Bhubaneswar, November 11: The “Industry Care” meeting chaired by Principal Advisor to Chief Minister and Western Odisha Development Council (WODC) Chairman Asit Tripathy has resolved the issues related to land, power and logistics of more than 42 large-scale industries and 50 MSME units operating in Angul and Dhenkanal districts, said an official release.
According to an Industry Department release, senior officials from the Industries, MSME, Forest, Environment (Pollution Control) and Energy departments of the Government of Odisha were on a two-day visit to Angul to engage with the industrial units formally and to address their issues on a high priority basis.
The team led by Asit Tripathy met 42 large-scale and more than 50 MSME industries of the region including NALCO, NTPC, MCL, GAIL, TATA Steel BSL, Vedanta and JSPL among many others.
Hemant Sharma, Principal Secretary Industries Department was also present.
A detailed discussion was held on the issues such as the conditions of the state and national highways in the Angul-Dhenkanal industrial cluster, dumping of fly ash, development of district industrial areas, construction of an in-stream storage check dam. Various District level functionaries from the departments of Agriculture, Horticulture, F & ARD, APICOL, Mission Shakti, Tourism, Lead Bank and NABARD etc. were directed to help the local entrepreneurs in scaling up the existing projects and increase their incomes.
On the second day of the visit, the team visited Angul Aluminium Park to take a stock of the recent developments followed by an interactive session with the MSME industries. Issues relating to IDCO industrial estate, power supply, raw material linkage, financing to the SMEs were discussed among the key shareholders.
Senior officials from the department of MSME including Satyabrata Sahu, Principal Secretary, MSME Department, Md Sadique Alam, Director of Industries along with the Angul and Dhenkanal Collectors participated in the event.
Bhupendra Singh Poonia MD, IPICOL highlighted the District Investment Promotion Agency (DIPA) initiative which is streamlining the last mile investment and aftercare process at the district level.
