Single Window clears Rs 70 cr logistics park

The State Level Single Window Clearance Authority approved the setting up of a logistics park at Kalinga Nagar steel hub proposed by Container Corporation of India (Concor).

The logistics park would come up on an area of 30 acres in the industrial cluster at an investment of Rs 70 crore.

The project is expected to be commissioned within three years of acquisition of land. The logistics park is set to offer multi-modal transport solutions for existing and upcoming steel industries in the cluster.

The facilities at the proposed park include two full length railway lines, paved surface for handling containers, warehousing for domestic and export cargo, bulk and break-bulk facility, modern container and bulk handling equipment.

 

Concor is also keen on setting up multi-modal logistics parks at other industrial clusters of the state like Angul and Jharsuguda. It is also interested to take up a container freight station at Paradeep. Presently, Concor operates two terminals in the state at Balasore and Rourkela.

The Single Window authority also gave its nod to steel equipment manufacturing facility proposed by SMS India Ltd. The facility is coming up at Khurda over 15-20 acres at a cost of Rs 174 crore.

It was decided at the meeting of the Single Window authority that the industries secretary will have a weekly interaction with the MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) signed industries to ensure that they do not face much hassles in project execution.

Besides, it has been decided that no land will be acquired for any industrial project within 500 metre radius on either side of a national highway or main road keeping in view the need for future expansion.

The meet focused on efficient fly ash management by industries given the threat posed to environment by large scale ash generation.

Fly ash utilization in the state has left a lot to be desired as only half of the total fly ash generated was utilized in 2010-11. Twenty seven coal-based power plants generated 21.18 million tonnes of fly ash and bottom ash in the last fiscal.

Only 10.68 million tonnes of this fly ash could be utilized, meaning a utilization of 50.42 per cent.

While fly ash utilization for some of the industrial units was as high as 99 per cent for some of the units, for others, it has been disappointingly low.