Directions were given by Chief Secretary Ajay Singh to forest-industries-agriculture department to make work plan jointly for establishing plywood industry in Chhattisgarh. Based on it, at favourable places the plywood industries would be established in State. A discussion was held for establishing plywood industry in the State, which was chaired by Chief secretary Ajay Singh at secretariat (Mahanadi Bhawan).
The discussion in detail revolved around raw materials, pollution from industry, consumption of power, employment generated from such industry, regularity of production and other technical issues.During the meeting industries department under Industrial Policy 2014-19, threw light on the provisions and facilities being provided by State Government for industries to the present industrialists who are linked to plywood industry.
Additional Chief Secretary C K Khetan, secretary industries department Dr Kamalpreet Singh, secretary forest department Atul Shukla, Managing Director, State Infrastructure Sunil Mishra, Chief Forest Conservator R K Singh along with industrialists from Kolkata, Bangalore, Mumbai, Haryana, Raipur, Rajnandgaon and others were present. Mr. Devender Chawla, President, AIPMA also attended this meeting.