Bhubaneswar: The state government Monday approved five investment proposals worth `2.04 lakh crore that will create jobs for 27,645 people. The investment proposals were approved at the 20th High-Level Clearance Authority (HLCA) meeting held under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
This is the highest ever investment approved by the HLCA so far, said Industries Secretary Sanjeev Chopra. All the proposals approved in the meeting belong to the focus sectors — chemicals, petrochemicals and metal downstream.
In the petrochemical sector, the HLCA gave its nod to two giant proposals for setting up projects in Odisha. The first one by Haldia Petrochemicals is to set up a hydrocarbon processing complex comprising a light crude oil refinery, an aromatics as well as ethylene cracker complexes near the proposed Subarnarekha port.
The project would be set up with an investment of `78,225.00 crore which will provide jobs for 10,000 people, Chopra said. Indian Oil Corporation’s proposal is for expanding its existing refinery unit from 15 MTPA capacity to 25 MTPA, and setting up a petrochemical complex comprising a dual-feed cracker, naphtha cracker and petcoke gasification plant at Paradip.
IOC will invest of `1,00,300 crore, employing around 12,595 people. The project will ensure the availability of building block feedstock to ancillary and downstream units in the chemical and petrochemical sector. Another proposal by IOC to set up a 1.2 MTPA-capacity purified terephthalic acid (PX-PTA) complex with an investment of `9,136 crore in its existing Paradip refinery, employing around 3,200 people, has also been approved. In the metal downstream sector, the HLCA approved the proposal of Jindal (India) Ltd to set up a cold rolling complex of 0.50 MTPA and steel processing plant at Kalinga Nagar Industrial Complex in Jajpur district.
The projects would be set up with a total investment of `1,676 crore, providing jobs to 1,300 people. A proposal by Talcher Fertilizer to set up a coal-based urea fertilizer complex of 1.99 MTPA capacity at Talcher in Angul district with an investment of `14,732 crore, employing around 550 people, was also approved.
