Bhubaneswar: In the State Export Award ceremony organized by the MSME Department and DEPM, Odisha, Shri Prafulla Samal, Minister, MSME, W&CD & SSEPD gave away state export
awards to 24 exporters in terms of certificates and trophies. Whereas, the best export award went to the M/s. Vedanta Ltd., Jharsuguda in the large industry category, it was given to M/s. R.B. Agarwalla & Company Pvt. Ltd. in the micro and small category.
Trophy and Certificate of Merit was given to the top 06 exporting companies namely, M/s. Jay Bharat Spices Pvt. Ltd., Cuttack for exporting spices, Falcon Marine Exports Ltd., Bhubaneswar for exporting frozen shrimps, Indian Rare Earths Ltd., Matikhal,
Ganjam for exporting limonite, garnet and Thorium Nitrate, Hindalco Industries Ltd., Sambalpur for exporting aluminium ingot/sow, Infosys Ltd., Bhubaneswar and Suryog Computech (P) Ltd., Bhubaneswar for exporting IT software.
Similarly, Certificate of Excellence was given to 14 exporters exporting companies namely, M/s. Terra Block Machinery Pvt. Ltd., Bhubaneswar for exporting brick making machine, M/s. Jindal Stainless Ltd., Jajpur for stainless steel steel/coil items, M/s Indian Oil Corporation Ltd., Paradip for petroleum products, Odisha State Cooperative Handicrafts Corporation Ltd., Bhubaneswar for handicrafts, M/s. Divya Multigrains Pvt. Ltd.,
Bhubanewar for spices, M/s. Sreeragam Exports Pvt. Ltd. Bhubaneswar for frozen shrimps, M/s. LSM Trading & Exports Pvt. Ltd., Bhubaneswar for chrome concentrate, M/s. IMFA
Ltd., Bhubaneswar, M/s. Ferro Alloys Corporation Ltd., M/s. Balasore Alloys Ltd, Balasore and TATA Steel Ltd., Keonjhar for high carbon ferro chrome, Mindtree Ltd., Bhubaneswar
and Learnitude Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Bhubaneswar for IT software exports.
Special Certificates were given to the J.P. Handloom Nuapatna, Cuttack for handloom products and B.L. Goyal, Kantabahanji, Bolangir for exporting herbal gum. On this occasion, Minister Shri Prafulla Samal called upon the exporters to continue the tempo of growth in exports and thereby creating employment in the state. He also lauded the efforts of DEPM and other export related organisations in promoting exports from Odisha.
On this occasion, Shri L.N. Gupta, ACS, MSME stated that Odisha is consistently ranked amongst top 03 states in the country in terms of live manufacturing investment and it has been designated as ‘Champion State’ for registering phenomenal growth in exports. Export value from the state, which was merely Rs.1982 crore in 2015-16, has gone up to Rs.52,500 crore in 2017-18. He stated that the state has a vision to achieve an
export turnover of Rs.1 lakh crore by 2025 by following export strategy focusing on improvement in standards and quality of products, value addition in traditional exportable products and product and market diversification, downstream and ancillarisation of industries, unleashing the potential of e-Commerce and development of eco-tourism in the
state.
On this occasion, the Minister, MSME also distributed letters of appointment to the 16 newly recruited Assistant Managers (Project). They have been recruited by OPSC and posted to various DICs to expedite the delivery of services relating to project related services to entrepreneurs. The programme was attended by Shri P. Nath, IAS, Director of Industries, Odisha, Shri S.K. Jena, Director, EPM among others.
Basanta Kumar Mohanty Information Officer Bayojyestha Samman, 2018 Dept. of SSEPD, Govt. of Odisha
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• Sri Braja Mohan Mishra, Balangir – Lifetime achievement in the field of Art
• Sri Dukhishyam Tripathy, Balangir – Lifetime achievement in the field of Music
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