Baikunth

Baikunth is a small planned township in Chhattisgarh state of India.^[1] It is located 40 kilometers (25 miles) away from Raipur city on the Raipur-Bilaspur railway line.^[2] It was created for housing the employees of the Century Cement manufacturing plant, which became operational in the early 1970s.

The name Baikunth was derived from the first letters of the 3 villages that surrounded it - Ba from Bahesar, Kun from Kundru, and T from Tandwa.

The township has a population of approximately 3000,^{[citation needed]} but it employs a lot more folks from nearby villages and towns namely, Tilda, Kundru, Bahesar, Tulsi, etc.

At its inception, this place had just 3 trees. By the end of 2015, this place had more than 471,000 trees.^{[citation needed]} The township has 3 distinct zones: the mine that provides the limestone; the cement manufacturing plant; the residential quarters with a club, a school, college, a branch of UCO bank, a hospital, a post office, shopping center with an ATM, temples, airstrip, a lake, parks, and playgrounds.