Raipur, July 1, 2025/Chief Minister Shri Vishnu Deo Sai, while addressing the inaugural ceremony of Chhattisgarh Industry Dialogue-2 held in Raipur today, said that Chhattisgarh is no longer limited to the core sector, but is ready to become a national center for cutting-edge industries like semiconductors, artificial intelligence, pharma, defense, aerospace and green hydrogen.
Welcoming the investors, Chief Minister Shri Sai said that Chhattisgarh’s new industrial policy is focused on employment and economic prosperity. We are taking our state out of the Naxal-affected past and making it the most dynamic industrial and technical hub in the country. This state has now become the most attractive destination for investment.
In the program, Chief Minister Shri Vishnu Deo Sai said that in the cabinet meeting held a day earlier, we have approved the draft of the Chhattisgarh State Logistics Policy-2025. This policy will prove to be a milestone in establishing Chhattisgarh as a national logistics hub. The Chief Minister said that the geographical location of Chhattisgarh is the central point of the country’s connectivity. This policy will attract national and international investment in the logistics sector and e-commerce, strengthen export infrastructure and expand affordable storage facilities. The logistics policy will promote the establishment of dry ports, inland container depots in the state, industries, trade and farmers will get modern, affordable storage and distribution facilities, trade and exports will be boosted through reduction in logistics costs.
Chief Minister Shri Sai said that the Public Trust Bill will remove unnecessary complexities in business and civic life. Decriminalizing the provisions of some laws will provide relief to businessmen from getting unnecessarily entangled in court cases and reduce judicial expenses. He said that through this bill, ease of doing business and living will be ensured. Ease of Doing Business will improve. The Chief Minister made it clear that the Chhattisgarh government’s endeavor is to create an environment for investors, industrialists and citizens in which there are minimal obstacles and maximum possibilities in every field of development.
Chief Minister Shri Sai said that more than 350 structural reforms have been implemented in the last one and a half years, which have led to unprecedented improvements in the Ease of Doing Business and Speed of Doing Business. The investment environment in the state has become so strong that investment proposals worth five and a half lakh crore rupees were received in just six months, which is a record in the industrial history of Chhattisgarh. He said that national and international investors showed great enthusiasm at the Investors Summit held in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru. Investment proposals worth Rs 15,184 crore were received in the Delhi summit, Rs 6,000 crore in Mumbai and a large investment proposal in the energy sector in Bengaluru. Chhattisgarh attracted an investment of Rs 1,63,749 crore in the financial year 2025, which is 3.71 percent of the total investment of India.
Chief Minister Shri Sai informed that land was allocated to Polymatech Company for semiconductor investment in just three months and NOC was issued and now the company has started work on a project of Rs 1,143 crore, where the target is to produce 10 billion chips annually. He said that our aim is to establish Nava Raipur as the ‘Silicon Valley of Chhattisgarh’. Single window system 2.0 has been developed for the convenience of investors. This system integrates online application, departmental approval and subsidy distribution. Chief Minister Shri Sai said that our system is so transparent and fast that all approvals for setting up an industry can be obtained in one click.