Orissa
Mineral-rich Orissa is now attracting foreign direct investment and mega projects like no other state. The state is blessed with heavy iron ore deposits and many a steel plant.
Despite the high level of poverty in the state, Orissa has been in the forefront of privatization and economic reforms.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's Orissa, however, is hardly free from corruption and is said to be 'Highly Corrupt.'
Image: Indian Odissi dancers practice their routine in front of Konark's Sun Temple, some 60 km south of Bhubaneswar, in Orissa. | Photograph: Deshakalyan Chowdhury/AFP/Getty Images
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