.com/111060...y_14073057.jsp

Ranchi, June 4: Forgive Ranchi its swagger. From a city used to losing its best brains to metros or countries abroad, it is now the preferred workplace of many top-notch professionals.

With world-class cradles Indian Institute of Management (IIM)-Ranchi and National University for Study and Research in Law (NUSRL) off the ground, some of the best brains of Jharkhand and eastern India are opting to teach semesters, deliver guest lectures or settle down permanently in the state capital.

Take Shivendu, a professor in University of California, Irvine, who used to be an IAS in Jharkhand. “He’s visiting his wife Mridula, also an IAS, and parents in Ranchi, and we roped him in to teach business and governance here,” smiled IIM-R director M.J. Xavier. Other Jharkhandis who offered guest lectures included Maneesh Kumar of Edinburgh University and Vikas Kumar of Dublin City University. “They want to see IIM-R grow,” Xavier pointed out.

It’s not just combining work with a holiday. Jharkhand’s Manoj Chandra and Subir Verma, who taught at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, and MDI, Gurgaon, respectively, are coming as IIM-R’s permanent faculty. “Ranchi is now a magnet for some of the best brains hailing from eastern India. They’re people who have attained stature in institutions the world over and want to come back,” Xavier said, adding that of the seven permanent faculty members, two each are from Jharkhand and Bengal.

“We don’t want to pack this IIM with everyone from the east as it’s a national institute and should have the stamp of diversity. There are faculty from Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, too,” Xavier pointed out.

So while Andhra couple Chandrashekhar and wife Hemalatha Chandrashekhar, both fellow at IIM-Lucknow, are gladly moving in to Ranchi, so are Bengalis such as Arun Nandy, with stints at National University of Singapore and Institute of Management, Goa, and Madhuri Deb, with a CV that boasts IIT Kharagpur and Narsee Monjee Institute of Management & Higher Studies, Mumbai. There’s also Amit Sacham from MDI Gurgaon.

All of them will join IIM-R this month or in July, said Xavier.

“We’re connecting with people with a Jharkhand or eastern India connect through Facebook,” Xavier said.

Legal experts with roots in Jharkhand and eastern neighbours are also flocking to NUSRL, the prestigious law cradle inaugurated on April 26, 2010, on BIT Mesra campus. It’s dean (faculty), A.K. Gupta, is from Patna. “When we invited applications to recruit faculty for our five-year integrated course, BA-LLB, we got over 100 applications, many from abroad. Most had origins in Jharkhand, Bihar, Orissa or Bengal,” he said.

Gupta earlier worked at Jodhpur University, Rajasthan. “Of the seven faculty members on rolls, two are originally from Jharkhand, and chose to come back from metros such as New Delhi and Bangalore. Two are from Bihar and one each from Uttar Pradesh and Orissa. Only one person has stayed in Ranchi throughout,” he said.

“Nimesh Dasguru and Poonam Kumari are from Jharkhand. Dasguru taught at National Law University, Delhi, while Kumari had studied at National Law School of India University, Bangalore.”

[World8115]

Ranchi Airport looks pretty small. Vishal are there any plans for a new terminal

[India101]

That church is beautiful! Love those red bricks.

[vishal]

Originally Posted by World8115

Ranchi Airport looks pretty small. Vishal are there any plans for a new terminal

World, thats the old terminal in the picture. The new one is already "nearly" complete and is situated to the right of the current terminal from this view.
I am posting an old post with a view of the new terminal. However I would like to also state that Ranchi airport still gets only 6-8 big flights daily (I don't have the data for chartered/corp/govt. flights) and even this terminal is kind of serving nicely for the current load. However, in the winter schedule for 2011 we might see 3-4 additional flights daily (+may be an international one) and that would render this terminal really puny, capacity wise. So AAI needs to really commission the new terminal by the end of Summer/Rains.

Originally Posted by vishal

Found a video of an Air India flight landing into Ranchi (IXR) on Rwy 31.
One can see the new Under Construction Terminal and the Taxiway too.

Here's the link: Embedding disabled
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5oSBM1wjtI

Here are a couple of screenshots:
image hosted on flickr

[vishal]

Originally Posted by India101

That church is beautiful! Love those red bricks.

Yes India101, it indeed is... Infact the side view is even more gorgeous (Unfortunately I don't have photos for that). Its probably the biggest Cathedral in Ranchi (Also known as the "Bada Girjaghar" by locals)

[World8115]

Originally Posted by vishal

The new one is already "nearly" complete and is situated to the right of the current terminal from this view.

Hope to see more flights after the completion of the new terminal

[g vardhan]

image hosted on flickr

Eiffel Tower of Ranchi by Sankara Subramanian C (www.beontheroad.com), on Flickr
TV tower being described as the Eiffel of Ranchi in dis pic

[vishal]

Originally Posted by g vardhan

Eiffel Tower of Ranchi by Sankara Subramanian C (www.beontheroad.com), on Flickr[/URL]
TV tower being described as the Eiffel of Ranchi in dis pic

Nice shot ....Only if they could change the hideous Red-White color and put some cool lights on the tower.

[nirax]

Originally Posted by World8115

Ranchi Airport looks pretty small. Vishal are there any plans for a new terminal

did you say small ? it looks more like a paan ki dukan

[nirax]

Originally Posted by vishal

Nice shot ....Only if they could change the hideous Red-White color and put some cool lights on the tower.

in any case the TV tower is a relic ... I have not met anybody who watches DD in the last 15 years ... last time i went to ranchi i saw DTH even in small villages, where it was doubtful that power would be enough, though i may be wrong.