"There is abundance of fly ash and other raw materials required for production of cement....More fly ash will be generated from a number of power plants coming up across the state," he said at a function here.
The chief minister reiterated his government's effort to boost industrial activities in Bihar and said that it had taken a number of initiatives to attract private investment for industrial development and set up an Industrial Investment Promotion Council for the purpose.
Soon an Investment Commissioner will sit in Mumbai to invite private investors for setting up industrial units in Bihar, Kumar said and exuded confidence that as many as 600 industrial units with investment of Rs 600 crore would be set up in the state in time to come.
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