Naveen launches industrial projects worth over `2900 cr

BHUBANESWAR: Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurated on Thursday two industrial projects and also laid foundation stone of 13 other projects with investment of over Rs 2900 crore having employment potential of 3000 jobs.

This is the third phase of industrialization process titled “Make in Odisha” undertaken by the Naveen Patnaik government since 2016.

The chief minister inaugurated the Grasim Industries project at Ganjam and Jyoti Solar Solutions at Bengalore via video-conferencing from Bhubaneswar on Thursday.

Besides, Naveen also laid the foundation stone of OCL India, Rajagangpur, IFFCO at Paradip, Jajpur Cement at Kalinga Nagar and Indo-nissin Food project at Khordha.

The chief minister said that Odisha is fast emerging as the manufacturing hub of Eastern India and his government is working towards developing the State as a manufacturing hub of South Asia. Patnaik also announced that Japan would be the country partner for the “Make in Odisha Conclave.”

In the first phase in 2016, the State Government received investment proposals worth Rs 2 lakh crore out of which several proposals were approved and are in different stages of implementation. In the second phase beginning May 2018, 19 projects were launched.

For rapid development of Industries, Odisha is going to organise the ‘Make in Odisha Conclave”, which is likely to attract top investors from India and abroad. A roadshow was organised this month in Mumbai by the State on 8th of this month where a good number of industry and business leaders met with Naveen and expressed their willingness to invest in the State.

The theme of the “Make in Odisha Conclave” is I am Odisha and the foucs is ‘Transparency, Technology and Team Work.