“Bengal Is The Gateway To South-East Asia … It’s Rising And Shining. It’s A Land Of Billion Opportunities.”
Kolkata : West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee invited industrialists to set up businesses in the state and assured them that political differences would not block the road to development, PTI reports.
“…We will continue our relations, Centre-State relations,” Banerjee, whose party Trinamool Congress had crossed swords with the Centre on the GST, Land Ordinance and increase in the FDI limit in insurance, said.
The Chief Minister was addressing businessmen from across the globe after inaugurating the two-day Bengal Global Business Summit along with Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. Wooing investors, she assured them of providing all facilities needed for setting up industry in all sectors and said, “Land is available. No problem for land. We have the land use policy and land bank.”
However, she said the government was not going to acquire the land forcibly.
“Bengal is the gateway to South-East Asia, Bengal is number one in MSME when it comes to growth in bank loans for the sector,” she said. “We have our land bank and land map, land policy ready and enough manpower. Our manpower is skilled and cheap,” Mamata said claiming that the state had witnessed big difference in the past three years. Referring to the core committees set up by her government for different sectors, she said, “The captains of industries are guiding us, advising us”. “Bengal is rising and shining. Bengal is a land of billion opportunities,” Banerjee said appealing to industrialists to invest in the state. ‘Create right environment’: In a strong message to Mamata, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said in his speech that she had a responsibility to deliver on promises and create an environment to attract investments.
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Day 1: Bengal Gets Rs 93,600-Cr Commitment
Kolkata: West Bengal received commitment of Rs 93,600 crore on the first day of the Bengal Global Business Summit, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said. “The minister of shipping (Nitin Gadkari) today announced projects in Bengal for
Rs 41,600 crores, then SAIL announced investing Rs 40,000 crore and if you add the share of the auction of coal blocks of Rs.12,000 crore, it will Rs.93,600 crore only for today,” Banerjee said. “If in one day, it is more than Rs.1 lakh crore, tomorrow it will be more than our expectations,” she said during the closing address on the first day of the two-day summit.
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