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Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Saturday (October 11, 2025) virtually laid the instauration stones for 2 fishery projects worthy astir ₹160 crore successful Odisha.
He laid the instauration stones for the fishery projects portion launching the ₹24,000-crore Pradhan Mantri Dhan Dhaanya Krishi Yojana (PM-DDKY) and a ₹11,440-crore Mission for Aatmanirbharta successful Pulses successful Delhi.
The fishery projects included a ₹100-crore integrated aqua parkland astatine Basantapur successful Sambalpur territory and a ₹59.13-crore food marketplace astatine Pandara successful Bhubaneswar.
Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi, his Deputy K.V. Singh Deo and others joined the lawsuit virtually from a State-level relation connected OUAT premises successful BHubaneswar.
Majhi said the food marketplace task successful Bhubaneswar is different important inaugural nether the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana (PMMSY).
"Of the ₹59.13 crore, ₹30 crore volition beryllium fixed by the Centre and remaining magnitude by the State," the main curate said.
The task volition beryllium implemented successful collaboration with the authorities government's Fisheries and Animal Resources Department and the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC), and it volition straight payment 143 traders and make indirect employment for much than 2,000 people, helium said.
The main curate said the food marketplace volition conscionable the request of consumers successful Bhubaneswar and Cuttack.
A memorandum of knowing has been signed with the BMC to instrumentality the task and the enactment volition beryllium completed by November 2027, helium said.
The Chief Minister said that the integrated aqua parkland astatine Hirakud, which volition beryllium built implicit 95.47 acres of authorities land, volition further make modern food farming.
Of the ₹100 crore concern to beryllium made successful the project, the cardinal authorities volition lend ₹60 crore portion the remaining ₹40 crore volition beryllium spent by the authorities government.
"This volition beryllium the archetypal aqua parkland task successful eastbound India. The project, which volition beryllium completed by January 2027, volition alteration Sambalpur into a centre of excellence successful modern food farming," Mr. Majhi said.
Majhi said PM-DDKY is being implemented successful 100 districts crossed the nation, including 4 successful Odisha — Kandhamal, Malkangiri, Sundergarh and Nuapada.
The Chief Minister said that the Modi authorities has been implementing caller initiatives for farmers since it came to powerfulness successful 2014.
"In the past 11 years, our state has go self-reliant successful galore fields. The state needs to go self-reliant successful the accumulation of large nutrient grains, oilseeds and pulses. Even today, our state is babelike connected overseas countries for pulses and edible oil. We person to trim this dependency," the Chief Minister said.
Majhi besides highlighted the State BJP government's initiatives successful the past 15 months.
He said the implementation of PM-DDKY and Mission for Aatmanirbharta successful Pulses volition bring prosperity to the farmers.
The main curate said that done this scheme, Odisha's farmers volition not beryllium lone connected paddy cultivation, but tin besides diversify to cultivate pulses, oilseeds and different currency crops and gain much money.
Mr. Singh Deo said Odisha has already go self-reliant successful atom production, and the clip has travel to execute it successful pulses and oilseeds arsenic well.
