{"id":3551,"date":"2010-05-12T09:19:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T13:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=3551"},"modified":"2010-05-17T11:59:13","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T15:59:13","slug":"astha-international-of-gujarat-has-several-plans-for-odisha-textile-mill-near-bhubaneswar-astha-city-near-berhampur-hotel-in-puri-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/3551","title":{"rendered":"Astha International of Gujarat has several plans for Odisha: Textile mill near Bhubaneswar, Astha city near Berhampur, Hotel in Puri, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Following are excerpts from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/india\/news\/astha-international-to-invest-rs-5000-cr-in-orissa\/395130\/\" target=\"_self\">a report in Business Standard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Astha International Limited, one of India&#8217;s leading direct selling companies based out of Surat (Gujarat), would invest Rs 5000 crore on a slew of business ventures in Orissa by the end of 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The investment which is to be raised through a mix of debt and internal accruals as well as from its 4.5 lakh odd distributors across the country, will be made on developing an integrated township project called &#8216;Astha City&#8217; near Berhampur, a star hotel in Puri and a textile mill in Bhubaneswar.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, Astha International would set up a dairy production unit, a multiplex and a hyper mall in the city.<\/p>\n<p>The company has opened an office in the city and this would serve as the zonal office for the states of Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal.<\/p>\n<p>Together, all these projects will generate direct employment for over 10,000 people in the state.<\/p>\n<p>All these projects are expected to be commissioned by the end of 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;&#8230; The company would first begin with the integrated township project for which it has already identified around 200 acres of land near Berhampur.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The company is betting big on the Orissa market which currently accounts for about 50 per cent of its overall revenues.<\/p>\n<p>Astha International which has operations in 12 states of the country, clocked a revenue of Rs 300 crore in the last fiscal.<\/p>\n<p>Out of 4.5 lakh distributors of the company, 1.5 lakh are based out of Orissa.<\/p>\n<p>Astha International, which has more than 10,000 products in 26 different segments, also plans to float a bank called Astha Bank by 2011-12.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have already got the license of the Reserve Bank of India for starting banking operations and our bank will commence operations from 2011-12&rdquo;, Chauhan claimed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>The website of this company is <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.asthainternational.in\/\">http:\/\/www.asthainternational.in\/<\/a>. In that site they mention an <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.asthainternational.in\/route-map.asp\">Astha city in Gujarat<\/a>. Following is from Samaja.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-content\/uploads\/image\/20100512a_011101002 aastha city berhampur.jpg\" target=\"_self\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"399\" width=\"515\" src=\"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-content\/uploads\/image\/20100512a_011101002 aastha city berhampur.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Following are excerpts from a report in Business Standard. Astha International Limited, one of India&#8217;s leading direct selling companies based out of Surat (Gujarat), would invest Rs 5000 crore on a slew of business ventures in Orissa by the end of 2012. The investment which is to be raised through a mix of debt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,48,446,15,85,7,6,374],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-berhampur-gopalpur-chhatrapur","category-bhubaneswar-cuttack-puri","category-food-processing","category-district-ganjam","category-hotels-and-resorts","category-district-khordha","category-district-puri","category-textiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}