Team Odisha on US visit to woo IT sector investors

BHUBANESWAR: A day after the Odisha cabinet approved a new semiconductor policy, a high-level delegation of the government on Saturday left for the USA to showcase the state’s potential in the electronics and IT sector and woo investors.

The delegation led by Minister for Electronics and IT Tusharkanti Behera will be in San Francisco for a week and interact with investors and the who’s who of IT, semiconductor and chip manufacturing companies at Silicon Valley. After Dubai and Japan, this is the third overseas investors’ meet of team Odisha, which is trying to hard sell the state’s potential to attract investments from the Silicon Valley. As India aspires to become the global semiconductor hub in next few years, Odisha’s push for a robust semiconductor ecosystem is aimed at developing the state as a major destination for investors.