The Japan-based Indo Nissin Foods is all set to manufacture instant noodles at its newly set-up factory at Khordha. The company opened its third manufacturing unit in the country at the Khordha Industrial Park on Wednesday. It has two other factories in Bangalore and Haryana covering south, east and western zones.
Attending the programme, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said Odisha has the potential to rope in a wide range of investors for expanding their businesses in the State. Efforts are on to create more employment opportunities and generate revenue in all sectors, Patnaik said, adding that the company would generate employment opportunities for 500 people.
The company has set a target of 20,000 tonnes of annual production for the Khordha factory. With the investment of `100 crore, the factory would initially produce 5,000 tonnes per annum, informed Indo Nissin Foods CEO Koki Ando. The factory would produce in a full-fledged capacity in about two years, depending on the market, he added.
The company, which trades its product under the brand name of Top Ramen, also launched a new product Scoopies which will be available in the market by March-April. Unlike other noodles, the size of this noodle is only 3cm and kneaded and pre-coated with Masala. The price of a packet starts from `5 only.
Among others, MP Prasanna Patsani and company MD Akhide Matsuo and senior MD Noritaka Ando were present at the function.
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ing. IIJQotIJHzIJzy little haven in the hills. I always have loved mountains. In Kim, Kipling wrote ‘Who goes to the hills, goes to his mother.’ I cannot agree more with him. living in the hills is like living in the bosom of a strong, sometimes proud, but always comforting mother. Every time I go away from here, the homecoming is warmer and sweeter.”
He says had he not decided to make Mussoorie his home, he may have been a different person today. “There's nature all around me. My shrubbery is my favourite place. Watching nature change its colours with the changing seasons enchants me. The sparrows are here all the year round. And so are the thrushes. It is summer and fruit-eating birds have arrived. The presence of these birds adds tranquility to my life."
The writer-in-residence in this hill town, Bond wrote his first book The Room on the Roof at the age of 16 .The work has the Doon valley as its backdrop and paints an endearing picture of the pristine beauty of the valley in the 1950s. Generations of children have been studying the book as a text in school. “I was 17 when The Room on the Roof was published. Makes me feel quite ancient sometimes,” Bond said.His latest book is Tales of Fosterganj, a novel about a charming Himalayan hamlet which he loves.
“Actually Fosterganj is Barlowganj near Mussooie disguised as a fictional place,” Bond told The Pioneer.
“There are more than a dozen chapters and they all are interlinked,” said the author who has been attending literature festivals in Dubai and Mumbai.
Tales of Fosterganj has several characters whom the author met and knew in the 1960s in Barlowganj. The novel is also set in the 1960s.
Ruskin Bond has a gentle charm. It has kept him going even as he wanders around the hill side identifying wildflowers for children or just listening patiently to the local baker's complaint of poor yeast and as the years have gone by, he has become a living legend, an institution.
Having long ago, effortlessly, crossed his ‘century’ of published titles; Ruskin Bond has maintained his integrity as a writer and has worked towards his goals with single-minded devotion. Perhaps his greatest achievement is that he has persevered in his dream of becoming a full-time writer. And he writes for those ‘gentle readers’ who are interested in the beauty of nature and the dignity in the lives of ordinary people rather than in stormy events.
His stories achieve a universal quality that transcends the regional locale and endorses the human endeavour to survive against odds and to preserve what is beautiful and meaningful.