Bhubaneswar, Aug 10 (KNN) The Odisha government in collaboration with the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), organised an investors’ meet in Ahmedabad on Tuesday to propel its efforts to be the country’s leading investment destination.

The primary objective of the state government for hosting this investor meet was to showcase the state’s investment potential in the textile, metal, metal downstream, chemical, and various other sectors.

Odisha in the past few years is trying to diversify from its inherent strengths in the mining and metal industries and thrust itself towards downstream and ancillary to value add to the basic metal sector, chemicals, petrochemicals and plastics, food processing, textile and apparel, and other new-age sectors.

Addressing the gathering, Pratap Keshari Deb, Minister – Industries, MSME & Energy, Government of Odisha and Hemant Sharma, Principal Secretary, Industries Department presented the “Odisha Business Ecosystem and Investment Opportunities”, highlighting the state’s stable government, progressive policies, natural advantages, industry-led infrastructure development, availability of industrial land, port-led development model, and highly skilled human resources, which gives the state a distinct competitive advantage over others.

During the address, Sharma also stressed on 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 which play an important role in setting up industries and manufacturing units in the state.

In the investor’s meet, a one-to-one “Business to Government (B2G) meetings were also held with the industry stakeholders. The state- led delegation met with the FICCI, Gujarat Chamber of Commerce & Industry, GESIA, Gujarat Dyestuff Manufacturers Associations and Indian Laminates Manufacturers Associations to understand the needs of the industry.  (KNN Bureau)