Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday said that more big and foreign industrial houses are coming to the State for investment. His Government has chalked out plans to provide jobs to six lakh youths in Government and other sectors within five years.
He was addressing a meeting after inaugurating the 2nd Kalinganagar Mahostav. He also laid foundation-stone for a park at Kalinganagar.
Patnaik stated that his Government’s scheme of KALIA (Krushak Assistance for Livelihood & Income Augmentation) to provide financial, livelihood, cultivation support along with insurance support to farmers and sharecroppers would hugely help the farming community.
The KALIA scheme would benefit around 40 lakh farmers, he added.
The meeting was also addressed by Jajpur MLA Pranab Kishore Das, Bari MLA Debashis Nayak and Sukinda MLA Pritiranjan Ghadai.