Senior BJD leader and Rajya Sabha member Narendra Swain has raised the issue of the National Investment and Manufacturing Zone (NIMZ) at Kalinganagar in Jajpur district in the Parliament’s Upper Nouse.
He asked Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal whether the Central Government has taken necessary steps till date through its respective ministries for creation of the external infrastructure for the NIMZ at Kalinganagar.
Replying to Swain’s query, Goyal said the Centre has granted final approval to the NIMZ in Kalianagar on receipt of proposals from the State Government.
Giving details , the Minister said the Paradip-Kalinganagar section improvement (length-121km), including upgradation from 2-lane carriageway to 6-lane carriageway of NH-200 between Chandikhole and Kalinganagar NIMZ and 4-lane carriageway to 6-lane carriageway of NH-5A between Chandikhole and Paradip Port, is in progress.
He said expansion of NH53/200 in and around Kalinganagar NIMZ (132.36 km length), including improvement of the stretch of 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 as on February 21 and 23, respectively.
The Minister also said in the expansion of Brahmani river bridge, initially it has been decided to upgrade existing 2 lane bridge with 6 lane bridge.
The work has been included in the rehabilitation and upgradation work of Chandikhole to Duburi section of NH 200 to 4 lane. Now the existing 2 lane bridge is to be retained and new 3 lane bridge to be constructed on river Brahmani in the new carriageway as part of the scope of work.
As regards expansion of NH 215 from Jajpur Road to Panikoili, the road from Jajpur Road to Panikoili section of NH-215 has already been widened to 4-lane standard under 4 lasting work of Panikoili- Rimuli Project section executed on BOT(Toll) mode.
A Broad Gauge railway line of 104.24 km in Odisha between Angul and Sukinda is being constructed, which provides a direct link between iron-ore rich areas of Odisha (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 Industrial areas.
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 / Dhamra ports, a Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the development of National Waterway - 5 (including above stretches) 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 the NIMZ at Kalinganagar.
Similarly, 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,RTGS, etc.
The berth can be utilised by the industries in Kalinganagar Industrial Zone for export of their finished products, the Minister said.
The Minister also declared that the Government has granted final approval to two other NIMZs viz. Prakasam district in Andhra Pradesh and Sangareddy district inTelangana.