The State Government is determined to take full advantage of the sweeping changes happening in economic reforms and surge ahead with its programme of industrialisation. The State is endowed with vast natural resources - mineral, marine, agricultural and forest wealth. It has abundant reserves of coal, iron ore, bauxite, chromite, limestone, dolomite and manganese. It also has tin, nickel, vanadium, gemstones and granite. Of late, vast potential of diamond and gold has been indicated. Water resources are plentiful. Apart from the country's deepest port at Paradip, a wide network of new railway linkages connecting strategic locations and roads and national highways under PMGSY is fast emerging.

With these advantages Orissa has become a major destination of steel plants, thermal power plants, alumina/aluminium projects, sponge iron companies and oil refineries. And the State Government is trying its best to woo large investors in not just setting up mega plants but also in development of infrastructure and periphery growth to boost empowerment of the marginalized, improve the economy and create employment. Efforts are simultaneously on to place Orissa on the world tourism map.