Odisha plans roadshows abroad to attract investments
Bhubaneswar, June 30: The Odisha government has planned to organise roadshows in Italy, Germany and Saudi Arabia to attract investments ahead of the Make in Odisha Conclave, a minister said on Saturday.
A 13-member team is scheduled to visit different countries to meet and woo investors for the Make in Odisha Conclave, which is to be held in Bhubaneswar from November 11 to November 15.
Industries Minister Ananta Das said in the first phase, the team will visit three countries, Italy, Germany and Saudi Arabia.
The tour is scheduled from July 1 to July 10, he added.
The team will be led by Odisha Industries Minister Ananta Das and department secretary Sanjeev Chopra.
The team would showcase its investment potential and the slew of measures taken for ease of doing business to the foreign companies during the tour.
In the second phase, the team will be visiting China, South Korea and Japan during the first or second week of August, informed the Minister.
Notably, the state government has partnered with the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) for the second Make in Odisha conclave after the Confederation of Indian Industry's (CII) withdrawal from the conclave.
At the inaugural edition of Make in Odisha in December 2016, Odisha drew investment intents valued at Rs 2.03 trillion at the event.
Sixty per cent of those investments are now in various stages of approval or implementation, said the minister.
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Dissanayake on way to become Sri Lankan President, postal voting results suggest
Colombo (PTI): National People's Power (NPP) leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake seems set to become Sri Lanka’s ninth executive president on Sunday with an impressive show in the presidential election, according to postal voting results of seven electoral districts.
The polling took place on Saturday from 7 am to 4 pm local time at over 13,400 polling stations in 22 electoral districts.
The 56-year-old leader had taken an unassailable lead over his rivals, the main Opposition leader, Sajith Premadasa, 57, and the incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe, 75.
According to results declared in postal voting of seven of the 22 electoral districts, the NPP leader has gained 56 per cent of the votes, with his rivals trail him by grabbing 19 per cent each.
According to the trend shown in postal voting results, analysts say Dissanayake is likely to win the presidency by 50 per cent plus votes.
This comes after predictions that a second preference vote count might be needed to determine the winner among the three front runners.
The election, dubbed a three-cornered contest between Wickremesinghe, Dissanayake, and Premadasa of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), shows signs of being a landslide for Dissanayake, who would become Sri Lanka’s first ever Marxist head of state.
