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Asit Kumar Tripathy, Principal Advisor to the CM, led the “Industry care” meeting with the industries and MSME units operating in the Angul and Dhenkanal districts to solve several issues and concerns related to land, power and logistics.
According to the reports, Senior officials from the Industries, MSME, Forest, Environment (Pollution Control) and Energy department of the Government of Odisha were on 2 days visit to Angul to engage with the industrial units formally and to address their issues on a high priority basis. The team led by Tripathy met forty-two large-scale and more than fifty MSME industries of the region including NALCO, NTPC, MCL, GAIL, Tata Steel BSL, Vedanta and JSPL among many others.
The report further added that 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.
Senior officials from the department of MSME including Satyabrata Sahu, Principal Secretary, MSME, Md Sadique Alam, Director of Industries, along with the district Collectors of Angul and Dhenkanal Siddharth Shankar Swain and Saroj Kumar Sethi participated in the event.
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