Directorate of Export Promotion and Marketing has been set up to promote export of goods from the State of Odisha and to provide marketing assistance to SSI units of the State. This Directorate registers SSI units and concludes rate contract for purchases by Govt. Departments and Undertakings. The Directorate of Export Promotion & Marketing, Odisha has been declared as the Nodal Agency for giving marketing support to the registered industrial units and the rate contract holding industrial units of the State Government. The Directorate also strives to promote the export activities of the State. Three Non-Plan scheme as (i) Directorate of E.P.& M.,(ii) Testing Laboratories,(iii) Quality Control of Household Electrical Appliances and four State Plan Schemes i.e. Establishment & Strengthening of Orissa Investment and Export Promotion Centre located in the office of Resident Commissioner, New Delhi, Up-gradation of Testing Laboratories, Export Promotion & Publicities and Implementation of Cement (Quality. Control) Order, 2003 of Govt. of India are implemented in the Directorate to provide marketing assistance to SSI units and Export Assistance to the exporters for promotion of export, Marketing assistance is rendered by way of registration of industrial units, conclusion of rate contracts controlling quality of the products manufactured by the industrial units through periodical inspection and drawing of the sample and their tests in its Testing Laboratories.