Bhubaneswar: Odisha is ready for the ensuing ‘Make in Odisha Conclave-2018’.
In a review meeting held on Monday at the State Secretariat here, Industry and Higher Education Minister Ananta Das asked the concerned departments to accord online approval to the prospective delegates by November 9.
Chief Secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi directed all the departments to submit a comprehensive list of their nodal and facilitating officials to the Industry Department by October 31. He also directed the departments to showcase potential investment projects of Odisha in the conclave.
Das directed the respective departments to lead their sectoral sessions for harnessing the investment potential.
Development Commissioner, R. Balakrishnan advised to tie-up the event with other field visits and cultural programmes tinged with an Odishan aroma to make it vibrant and memorable.
The conclave will be a five-day long event from November 11 to 15, 2018. It will be inaugurated on November 11 at Janata Maidan in the presence of various industry associations, business chambers, confederation of industries, potential investors from the world business community and above all, country partners like Japan and United Arab Emirates. Business leaders, both from India and abroad will participate in the event.
The event will have 24 broad thematic sessions covering sectors like food processing, MS&ME, aerospace and defence manufacturing, electronics and IT, women entrepreneurship, biotech meet, media and entertainment, academic meet, smart city promotion, downstream industries in metal sector, chemicals and petrochemicals, logistic and infrastructure, healthcare investment, skill development, tourism investment, textile and apparel, agri-business investment and agri-marketing etc.
This year’s conclave will be marked by a 36-hour smart hackathon in the skill development sector. Around 4,000 students from various technical colleges and universities have registered themselves for participation in the hackathon as of now. So far, 293 students have been selected and grouped in 93 teams. The hackathon will start from 9 am on November 13 and will close at 10 pm on November 14. The students will do hackathon innovations in CET, Bhubaneswar. The outcome of the hackathon will be presented in a seminar at the conclave on November 15.
A central control room has been set up to address any issue and provide the required information to participants. The control room has started functioning from today with the telephone number 18003457111,email-mio2018@investodisha.org. The control room will shift to Janata Maidan, venue of the conclave from November 9 with the phone number of 9556344800 and the same e-mail id.
Principal Secretary, Industry, Sanjeev Chopra presented the updates and outlined the issues for discussion in the meeting.