orissadiary.com, Nov 19, 2010
Bhubaneswar: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday set the four factors of employment, development of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), capacity-building and meaningful corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities as must-do for industries planning to operate in the state.
Inaugurating the five-day Enterprise Odisha 2010, the 15th edition of the flagship annual event of the Odisha State Council of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) at the Exhibition Ground here, he appreciated the efforts of the CII in exploring the international linkages for the industries in the state for the first time by attracting the participation from South East Asian nations in the event whose objective is to showcase the products and services of industries in the state and provide a platform to the producers and consumers to directly interact.
Present on the occasion, industries minister Raghunath Mohanty said that a meeting of the representatives of CII with the chief minister has identified several action areas including employment generation and CSR activities.
He appreciated their initiative in formulating District Development Projects for the districts of Koraput, Jajpur, Kalahandi, Balasore and Balangir.
Industries secretary T Ramachndru pointed out that every inch of the land in the state was fit for some sort of industrial activity and thanked the CII members for bringing in their capital and entrepreneurship to set up industries here.
He suggested that the industries take care of employment beyond the unskilled workers only and patronise the local small entrepreneurs who are being marginalized in the current phases of industrial activity.
Chairman, CII Eastern Region Kurush Grant said that as India's premier business association, CII is looking forward to working closely with the Odisha government for all round development of the state.
He said that the skill centre at Balasore and Green Bhubaneswar project as some of the CII initiatives which is expected to take the collaborative effort to new heights.
Chairman of the CII State Council RK Jena delivered the welcome address and set the backdrop for the discussion by mentioning the RBI report which has put Odisha at the top of the list of States for which industries have received sanctions of investment from the banks.
Odisha has logged approval for investment of more than Rs 75,000 crore. Maharastra and Gujarat are in the second and third spot respectively.
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