India, Jan. 10 -- The Odisha government on Friday approved a 10 GW ingot-wafer and 5 GW solar cell manufacturing in the state with a proposed investment of Rs.10,000 crore.

The development comes two days after Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu-led government cleared a greenfield 10 GW ingot and wafer manufacturing facility in Andhra Pradesh, with an investment of Rs.6,675 crore by Tata Power Renewable Energy Ltd.

The Odisha cabinet, which met on Friday, chaired by chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi, approved the project that will be the first-of-its-kind upstream solar manufacturing facility in the state. The project will be developed in two phases with an overall capacity of 10 GW ingot-wafer and 5 GW solar cell manufactur...