Turning the wheels to East!

Well connected
Strategically located on the east coast of India with a long coastline of 480 km, Odisha offers good overall connectivity. "Odisha has a robust road network of 10,000 km of National and State highways that connects the hinterland of resource-rich regions and mother plants to largest ports on the east coast for easy access to the markets of ASEAN region. This is very strongly supported by a rail network of 2,540 km for a seamless movement of freight," Chopra informs.

Facilities visited by The Machinist
iMerit Technology, Bhubaneshwar - providing AI based and machine learning to solutions to global clientele.
Falcon Marine Export facility, Bhubaneswar - India's largest sea food exporter.
Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt. Ltd., Khurda - Coca Cola's third largest bottling plant in India.
Paradip Port - One of the key maritime gateways on the East coast of India.
Paradip Phosphates Limited - One of the largest fertilizer producing facilities in India.
Paradip Plastics Park (Work in Progress) - Aimed at creating a manufacturing base for the downstream plastic industry.
Note: Except for the plastics park (which is still under development), all of the other facilities are running successfully and are contributing considerably to the success of their respective organisations.

Driving of ease of doing business
"Being one of the pioneer in Single Window Clearance procedures, the state has drastically reduced timelines for various approvals; green category projects are accorded approval in 15 days while for other industries, the final project approval is accorded in less than 30 days. Only recently, Odisha launched first of its kind single window portal called GO-SWIFT that will support the investors throughout the entire life cycle of the project," Chopra shares. According to Chopra, Odisha has undertaken several initiatives over the past year in terms of implementation of ease of doing business framework, creating an enabling policy framework and development of state-of-the art industrial infrastructure facilities to make it easy for companies to set up and do business in the State. Odisha also has a huge industry ready land bank of 1,00,000 acres, which can be viewed through the GIS based Govt. of Odisha Industrial Portal for Land Use and Service (GOiPLUS). "The success experienced by large conglomerates across different sectors is a testimony to Odisha's conducive industrial ecosystem," he adds.

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