Bhubaneswar:The Odisha government today approved four investment proposals worth Rs 348.5 crore which will help create employment opportunities for close to 6000 people.
The State Level Single Window Clearance Authority (SLSWCA) Meeting held under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary Aditya Padhi accorded in-principle approval to four investment proposals, are expected to create employment opportunity for about 6,000 people.
The proposals approved in the meeting belong to a variety of industries- pharmaceuticals, textiles, downstream industries in metals and minerals.
Sanjeeb Chopra, Principal Secretary to the industry department, outlined the investment proposals for discussion during the meeting.
The approved project included a Kolkata-based pharmaceutical company who proposed to set up intravenous fluids production unit at Ramdaspur of Cuttack district with an investment of Rs. 64.95 crore. The plants would create direct and indirect employment for 365 people. This will be the first such manufacturing unit in the pharmaceutical industry of Odisha.
The Angul Aluminium Park being developed as an exclusive state-of-the-art industrial park for ancillary and downstream industries for alumina and aluminium received two investment proposals. The first one was from a leading Mumbai-based manufacturer of aluminium conductors to set up a greenfield manufacturing unit at the Angul Aluminium Park with a capacity of 40,000 MT per annum. The investment outlay was Rs. 56.3 crores with employment potential for 200 persons.
The second proposal for the Angul Aluminium Park was from a Rajasthan-based cables company which proposed to establish a conductor producing unit with the capacity of 30,000 MT per annum involving investment outlay of Rs. 50.30 crores and employment potential for 130 people.
The Investment proposal received from a leading Kerala-based apparel manufacturer through online GO-SWIFT site was another important project that received the nod of the SLSWCA. The company would produce export-oriented textile products with investment of Rs. 177 crore at Tata Steel’s SEZ at Gopalpur in Ganjam district. The project will create employment opportunities for over 5,000 people, with a majority of them being women.
Further, Chief Secretary Padhi took a review of the progress of the projects approved earlier through Single window System. The review revealed that Odisha has been a leading state in conversion of investment intentions to real project proposals. Out of total 124 intents expressed in Make in Odisha Conclave, so far 76 intents have been converted to concrete industrial proposals. Out of this 61 projects have already been approved through single window system. Other projects are in various phases of examination and clearance. Chief Secretary directed the Collectors and other filed level officials to provide all sorts of facilitating help for earlier grounding and commissioning of the projects in their respective areas.
Principal Secretary Industry Sanjeev Chopra appraised that first groundbreaking ceremony was held in November, 2017 for 15 manufacturing units which grounded investments of worth INR 11,690 Cr with employment potential of 8,187 jobs. The second groundbreaking ceremony held in June, 2018 witnessed the inauguration of 7 manufacturing units and groundbreaking of 12 new units with total investment potential of Rs 2,675 Crore and employment potential of 8953 jobs.
