Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Minister Prafulla Samal on Friday said the State Government would provide land at affordable rate for setting up of MSME units.
The Minister said this while attending the 31st annual day celebration of the Odisha Assembly of Small and Medium Enterprises (OASME) and Allfin Food Tech Summit-2017 held here.
He said MSME entrepreneurs can’t buy land at rates applied to large scale industries and they would be provided land at affordable prices.
Inaugurating the programme, Agriculture and Farmer Empowers’ Minister Dr Damodar Rout said Odisha has ample opportunities to put agro based and ancillary industries and hence all departments should come together to small and medium scale industries.
MSME Secretary lN Gupta said main problems of industries in Odisha are land, infrastructure and electricity. The Government is taking necessary steps to solve these problems. Industries Principal Secretary Sanjeev Chopra said the Government is taking lots of steps for ease of doing business in Odisha.
IDCO CMD said, “Six lakh people have already been trained and another five lakh people will be trained in coming days. The State Government has a vision to create 30 lakh jobs by 2025.”
He said 1 lakh acre land bank mapping has already been done.