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MINDTREE KALINGA

TRAVEL ADVISORY

Dear Mindtree Mind,

Greeting from Mindtree!

On behalf of the Admin Function at Mindtree, I extend a warm welcome to all our Mindtree Minds for learning program, at our Global Learning Centre, Mindtree Kalinga, Bhubaneswar.

At this point in time, we anticipate you are preparing for your travel to Mindtree Kalinga Campus and looking forward to the commencement and your participation in the learning program. We believe that the learning program and your stay at the Global Learning Centre will be enriching to you.

We advise you plan your travel itinerary such that you make yourself available at Mindtree Kalinga at your designated onboarding time slot.

This Travel Advisory is intended to help you review your travel preparation and destination awareness. If there is any assistance/additional information that you may require, feel free to reach out to the Admin Helpdesk numbers listed in this advisory at all times of the day.

Wish you a safe journey, and look forward to welcoming you on board at Mindtree Kalinga.

Welcome to Possible.

Best Regards,

Padmanabhan L Kannan GM & Head – Admin & Facilities

Contents SPIRIT COLLABORATIVE

Important Emergency Contact Information ...... 1 Postal Address ...... 1 Emergency Contact Numbers ...... 1 Popular Call Taxi Facilities ...... 1 Mindtree 24X7 Admin Helpdesk ...... 1 About Bhubaneswar ...... 2

Bhubaneswar Weather Conditions ...... 2

Historical Places near Kalinga Campus ...... 3 Lingaraja Temple ...... 3

Nandankanan Zoological Park ...... 3 UNRELENTIN Dhauli ...... 4 Jagannath Temple, Puri ...... 4 Konark Sun Temple ...... 5

How to Reach Mindtree Kalinga Campus ...... 6 DEDICATION G Amenities near Chandaka SEZ (Kalinga Campus) ...... 8 Hospital ...... 8 Restaurants ...... 8 ATMs ...... 8 Hotels ...... 8 Travel Safety Checklist ...... 9

Baggage Guidelines ...... 9 EXPERT THINKING EXPERT

Important Emergency Contact Information

Postal Address SPIRIT COLLABORATIVE Mindtree Ltd. IDCO Plot No. 1 Chandaka SEZ PO KIIT Campus Bhubaneswar – 751024

Emergency Contact Numbers

Service Description Phone Numbers

To report a crime-police control room 100

Traffic Police 100 Ambulance 108

Fire Control 101 UNRELENTIN Child Line 1098 Women Help Line 10920 Police Station –Near Kalinga +910674-2725700

Police Station-Mahila +910674-2530694 G DEDICATION DEDICATION G Blood Bank +910674-2591206/2417955 Apollo Ambulance 1066 Government General Hospital +910674-2394602

Popular Call Taxi Facilities

ola Operate through app

Uber Operate through app EXPERT THINKING EXPERT

Mindtree 24X7 Admin Helpdesk

Help desk(Landline) 06746643111 Sailesh Mishra(Mobile) +917894411079 Biswajit Das(Mobile) +919937063966

About Bhubaneswar The history of the city stretches back over 2000 years. The area first appears as the ancient capital of Kalinga. Bhubaneswar India, the 'city of temples', named after SPIRIT COLLABORATIVE Tribhuvaneswar, 'Lord of Three Worlds', still preserves over 500 of India's finest temples, around which the religious life of the city revolves.

Mythological references and the epigraphic sources describe the area as Ekamra Kshetra and Saiva Pitha. In 1936, the Odisha (Orissa)) became a separate province with Cuttack as its Capital, which was eventually changed to Bhubaneswar in 1956. UNRELENTIN

Bhubaneswar Weather Conditions Bhubaneswar is located on the coastal plains of Odisha, south-west of the River Mahanadi. It experiences typical tropical weather conditions, and succumbs to the heat

and cold waves that sweep in from north India. G DEDICATION DEDICATION G The summer months from March to May are hot and humid, and temperatures often shoot past 40° C in May. The south west monsoon lashes Odisha in June, bringing relief to the parched environs of Bhubaneswar. July and August receive the maximum rainfall, which may average over 220 mm a month.

Pleasant weather conditions prevail during November in Bhubaneswar, but December and January face the chilly winds from the North/North-East at average speeds of 7 miles/hour. Temperatures drop to approximately 15° C during these months.

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Historical Places near Kalinga Campus

COLLABORATIVE SPIRIT COLLABORATIVE Lingaraja Temple Lingaraja Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Harihara, a form of Shiva and Vishnu and is one of the oldest temples in Bhubaneswar, the capital of the East Indian state of Odisha. The Lingaraja temple is the largest temple in Bhubaneswar. The temple is built in the Deula style. Bhubaneswar is called the Ekamra Kshetra as the deity of Lingaraja was originally

under a mango tree (Ekamra) as noted in Ekamra Purana. The temple is active in worship

practises, unlike most other UNRELENTIN temples in Bhubaneswar and Shiva is worshipped as Harihara, a combined form of Vishnu and Shiva. The temple has an average of 6,000 visitors per day and receives lakhs of visitors during

festivals. Shivaratri festival is the major festival celebrated in the temple. G DEDICATION DEDICATION G

Nandankanan Zoological Park Nandankanan Zoological Park is a 400-hectare zoo and botanical garden in Bhubaneswar, Odisha,

India. Established in 1960, it

was opened to the public in THINKING EXPERT 1979 and became the first zoo in India to join World Association of Zoos and Aquariums in 2009. The park remains closed on Mondays.

Dhauli Dhauli hills are located on the banks SPIRIT COLLABORATIVE of the river Daya, 8 km south of Bhubaneswar in Odisha (India). It is a hill with vast open space adjoining it, and has major Edicts of Ashoka engraved on a mass of rock, by the side of the road

leading to the summit of the hill. Dhauli hill is

presumed to be the UNRELENTIN area where the Kalinga War was fought. The rock-cut elephant above the Edicts is the earliest Buddhist sculpture of Odisha. On the top of the hill, a dazzling white peace pagoda has been built by the Japan Buddha Sangha and the Kalinga Nippon Buddha Sangha in the 1970s. The Dhauligiri hills also has an ancient Shiva temple which is the place for mass gathering DEDICATION G during Shivaratri Celebrations. The state’s first light and sound show has started at the Dhauli hill, easily identified by the Shanti Stupa at the top. The show will be held on all days except Mondays.

Jagannath Temple, Puri The Jagannath Temple of Puri is a

sacred Vaishnava temple dedicated to

Lord Jagannath and located on the THINKING EXPERT eastern coast of India, at Puri in the state of Odisha. The temple is an important pilgrimage destination and is particularly visited by devotees of Supreme lord Sri Krishna and is one of the Char Dham pilgrimages that anyone is expected to make in one's

lifetime.

The temple is famous for its annual Rath Yatra, or chariot festival, in which the three main temple deities are hauled on huge and elaborately decorated temple cars. Since

medieval times, it is also SPIRIT COLLABORATIVE associated with intense religious fervor. Even though the icons of most Hindu deities that are worshiped are made out of stone or metal, the image of Jagannath is wooden. Every twelve or nineteen years these wooden figures are ceremoniously replaced by using sacred trees, which have to be carved as an exact replica. The temple remains open from 5 am to 12 midnight. Special darshan or Parimanik darshan is when devotees on paying 50 Rupees are allowed right up to the deities. Parimanik darshan happens after the dhupa pujas at around 10 am, 1 pm and 8 pm. At all other times devotees can view the UNRELENTIN deities from some distance for free.

Konark Sun Temple

Konark is a medium town in the Puri district in the state of Odisha, India. It lies on the G DEDICATION DEDICATION G coast by the Bay of Bengal, 65 kilometers from the capital of the state, Bhubaneswar. It is the site of the 13th-century Sun Temple, also known as the Black Pagoda, built in black granite during the reign of Narasimhadeva-I.

The temple is a World Heritage Site. The temple is now mostly in ruins, and a collection of its sculptures is housed in the Sun Temple Museum, which is run

by the Archaeological Survey of

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The Sun Temple was built in the 13th century and designed as a gigantic chariot of the Sun God, Surya, with twelve pairs of ornamented wheels pulled by seven horses. Some of the wheels are 3 meters wide. Only six of the seven horse still stand today. One can reach Konark either from Bhubaneswar or from Puri. From Bhubaneswar airport Konark is just 64 kilometer and

deluxe buses are available at frequent interval during whole day time. Also taxi services are adequately available. From Puri, the distance is about 34 Km. One can take a bus or taxi from Puri railway station or he can also avail the train service towards Konark which is not so frequent.

How to Reach Mindtree Kalinga Campus

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From Bhubaneswar Railway station walk to the nearest Master Canteen bus stand (200 meters away from platform no:1) to board the bus.

Alternatively pre-paid taxis, Ola, Uber, Jugnoo and auto

rickshaws are also easily available to this destination. (Ola, Uber and Jugnoo are

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From Infocity around 500 meters towards Shikharchandi is the SEZ campus where

Mindtree Kalinga Campus is DEDICATION G located.

Mindtree Kalinga Campus: Google Coordinates

https://www.google.co.in/maps/dir/Bhubaneswar+New+Railway+Station,+Raghunath THINKING EXPERT pur,+Bhubaneshwar,+Odisha/Mindtree+Consulting+Ltd,+Bhubaneshwar,+Odisha+751 024/@20.3685727,85.7808549,13z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x3a19 0eb3d816d66b:0xc9adecc811ecca5e!2m2!1d85.835136!2d20.382582!1m5!1m1!1s0x3 a1908e77a6bbecd:0x516790bc3db5a09f!2m2!**1d85.80039!2d20.35142

Distance from arrival point to campus km SPIRIT COLLABORATIVE Airport 17 Bus Stand 17 Railway Station 12

Local transfer charges* from different transporters (including OLA and Uber)

Mode Of Transport Taxi Bus Auto

From Airport to campus -Approx. cost 350 20 300 From Bus Station to campus -Approx. cost 300 20 250

From Rly station to campus -Approx. cost 300 15 200 UNRELENTIN * Conditions apply

Help desk(Landline) 06746643111 DEDICATION G Sailesh Mishra(Mobile) +917894411079 Biswajit Das(Mobile) +919937063966

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Amenities near Chandaka SEZ (Kalinga Campus)

Hospital COLLABORATIVE SPIRIT COLLABORATIVE KALINGA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE

Phone: - 0674 230 4400

Restaurants  Food Park  Marwari Restaurant  Hi Bhubaneswar  Abhiruchi  Idli Bhawan  Go South  Kohinoor

The below Links can be used to download the Food and Restaurant apps. UNRELENTIN https://www.foodpanda.in/?gclid=CLq3-9iZv9QCFcwWaAods-UDZQ https://www.zomato.com/bhubaneswar http://www.0km.in/

Alternatively apps can also be downloaded from Play Store from any IOs and Android DEDICATION G device.

ATMs Within Chandaka Industrial Estate there are quite a few ATMs - SBI, Union Bank, Punjab National Bank etc. Within the campus there are ICICI bank and HDFC bank ATMs.

Hotels THINKING EXPERT OYO Rooms

The below Links can be used to download Hotels apps https://www.makemytrip.com/hotels/bhubaneshwar-hotels.html https://www.yatra.com/hotels/business-hotels-at-patia-in-bhubaneshwar https://www.trivago.in/bhubaneswar-404751/hotel

Travel Safety Checklist SPIRIT COLLABORATIVE o Personal Organizers Carry all your important documents / Government Photo ID’s, Certificates, Travel tickets, Helpline contact details at hand when you're on the go. Consider keeping everything stored neatly in a small organizer pack that you can wear comfortably. o Toiletries Pack all your personal hygiene items, skin care, lotion, dental kit, travel towel and

shaving kit. o Heath & First Aid Kit Carry any (prescribed medicine only) to avoid medicine out of stock, also approved

Mosquito Repellant lotions. UNRELENTIN o Clothing/Apparels Carry formal/casual office wear, monsoon, summer, shoes, sneakers & socks adequately. Refer the Campus Advisory for the dress code that needs to be adhered

while at Mindtree Kalinga G DEDICATION DEDICATION G o Carry limited cash as required. Avoid excess jewelry during travel.

Personal Vehicles & Electronic gadgets: o Campus Minds are advised not to bring personal vehicles inside the campus o Any external storage devices, viz. Pen Drive, external Hard Disk, Writable CD/DVD, heaters, immersion heater rod, iron, laptops etc., but not limited to these are strictly

not allowed except the personal grooming items.

Baggage Guidelines THINKING EXPERT

Baggage you carry should comply the baggage scanning guidelines.

Please adhere to the Size and width of the baggage mentioned below. This will help to facilitate the baggage screening process.

Baggage size SHOULD NOT be more than following dimensions

Inches: 21.7 x 14.2 (Width X Height) or MM: 550 X360 (Width X Height).

It is mandatory to carry NOT more than TWO bags. Note: Make sure baggage is

measured before you leave for the travel to avoid aggravation COLLABORATIVE SPIRIT COLLABORATIVE

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