Chief Naveen Patnaik would have a one-to-one discussion with business captains of the industry at the Investors’ Meet being organsied by the State Government in Bengaluru on Friday.
On the inaugural day of the event on Thursday, Industries Minister Debi Prasad Mishra and Energy Minister Pranab Prakash Das along with senior State Government officials met business captains and invited them to Odisha to invest in sectors like engineering, IT, hardware, aviation, textiles, medical devices, lubricants, aerospace, beverages, telecom, defence, transport and consumer durables.
Sources said that on the first day, various industries agreed to invest Rs Rs 35,000 crore in different sectors.
The Neyvelli lignite Corporation (NlC) would set up a coal mining processing unit and thermal and solar power plants in the State and would invest ` 25,000 crore in Odisha, said company chief Sarat Acharya.
Further, on Friday evening the State Government in association with the Shree Biju Patnaik Centenary Celebration Organising Committee and the All Odisha Association of Bangalore would also hold an event to mark Biju birth centenary and also commemoration of 80 years of formation of Odisha.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaih, former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, and Union Minister M Ananth Kumar are scheduled to attend the event, said sources.