A team from Grant Thornton Bharat, a global consulting firm, met Odisha Deputy CM and Minister for Agriculture & Farmer’s Empowerment and Energy, Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo, today and discussed new strategies in the agriculture and energy sector.
Principal Secretary Energy Vishal Kumar Dev, Principal Secretary Department of Agriculture and Farmers’ Empowerment, Arabinda Kumar Padhee, and officers from both Departments were present during the meeting.
From Grant Thornton Bharat, Mr. Manoj Kharb, Amit Kumar, Ramendra Verma, Padmananda V and Prasad N were present.
The team expressed the keenness of Grant Thornton Bharat to work with Government of Odisha in the agriculture & energy sector so that their expertise in varied fields like capacity building training in best practices in agri-value chains, implementation of sustainable cold chains, monitoring of renewable energy projects, conducting of a pilot study on Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) at 33/11 kV substations etc. can be leveraged.