Cabinet approves utilisation of land to Tata Steel to set up industrial park

The Odisha cabinet on 21 June 2018, cleared a proposal by Tata Steel for utilisation of 1,735 acres of land for developing a private industrial park at Gopalpur, in Ganjam district.

Of the 2,970 acres of land handed over to Industrial Industrial Infrastructure Development Corp (IDCO) for setting up a steel plant at Gopalpur by Tata Steel, 1,235 acres notified by the Central government as SEZ. The balance 1,735 acre may be utilized by the said company for setting up a private industrial park as domestic tariff area.

The Cabinet also approved the lease of government land measuring 181.77 acres near Sambalpur in favour of IIM-Sambalpur for construction of a permanent campus. It also cleared alienation of government land of 881 acres in four districts free of cost in favour of Union Ministry of Railways for construction of Daspalla-Balangir segment of the crucial Khurda-Balangir new broad gauge railway line.

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Odisha recommends extension of Gopalpur SEZ

The Odisha government has recommended to the Union ministry of commerce & industry to extend formal approval for Tata Steel’s multi-product Special Economic Zone (SEZ) at Gopalpur for one year.

The state has requested to the ministry to place the matter before the Board of Approvals (BoA) on SEZs for consideration and approval. Tata Steel is the anchor tenant for the industrial park being developed at Gopalpur on an area of 2,952 acre. Establishment of SEZ requires a minimum land area of 2,500 acre. In March this year, Tata Steel obtained coastal regulatory zone (CRZ) approval from the Union ministry of environment & forests (MoEF) for the industrial park. 

The land has been acquired by Odisha Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (Idco) for an integrated steel mill originally proposed by Tata Steel in 1995. But later, the Tata Steel shelved the steel plant and instead proposed to construct a 50,000 tpa ferrochrome plant and one 4,00,000 rebar mill over an area of 400 acre along with the cluster of project over an area of 2,952 acre.