Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday launched 22 new projects, which included 10 inaugurations and 12 ground breakings, across 10 sectors at different places in the State under the ‘Make in Odisha’ programme.
The projects would bring an investment of Rs 4461.42 crore and create 9,451 job opportunities, informed an official release.
“I congratulate all the concerned companies on this milestone and assure everyone of complete facilitation support from the Government. These projects will usher in the next era of industrial growth in the State and will contribute towards the vision of an industrially prosperous Odisha,” said Patnaik.
He said Odisha has a vision of becoming one of the top three investment destinations in the country in terms of grounded investments for which his Government has devised the ‘5T’ strategy, in which Transformation goals will be achieved through Teamwork, Transparency and Technology enablers in a Time-bound manner.
Patnaik informed that ground-breaking and inauguration of over 120 industrial units with an investment of Rs 92,686 crore have been undertaken in the State during the last 20 months. These projects would create employment opportunities for over 1.2 lakh people, he said.
The projects which were inaugurated include the Shyam Metalic’s 0.77 MTPA steel plant at Rengali, JSW Cement’s cement grinding plant at Kalinganagar, Aarti Steel’s 0.2 MT alloy steel rolling mill at Athagarh, JK Laxmi Cement’s cement grinding unit at Ghantikhal, Hindalco’s solar power plant in Sambalpur, Oricon’s food and beverage industries at Khordha, grain-based distillery plant in Boudh, Nezone Tube’s tubes and pipes making unit at Kalinganagar, Jay Bharat Spices’s unit at Ramdaspur in Cuttack and MK Plast’s PVC unit at Ramdaspur.
The projects for which ground-breaking was conducted include Rungta Mine’s steel plant expansion in Keonjhar, Shree Hari Sponge’s plant expansion in Sundargarh, Mayfair Hotels’ golf resort in Puri, Aditya Birla’s apparel making unit in Rayagada, Astral Polytechnik’s plastic unit at Ramdaspur, CJ Darcel Logistic’s integrated logistic unit at Kalinganagar and ABP Energytek’s boiler and thermo fluid heater unit, Binu Industries’ irrigation shutter and gates unit, Maheswari Packaging’s corrugated board boxes’ unit, Khushi Industries’ dal processing unit, Sai Binayak’s corrugted paper and paper boxes unit and Lalita packaging’s paper container unit at Ramdaspur.
On the occasion, he also released a coffee table book Make-in-Odisha 2018. Industries, Energy and MSME Minister Divya Shankar Mishra was present, Chief Secretary AP Padhi, Industries Principal Secretary Sanjeev Chopra, Idco CMD Sanjay Singh were present.