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Orissa requires investment of Rs 57, 562 cr: Chief Minister
Bhubaneswar, May 09: Orissa would require investment of Rs. 57,562 crore, both in the government and private sectors, during the tenth plan to achieve the targeted growth rate of 6.2 per cent.
Bhubaneswar, May 09: Orissa would require investment
of Rs. 57,562 crore, both in the government and private
sectors, during the tenth plan to achieve the targeted growth
rate of 6.2 per cent.
In view of this, the government had been demanding
special category status for the state and its endeavour to
achieve it would continue, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik
said today.
The state government had fixed a target to reduce poverty
by seven per cent and create employment opportunities for 8.6
lakh people within the plan period to achieve the targeted
growth rate, he said while addressing the first meeting of the
reconstituted state planning board.
The state needed to be pulled out of the morass of
persistent poverty and to march forward steadily to achieve
high levels of equitable and sustainable socio-economic
development comparable to other states, he said.
The deliberations at the meeting, presided over by the
chairman of the board Adwait Prasad Singh, gravitated towards
key areas of agriculture and management of natural resources,
peoples' participation and empowerment, social sector
including education, health, women and child welfare, rural
infrastructure including sanitation and water supply and
industrial revival and infrastructure development.
Bureau Report