Odisha greenlights $22M women's hostel to anchor Kalibeti textile hub workforce

State cabinet approved Rs 210.36 crore for a women workers' hostel at Kalibeti Industrial Estate in Khurda, easing a key labour-supply bottleneck for Odisha's growing textile and apparel manufacturing cluster.

— Filed Tue, 9 Jun, 2026, 15:49 IST · Source Apparel Resources India · Updated

Odisha Cabinet approved a Rs. 210.36 crore women workers' hostel at Kalibeti Industrial Estate in Khurda to support female employees in the state's expanding textile and apparel manufacturing hub.

Why this matters

Builds on Odisha's recent $40M+ textile and apparel investment push that anchored 12,500 manufacturing jobs, addressing the women-worker housing gap critical to scaling the Kalibeti cluster.

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