The State level Single Window Clearance Authority (SlSWCA) meeting held under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary Gokul Chandra Pati on Friday accorded in-principle approval to five investment projects worth `635 crore.
While approving the projects, the Chief Secretary directed IPICOl to make a realistic assessment of land for them keeping in view optimum utilization of land. The IPICOl was applauded for streamlining green category project proposal within seven days.
The projects approved within seven days of the submission of proposal are M/S Pantaloon Fashion and Retail ltd to set up garment manufacturing plant at Mancheswar, Khordha with capacity of 28 lakh pieces per annum and M/S Indoroma Ventures Public Company ltd , Singapore, to set up a manufacturing unit for the food and beverage products. These two green category projects involve investment of Rs148 crore with employment generation potential for 1,740 persons.
Fastening of the projects have been possible because of the green category projects notified recently by the State Pollution Control Board.
The Chief Secretary directed the department to follow up grounding and commissioning of the projects already approved by SlSWCA earlier through State and district facilitation centres.
It may be pertinent here to mention that these facilitation centres have been set up in IPICOl recently to expedite the investment projects and handhold the industrialists. The department has also been advised to upload on website the category wise land included in land Bank for industrial use.
Replying to the media query after the meeting, IPICOl General Manager Kalyan Mohanty gave brief details of the approved projects. The other approved projects include proposal of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation limited to set up a lPG bottling plant at Rayagada with investment of `92 crore, proposal of JSW Cement ltd to set up 1.2 MTPA cement plant at Kalinganagar, Jajpur with investment of `318 crore, proposal of Parle Agro Pvt ltd to set up additional manufacturing unit at Khurda Food park with investment of `2.10 crore, proposal of National Aluminum Company ltd for expansion of its alumina refinery capacity from 2.275 MTPA to 3.275 MTPA at Damnajodi, Koraput with investment of `4,357 crore. These proposals were forwarded to HlCA for consideration.
Chief Secretary Pati also reviewed the progress of the investment proposals approved from 2009-2011. Review shows that out of a total of 111 projects approved during this period, till now 30 projects have gone to production and 33 projects have been first tracked for completion. The project proponents of the rest 45 projects have been advised to put their projects on first track.
Development Commissioner Upendra Nath Behera, Principal Secretary, Industry Sanjeeb Chopra, Principal Secretary, Water Resources Pradeep Kumar Jena, Principal Secretary, Forest and Environment Suresh Chandra Mohapatra, CMD GRIDCO Hemat Sharma along with senior officers from respective departments participated.c