Odisha granted permission to centres proposal for mega food parks.
Union Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) has asked the Odisha government, following the amendment of guidelines of Mega Food Park Scheme, to send proposals for developing new mega food parks in the state.
40 mega food park projects have been approved by MoFPI in as many as 23 states which are in various stages of implementation. The Centre missive to the state comes after the revision of the existing guidelines. J P Meena, additional secretary, MoFPI, wrote to Chief Secretary, Jugal Kishore Mohapatra, “The existing guidelines have been revised by the ministry based on the experience in project implementation and feedback from various stakeholders.”
Under the revised guidelines, the state government’s entities/cooperatives without the requirement of forming a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) have been allowed to take up mega food park projects and are exempted from setting up a processing unit in the park. As per the amended guidelines the ministry has already invited fresh expression of interest (EoI), which is executing mega food park scheme to develop modern infrastructure facilities for setting up of food processing industries on cluster basis.
Two mega food parks – Huma Coastal Mega Food Park in Ganjam district and MITS Mega Food Park at Rayagada were approved by the ministry in the state.
However, on the ground of delay in complying with the requirement of Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) the in-principle approval of Huma Coastal Mega Food Park has been cancelled and the state government has urged the Centre to reconsider the decision.
Source: Business Standard
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