US firm offers to make helicopters in State

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The State Government would hold a detailed discussion with American company AlCOR over its proposal to set up a helicopter-making unit in Odisha in the third week of April. Industries Minister Debi Prasad Mishra informed this in the State Assembly in a written reply to a query by Naba Kishore Das (Congress).
The AlCOR had in its proposal, received by the Chief Secretary Office on August 21, 2014, expressed willingness to set up a plant to manufacture helicopters and related equipment in Odisha. A high-level committee headed by the Chief Secretary discussed various angles of the proposal at a meeting held on November 21, 2014. A decision was taken to ask the IDCO CMD to prepare a detailed project report (DPR) to implement the project. Similarly, the State Government has received a proposal from the l&T Company seeking to take up project work in the State, the Minister informed. “letters have been issued to hold discussion on proposals of the two companies in third and fourth weeks of April,” Mishra stated. 
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