Investment Opportunities in Orissa: Energy, Power and Infrastructure

Date: April 26th-28th, 2002
Venue : Park Royal Inter-Continental, Nehru Place, New Delhi.

The idea behind organizing RDC International Convention was to develop a forum for entrepreneurs, industry & business leaders, investors, managers, policy makers & planners from government & industry, experts & analysts and targeted beneficiaries for presentation, discussion and exchange of ideas to evolve viable strategies for sustainable development, management and utilization of resources. The convention aimed at providing an opportunity to both investees and investors to display their strengths, capabilities and investment proposals on a wide range of state-of-art technologies, products and services.

OBJECTIVES

• To identify the scope and potential opportunities available in Orissa for investment and development.
• To formulate strategies for effective tapping of resources and convert opportunities into concrete outputs.
• To facilitate interaction among the partners and beneficiaries to catalyze investments in the targeted sectors.

THE TARGETED SECTORS

1. Energy & Power:

1. Generation, Transmission and Distribution
2. Exploration, Mining and Refinery

2. Infrastructure:

1. Information & Communication
2. Transport & Roads, and Housing

THE THEMATIC ISSUES OF THE CONVENTION

1. Investment Climate and Opportunities:

1. Resources & Infrastructures
2. Policies & Incentives

2. Trends and Patterns of Investment vis-à-vis other states

3. Investment Promotion:

1. Investment and development
2. Inter-institutional cooperation in promoting investments
3. Institutional support and networking for investment promotion
4. Enabling mechanisms / barriers for investments

4. Project Planning, Financing, Coordination and Implementation

5. Venture Capital Investments

6. Case Experiences / Presentation of Project Profiles and Collaboration.

SOUVENIR ISSUE ON CONVENTION:

A Souvenir Issue of EDI Update, our bi-monthly magazine, on First RDC International Convention was published on successful completion of the programme compiling messages, articles, discussion inputs of keynote speakers and advertisements.