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Orissa’s steel hub to get airstrip, connecting road

Bhubaneswar: In a bid to provide air connectivity to Orissa’s steel hub, Kalinga Nagar industrial complex, the State Government today decided to set up an airstrip and develop road connecting to the area.

According to Finance Minister Prafulla Ghadei, who presided over a meeting on development of the steel hub, the airstrip would be developed on the public-private-partnership (PPP) model.

“The Secretary of Steel and Mines Department is asked to identify land required for the airstrip and coordinate with other departments and agencies for setting of the facility,” Ghadei told reporters.

Earlier, the industrialists of Kalinga Nagar which housed steel units including Tata Steel, NINL (Nilachal Ispat Nigam Limited), Jindal Stainless Limited, Mesco and others, had pointed out several problems like bad connectivity to the area.

Besides, Ghadei said that an overbridge would be constructed at Manpur railway station at an estimated cost of Rs 40 crore. The cost would be equally shared by the Centre and the state government.

Ghadei said the Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (IDCO) had been asked to shift its water pipeline from Jajpur-Duburi road to facilitate four-laning of the road.

This apart, the Finance Minister said the work for the Rs 320 crore Duburi-Keonjhar road has already started which would help transportation of iron ore from Keonjhar to Kalinga Nagar. - PTI

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