Bhubaneswar: Shedding its image of abject poverty, starvation and child selling, Odisha in recent years has embraced growth and prosperity by adopting certain fiscal corrective measures and attracting huge private capital, said speakers at the ‘Resurgent Odisha’ seminar organized by The Times of India in Bhubaneswar on Friday.

CM Naveen Patnaik and experts from different fields said that the state had become a favourable destination for investors, both from within and outside India, and had the potential to become a gateway to Jharkhand, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.