The State is all set to host the much-hyped three-day investment summit, Make in Odisha Conclave, at the Janata Maidan here from Wednesday.

The conclave to be organised by the State Government in association with Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP) and Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) would be the largest business summit for the State in which over 100 companies would participate.

The conclave would be inaugurated by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik while Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs Arun Jaitley would grace as the chief guest.

The city is now all prepared to lay red carpets for over 1,000 delegates at the venue. Noted artist Padma Shri Sudarshan Pattnaik has already displayed a unique sand art to welcome the guests at the airport here while the way to the venue, Janata Maidan, would be adorned with over 30 trivia brandings.

Drawn from the ‘Vision 2025: Odisha Industrial Development Plan’, the ‘Make in Odisha’ would make its best to highlight Odisha as an ultimate investment destination and diversify its investment opportunities across key focus sectors namely downstream and ancillary in metal, food processing, including seafood, chemicals, petrochemicals and plastics, textiles and apparel, defence, electronics, start-ups and tourism.

Noted industry captains like Kumar Mangalam Birla of the Aditya Birla Group, AM Naik of the larsen and Toubro ltd, Arundhati Bhattacharya of the State Bank of India, Gautam Adani of the Adani Group, T Krishnakumar of Hindustan Coca-Cola ltd, Sanjiv Puri of the ITC ltd, Sajjan Jindal of the JSW Groupand Venugopal Dhoot of Videocon ltd. among others.

While the Union Government has set a target to increase contribution of the manufacturing sector from current 16 per cent to 25 per cent to the GDP by 2025, the Make in Odisha is expected to play an eye-catching role in this regard.