INDIAN STATE : ORISSA

Rail and Road Network

The state provides a good rail and road network and links to various strategic points with more than 2364 kms of rail route and 55,000 kms of roadways.

Sea Port

• Paradeep Port One of the major ports of India is Paradeep Port. This port is also the main outlet and inlet of the sea borne trade not only of the state of Orissa but the entire eastern region as well. This port is specialized in handling bulk-cargo and also handles containerized cargo.
• Gopalpur Port This port has been developed as fair weather port by the state government and is well connected with rail and road.
• Other ports Number of small ports are also there, they are
  • Dhamara port (this port is developed by TATA & L&T)
    
  • Chandbali port
    
  • Chudamani port
    
  • Kharanasi port

Airport

Biju Patnaik International Airport at Bhubaneswar has been declared by the Government of India as Customs Airport for the unloading of imported goods and loading of export goods. The Airport also has an Air Cargo Complex with customs clearance facilities and bounded warehouse. Bhubaneshwar is well connected to Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore.

Inland Container Depot (ICD)

It has been established at Balasore to provide the intending exporters a terminal facility to complete their documentation formalities and give 'ready to sail' container for export.

Agriculture Export Zone (AEZ)

The Government of Orissa has signed an MoU with the Agricultural and Processed Foods Export Development Authority (APEDA) for setting up an Agriculture Export Zone (AEZ) for turmeric and ginger in the tribal - dominated Kandhamal and Koraput districts. The AEZ will promote exports of organic ginger and turmeric produced in the contiguous areas of Kandhamal and Koraput.

Special Economic Zones (SEZ)

In the Foreign Trade Policy, Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is particularly a delineated duty free enclave to upscale production, augment export and generate employment.

Considering the potential available in the state, Government of India, in principle have already approved for setting up of 13 numbers of sector specific SEZs in Orissa under alumina & aluminium, IT, metallurgical based engineering & ancillary down stream industries, textiles and garments and steel etc. in private sector participation. These SEZs will open a new chapter in the export performance of the state by providing the required atmosphere for attracting national and international investments to Orissa.

Social Infrastructure

Education

Orissa is progressing in the field of education and is getting popular as a hub of engineering, management and medical education in central & eastern India. The state already has large number of highly ranked schools like NIT Rourkela and XIM Bhubaneswar etc. It has 9 Universities, 88 Engg./MCA colleges, 18 Medical colleges.

Apart from this new Institutes coming up are IIT Bhubaneswar, NISER, IIT Kharagpur Campus at Bhubaneswar and BIT. Also Vedanta group to establish a world-class technical university with an annual intake of 100,000 students in 95 disciplines.