The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) celebrated its State Annual Day on Wednesday, inaugurated by chief guest Minister of Home, Energy, Industries and MSME Capt Dibya Shankar Mishra.
Chairman, CII Odisha State Council Ranjan Kumar Mohapatra, vice-chairman Dr Pradipta Kumar Mohanty and Idco CMD Sanjay Singh were in dais.
The Minister said, “With resources like minerals, natural resources, skilled manpower and young talents, we can be the best State in terms of industrialisation and economy.”
CII Odisha chairman Mohapatra welcomed the guests and dignitaries . Idco CMD Singh said,“Idco has started developments with Industrial Park, Khordha Food Park, Deras Food Park, aluminum park, Angul, plastic park, Paradip, electronic park and IT park, Bhubaneswar.” He also informed that the Idco had floated RFP to study industrial potential in all districts and spoke about the plan to set up five new food parks across the State and MSME parks in all districts.
The inaugural session was followed by a round table on investment climate of sectoral industrial parks of Odisha with two panel discussions.
Concluding the day the new office-bearer were announced. They are chairman, CII Odisha State Council Rajiv Kumar, (VP, Operations, Tata Steel, Kalinganagar) and vice chairman Manish Kharbanda (Group Advisor, Corporate Affairs, Legal, CSR and Sustainability, Jindal Steel and Power).