Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi led a delegation from Odisha on a visit to Mundra Port where he proposed a two-coast strategy urging companies to balance operations across India’s western and eastern seaboards. The visit forms part of the state’s push to deepen port-led industrialisation and to integrate Odisha into global value chains. Officials said the initiative seeks to attract investment and expand manufacturing and logistics capacity along the east coast.

Majhi said the west coast has matured into a logistics and manufacturing hub while the east coast anchored by Odisha offers the next frontier for scalable, cost-effective expansion. He framed Odisha as a natural gateway to South East Asia and the wider Indo-Pacific trade network and urged industry leaders to consider balanced coastal development for long-term competitiveness. The chief minister presented the two-coast approach as central to defining the next decade of industrial growth.

The state flagged a robust investment pipeline, noting 433 proposals and 148 projects already under way, with combined approvals and implementation valued at Rs 8.37 trillion (tn) and Rs 2.86 trillion (tn) respectively, signalling improved conversion from intent to execution. Odisha is sharpening its value proposition across petrochemicals, chemicals, logistics and downstream manufacturing backed by policy support, faster clearances and expanding industrial corridors. The delegation, which included the industries minister Sampad Chandra Swain and senior bureaucrats, reviewed the Special Economic Zone (SEZ), container handling infrastructure and bulk cargo facilities including very large crude carrier jetties. Officials said the exposure is expected to form Odisha’s own coastal infrastructure strategy.

Underlining a port-driven growth model, authorities pointed to the transformative role of Paradip Port and the emerging industrial clusters around it as evidence of the state’s focus on export competitiveness. With assets such as Dhamra Port and Gopalpur Port, Odisha is building a multi-port ecosystem supported by logistics hubs and SEZs aimed at improving market access and job creation. The Mundra visit was described as an effort to leverage coastal infrastructure as a growth multiplier aligned with the Purvoday vision.