Bhubaneswar: Union Home Minister is slated to attend a series of high-profile events during his visit to Odisha on Friday and launch key projects worth over Rs 3,275 crore.
Official sources said 69 projects worth Rs 1,159.03 crore will be inaugurated and foundation stones of 130 projects worth Rs 2,116.06 crore are to be laid by Shah during his visit.
Giving further momentum to the efforts inspired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of “Sahkar se Samriddhi”, the Home Minister will dedicate to the nation the Sulphuric Acid Plant established by IFFCO along with inaugurating and launching other important development projects related to the cooperative sector, dairy development and the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Shah will dedicate to the nation the Sulphuric Acid Plant (SAP-III) installed at IFFCO’s Paradip plant at a function to be held in Paradip.
Subsequently, he will launch several important
initiatives related to the cooperative sector at the IDCO Exhibition Ground, Unit-III in Bhubaneswar. These include the release of the State
Cooperative Policy, signing of a Memorandum of Understanding for the establishment of a School under Tribhuvan Cooperative University, an MoU for the revival of Badamba Sugar Industries, and the dedication of 1,567 Common Service Centres operated by PACS/LAMPS.
In addition, the programme will include the virtual inauguration of need-based infrastructure for 141 PACS, launch of the RCS Office Portal, digital launch of the Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) portal of National Cooperative Organics Limited, and the launch of “Coop Marque” developed by National Cooperative Exports Limited as well as “Savidya”, an AI-enabled multilingual digital learning platform.
Initiatives related to OMFED will also be presented during the programme to strengthen the dairy sector, and registration certificates will be distributed to two milk producer cooperative societies.
Grants will also be released to beneficiaries under the Chief Minister Kamdhenu Yojana, and an MoU will be signed with National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) for the upgradation of a Training and Demonstration Centre.
On this occasion, a video presentation on projects related to various departments will be made.