Bhubaneswar: Odisha goverenment’s 144th State Level Single Window Clearance Authority (SLSWCA) headed by Chief Secretary Ms. Anu Garg Tuesday approved 23 industrial investment proposals with a total investment of Rs 4111.80 crore, generating 9924 employment opportunities.
The approved projects span a wide range of sectors including Mechanica & Electrical Capital Goods, Apparel & Textiles, Aerospace & Defence Manufacturing, Shipbuilding & Ship Repair, Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals, Refractories, Aluminium Downstream Industries, Mineral Beneficiation, Metal Downstream, Plastics, Glass Manufacturing, Logistics & Warehousing, Infrastructure, and Tourism & Hospitality, reflecting the State’s diversified, future-ready and resilient industrial strategy. The projects will be implemented across eleven districts –Balasore, Bhadrak Cuttack,Debagarh, Ganjam,Jajpur,Khordha, Koraput, Puri, Sambalpur and Sundargarh ensuring regionally balanced industrial development and expanded employment opportunities.
Key approved projects:
Nipha Limited will establish a railway component manufacturing in Khordha with an investment of Rs 384 crore, creating 310 iobs.
Inventgrid India will set up an Advanced Multi-Drone Manufacturing Centre in Ganjam with an investment of Rs 300 crore, generating 1,000 jobs, marking a major step in the State’s aerospace and defence manufacturing ecosystem.
Northern Express Infradevelopers will develop a shipbuilding and ship-repair facility in Bhadrak with an investment of Rs 339.40 crore creating 507 employment opportunities and positioning Odisha as an emerging maritime industrial hub.
J.G. Hosiery will establish an apparel manufacturing unit in Khordha with an annual production capacity of 149.76 milion pieces, with an investment of Rs100 crore, generating 2,350 jobs, making it one of the highest employment – generating projects in this clearance
Alventa Pharma will set up a pharmaceutical formulation unit in Khordha with an investment of Rs 100 crore, creating 250 jobs while Blue Mount Energy Private Limited will establish a sorbitol manufacturing unit in Cuttack with a production capacity of 17,000 MT per annum, with an investment of Rs100 crore generating 100 jobs.
Growing Tree Oil Refinery will develop an integrated solvent extraction unit, oil refinery, fish feed, prawn feed, cattle feed and poultry feed manufacturing complex in Cuttack with an investment of Rs100 crore, creating 250 jobs, strengthening agro-processing and chemical value chains
Sarvesh Refractories Ltd will expand its existing unit by setting up a silica brick manufacturing plant in Sundargarh with an investment of Rs62 crore, generating 100 jobs, while Jharkhand Grind Chem Private Limited will establish a refractories unit in Jajpur with an investment of Rs 67.15 crore, creating 225 jobs. Romco Aluminates (Koraput Private Limited will set up an alumina-based refractories manufacturing unit in Koraput with an investment of Rs 54.50 crore, generating 100 jobs, strengthening aluminium downstream industrialisation in southern Odisha.
Yash Flexi Pack Private Limited will establish a 12,400 MT flexible packaging products unit in Balasore with an investment of Rs 51 crore creating 150 jobs, while JBSS Glass Private Limited will set up a glass manufacturing unit in C uttack with an investment of Rs 50.85 crore, generating 263 jobs, expanding Odisha’s industrial manufacturing base.
In the steel, Mineral beneficiation and ancillaries metal downstream sectors, multiple large- scale projects have been approved including Kalinga Metalics Limited’s 4 MTPA iron ore beneficiation plant in Sundargarh with an investment of Rs 600 crore, creating 700 jobs: Shree Ram Iron and Alloys Private Limited’s 0.8 MTPA pellet plant in Debagarh with an investment of Rs 250 crore, generating 475 iobs; Rashmi Metallurgical Industry Private Limited’s 3.0 MTPA iron ore beneficiation plant with tailing pond in Sundargarh with an investment of Rs 350 crore creating 200 jobs; Aryas Ore Refinery Private Limited’s iron ore beneficiation plant in Sundargarh with an investment of Rs 51 crore, generating 149 jobs; and Eastside Subh Steel Private Limited’s steel processing unit in Sundargarh with aninvestment of Rs 60.05 crore creating 130 jobs.
Shrishti Trading Corporation will develop a logistic park and warehousing facilitly in Cuttack with an investment of Rs160.75 crore, generating 595 jobs, enhancing industrial connectivity and supply chain efficiency.
A 5-star hotel by MK Assets in Khordha with an investment of Rs 210 crore, creating 240 jobs; a 5-star luxury hotel by Manjeera Hotels & Resorts in Puri with an investment of Rs 200 crore, generating 450 iobs; a 4-star hotel by Panda Resorts in Puri with an investment of Rs 70 crore, creating 240 jobs; and a 4-star hotel by Shankari Devi Enterprise in Sambalpur with an investment of Rs 64.10 crore, generating 165 jobs.
Water Tech India wil establish a facility for plastic-based products in Ganjam with an investment of Rs 387 crore, generating 975 jobs.
