The Central Government has granted final approval to the National Investment and Manufacturing Zone (NIMZ) at Kalinganagar in Jajpur district.
Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha on Friday informed about this.
Meanwhile, on the receipt of proposals from the State Government, various Central Ministries/departments have undertaken steps for creation and upgradation of external infrastructure linkages to the Kalinganagar National Investment and Manufacturing Zone (KNIMZ).
The Paradip-Kalinganagar section of a length-121km upgradation from 2-lane carriageway to 6-lane of NH-200 between Chandikhole to KNIMZ and from 4-lane carriageway to 6-lane of NH-5A between Chandikhole to Paradip Port is in progress.
Improvement of the stretch Talcher-Duburi-Chandikhole to four lane standard has been awarded in three packages on EPC mode to contractual agencies.
Appointed date/commencement date has been declared for two packages namely, Talcher to Kamakhyanagar section and Kamakhyanagar to Duburi section.
Initially it has been decided to upgrade existing two -lane bridge with six- lane to cater the traffic on Brahmani bridge.
The work has been included in the rehabilitation and upgradation work of Chandikhole to Duburi Section of NH-200 to four-lane. Now, the existing two-lane bridge is to be retained and new three-lane bridge to be constructed on river Brahmani in the new carriageway as part of the scope of work.
Similarly, the road from Jajpur Road to Panikoili section of NH-215 has already been widened to four-lane standard under four laning work of Panikoili- Rimuli Project section executed on BOT (Toll) mode.
In rail sector, a broad gauge railway line of 104.24 km between Angul and Sukinda (Jajpur) is being constructed, which provides a direct link between iron-ore rich areas of Joda- Barbil to steel and sponge iron industries in Angul region and will also provide alternative route between coal mining belt of Talcher to coal based thermal power plant in Kalinganagar.
The execution of Angul-Sukinda new line project is being done by a SPV named “Angul- Sukinda Railway Limited (ASRL)” under participative scheme of Ministry of Railways.
To improve waterways connectivity between Kalinganagar and Paradip and Dhamra Ports, a Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the development of National Waterway-5 in Odisha has been undertaken and development of an Inland Water Transport (IWT) terminal in the south of KNIMZ near Pankapal village has been planned to meet external infrastructure linkages requirement for KNIMZ.
The Paradip Port has developed a new berth of capacity 5 MMTPA with ancillary facilities for handling clean cargo, including containers.
The facilities at the Terminal include 450M Berth, paved storage area of about 1 lakh SQM and a warehouse complex of 600M x 40M with handling equipment like HMCS and RTGS.
The berth can be utilized by the industries in Kalinganagar Industrial Zone for export of their finished products.