Concor to get land for logistics parks by Mar 2014

The mini-ratna Central PSU has evinced interest to establish MMLPs at five industrially important locations

The Odisha government will hand over land to Container Corporation of India (Concor) for its proposed logistics parks by March 2014.

"Concor has requested us to expedite land allotment for their multi modal logistics parks (MMLPs). We are going to hand over land to them by March 2014”, said a senior government official.

Concor chairman and managing director Anil K Gupta today called on Odisha chief secretary J K Mohapatra and detailed his organization's plans for the state.

Concor, a mini-ratna Central PSU has evinced interest to establish MMLPs at five industrially important locations- Jharsuguda, Jajpur-Keonjhar Road, Paradeep, Muniguda and Angul.The MMLP at Jharsuguda needs 28.31 acres of land and is expected to be commissioned by the end of 2015.

The logistics park planned at Jajpur-Keonjhar Road will be spread over 96.84 acres and promises to offer direct and indirect jobs for around 2000 people. The park would cater mainly to steel industries at Kalinganagar.

The MMLP at Paradeep has been proposed near Siju station on the Paradeep-Haridaspur rail line under East Coast Railway's (ECoR) jurisdiction. The park is coming up on 60 acres of land owned by Odisha Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (Idco). Rail India Technical and Economic Services (Rites), the engineering and consultancy arm of Indian Railways, has been engaged to prepare the techno-economic feasibility study for the project. Major industries like Posco, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL), Indian Farmers Fertilisers Cooperative Ltd (Iffco), Essar Steel and Paradeep Phosphates Ltd (PPL) are expected to be beneficiaries of the Paradeep MMLP.

Investment on each of these logistics parks would be in the range of Rs  50-100 crore.

The logistic parks will include facilities like warehouses, distribution centres, storage areas, offices, truck services, parking lots, truck terminals, container rail terminal, container handling facilities, cold storages, distribution centers, air cargo points, lorries, maintenance points, service stations, hospitals and restaurants. In addition, such parks would be equipped with weighbridges, telecommunication facilities, banks, health awareness units and recreation centres.

The logistics parks to be developed on the public private partnership (PPP) mode, would be served by roads, railways, inland water ways and air ways.

Besides logistics parks, Concor is also planning to set up its cold chain infrastructure in the state. Initially, the logistics provider wants to set up three such cold chain facilities for storage of green vegetables and other perishable food products. It is also keen on having a dedicated cold storage unit at Bolangir in western Odisha.