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Bengal bags over Rs 2.84 lakh crore of investment proposals: Mamata
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SME Times News Bureau | 08 Feb, 2019
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said the state has
secured over Rs 2.84 lakh crore of investment proposals in the Bengal
Global Business Summit this year, compared to about Rs 2.20 lakh crore
of investment offers received last year.
"Till now, whatever we
have counted... the investment proposals received during this summit
were Rs 2,84,288 crore," she said while addressing a session at the
fifth edition of the Bengal Global Business Summit on the second day.
With these investment proposals, 8-10 lakh more jobs will be created in the state, she said.
Last year, the state had netted over Rs 2,19,925 crore of investments.
During
the two-day summit, 86 memorandums of understanding (MoUs) were signed
and 45 business to consumer (B2C) and 1,200 business to business (B2B)
meetings were held.
"This itself proves the credibility, accountability and sincerity of participants," she said.
Over
5,000 delegates coming from 36 countries participated in the flagship
business event being organised at Biswa Bangla Convention Centre.
She also invited industrialists and overseas delegates to the next edition of the global investors' meet.
"It
is because of you (delegates) the best Bengal has successfully
organised the conference and no other state in India can do like this.
With our initiatives and vision, we prove that Bengal is not only the
best but also the destination of investments in the near future," she
said.
Banerjee said over 50 per cent of over Rs 10 lakh crore of
investment proposals, received by the state in earlier four editions of
the summit, was under implementation.
She also said the state has
created "investors' friendly atmosphere" and was able to change the
perception with no loss of man-days and not allowing any strikes and
workers' unrest.
The state government had added another 100 acres
to the Silicon Valley Hub in the city after getting an overwhelming
response from four IT companies acquiring about 74 acres of the existing
100 acres, initially earmarked for the project.
"In the second
phase of the project, Cognizant, Tech Mahindra, Capgemini, the Indian
Statistical Institute, the Society for Applied Microwave Research have
applied for (land)," she said.
Banerjee said, in the first phase,
Reliance Jio wanted 40 acres to set up a state-of-the-art centre for
IT-enabled telecom, big data analytics and AI (artificial intelligence)
while TCS sought 20 acres in the hub which will add 15,000 more IT
professionals to their current workforce plan of 58,000 in Kolkata.
Recently,
she had also said Capgemini of USA asked for 10 acres to start
cutting-edge IT business in the city while RP Sanjiv Goenka Group's
First Source would start its operations with four acres of land.
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