Mandideep - City of aspirations!

Mandideep is a town with municipality in Goharganj taluk in Raisen district of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Mandideep is 23 km from Bhopal and is basically an Industrial township which came into existence in late 1970s.
The major industries here are Hindustan Electro Graphite (HEG), Procter & Gamble, Eicher tractors Ltd, Lupin laboratories, and many more national and international level company have their manufacturing units at Mandideep.
Looking back through history, Mandideep situated in close proximity to Bhojpur's Shiva temple was surrounded by a big lake since the 10th century. In the 15th century, Sultan Hussein Shah of Malwa demolished the Bhojpur dam, which kept releasing water for 3 years. Mandideep village came into existence when the land dried up. It was an island in the big lake(Bhopal to Hoshangabad)hence called in Hindi Deep, those days it has a weekly market, means mandi in Hindi so it was called Mandi Deep the "Island of Market".
Initially, the pace of development was slow due to lack of infrastructure. Mr. Chandar Singh Pal is the mukaddam (Patel) of Mandideep played an important role at the time of industrialization in mandideep.
Mandideep is well connected to Railways, Roadways and Airways as it is a region of State Capital Bhopal.
HEG was the first industry to light the lamp of industrialization in Mandideep. In 1983, Mandideep housed 49 industrial units.
In the 1980s, several changes helped industrial development. The Madhya Pradesh State Industrial Development Corporation completely aided by the state government was formed with the objective of promoting development of industries in this region.
Once a sleepy village in Bhopal district, Mandideep, which started on an area of 560-acre, is now sprawled across 2,000-acre .
Currently Mandideep houses more than 400 industrial units belonging to reputed companies and It boasts of a total investment of more than Rs 4,000 crore.

#madhyapradeshtourisam
#tigin
#bhopal
#mandideep
#HEG
#CROMPTONGREAVES
#BHASKAR
#ANDRITZ
#PROCTERANDGAMBLE
#LUPIN
#EICHER
#PEPSI
#MAKSON
#VARDHAMAN
#IEC