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Dec 26, 2025
Dec 26, 2025
49 min
🎓 Christoph Burgmer besuchte die indische Großstadt Rourkela im Bundesstaat Odisha. Was wurde aus dem Stahlwerk im indischen Dschungel, dem größten Entwicklungshilfeprojekt der alten Bundesrepublik Deutschland? Wie leben die Adivasi, die Ureinwohner Indiens, die in den 50er Jahren vor Errichtung des Stahlwerks dort lebten. Rourkela hat heute über 500.000 Einwohner. Und ist zentral für das indische Wirtschaftswachstum.
/🎓 Christoph Burgmer visited the Indian city of Rourkela in the state of Odisha. What became of the steel plant in the Indian jungle, the largest development aid project of the former Federal Republic of Germany? How do the Adivasi, the indigenous people of India, who lived there in the 1950s before the steel plant was built, live today? Rourkela now has over 500,000 inhabitants and is central to India's economic growth.
क्रिस्टोफ बर्गमर ने ओडिशा राज्य में भारतीय शहर राउरकेला का दौरा किया। भारतीय जंगल में स्टील मिल का क्या हुआ, जो पुराने संघीय गणराज्य में सबसे बड़ी विकास सहायता परियोजना है? स्टील मिल के निर्माण से पहले 50 के दशक में वहां रहने वाले आदिवासी, भारत के स्वदेशी लोग कैसे रहते हैं? आज, राउरकेला में 500,000 से अधिक निवासी हैं। और यह भारत के आर्थिक विकास के लिए केंद्रीय है।
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