Bhubaneswar (Orissa) [India]June 29 (ANI): As a step towards creating new employment opportunities and promoting economic activity in rural areas, the state government has decided to establish district-level Industrial Investment Promotion Agency (DIPA) in various districts. Decided. This was decided at a high-level meeting led by Executive Director Suresh Chandra Mahapatra.

“These institutions should focus on facilitating and holding small businesses. They should act as a single point of contact for all entrepreneurs and investors,” said Maha Patra. It should facilitate them from the time of project development and capacity building to financing, production initiation and market coordination. It will also facilitate them to take advantage of various support from the government in accordance with general provisions.

In addition, the Executive Secretary instructed collectors to play an active role in promoting SMEs in their respective districts. “MSME is the driving force of economic growth, and promotion in the district will bring about fair growth,” added Maha Patra. The collector was asked to provide the collector with a decent office space to install the unit.

It has been decided that DIPA will be managed by three experts under the direct supervision of each collector. They will be set up in different districts in stages to provide feedback and learning about the institution’s functions and results from each previous stage. It was intended to pilot interventions in three districts: Ganjam, Sundalgar, and Jagachinpur. The industry’s chief secretary, Hemant Kumar Sharma, said the first phase of pilot guidance could begin by August. It will then be expanded to areas such as Anuguru, Barasoa, Jajapur, Jharsuguda, Keonjhar, Rayagada and Sambalpur, based on learning from the pilot stage. A goal has been set to cover all districts by March 2022. (ANI)