Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Monday virtually performed the ground-breaking ceremony for 27 major industrial projects, which will bring a total investment of `25,308 crore and generate 52,000 jobs.
He asserted that Odisha was moving from “promise to performance, potential to prosperity”. The projects would come up in 12 districts — Angul, Rayagada, Jajpur, Cuttack, Sundergarh, Sambalpur, Khurda, Puri, Bhadrak, Koraput, Jharsuguda and Ganjam. “Our industrialisation is inclusive as 27 of the 30 districts of the state now have industries,” Majhi said.
Majhi, who became the chief minister 15 months ago, claimed that his Government, in the last 165 days, laid the foundation stone for 84 industries and attracted investment of `5 lakh crore, of which `2 lakk crore-investment has been materialised so far.
He also claimed that employment opportunities have been created for 77,894 people, of whom 56,859 or 80 per cent are Odias. “No one can raise fingers at the State Government and say that Odia people are not getting employment in the industries being set up in the state,” he said. He said Odisha’s new wave of industrialisation reflects a deliberate strategy to balance conventional mineral-based industries with new-age.