By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha Government, in partnership with FICCI, organised an investors’ meet in Ahmedabad in Gujarat on August 8. The forum highlighted the State’s investment potential in the textile, metal, downstream, chemical, and other industries.
The meeting was attended by over 150 delegates representing large-scale and MSME industries across Gujarat. Odisha Industries, MSME, and Energy Minister Pratap Keshari Deb, Industry Secretary Hemant Sharma and senior officials from the industries department were among those attended the meet.
Minister Pratap Keshari Deb stated that Odisha has emerged as one of India’s major industrial centers and extended his invitation to all the industry leaders to attend the Make in Odisha conclave which will be held from November 30th. Odisha produces 34.3 percent of the country’s total mineral output and is the leading producer of chromite, nickel, bauxite, manganese, and iron ore, Minister Deb said. Odisha has a 480-kilometer coastline and three fully functional ports at Paradeep, Gopalpur, and Dhamra that connects the State to global trade channels,” Deb said.
One-to-one “Business to Government (B2G) meetings” were also organized to initiate and sustain heart-to-heart dialogue with the industry and relevant industry associations. The delegation from the state also met 19 individual industry captains, which included many household names.
Hemant Sharma , Principal Secretary, Industries Department, Skill Development and Technical Education, and Chairman-IDCO and Chairman-IPICOL, presented the “Odisha Business Ecosystem and Investment Opportunities”.
Sharma highlighted the zero-human-interface single window portal named GO-SWIFT, ready-to-move industrial land parcels across the state, and the competitive power and water tariffs that are enablers to set up industries and manufacturing units in the state.
