The West Bengal
government has received over ₹90.51 lakh crore worth of investment proposals in
the last seven editions of the Bengal Global Business Summit, and out of that
projects worth over ₹12 lakh crore have already taken off, Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee said, on Tuesday. “In the last seven editions, over ₹90,51,000
crore investment proposals have been received. Today morning somebody also
questioned. For them I want to say that
I don’t need a clarification from you people who want to do politics. But, I
need the clarification for the common people. I am happy to inform you that
projects worth over ₹12 lakh crore have already taken off. And, the remaining
are in various stages of implementation,” Banerjee said on the first day of the
eighth edition of the Bengal Global Business Summit. “Bengal holds immense
potential for further investment because Bengal is one of the largest economies
of the country. Around 5000 acres of
land is available in our State for setting up industries,” she said.
At the event, Banerjee
announced the commencement of her pet project — the mining of basalt on 326
acre of land at the proposed Deucha-Pachami coal mine in Birbhum district. “Deucha-Pachami has reserve of 1,240
million tonnes of coal and 2,600 million tonnes of basalt,” she added. It is
Asia’s second largest coal mine.