: Addressing the curtain raiser to the Bengal Global Business Summit at FICCI’s Federation House in New Delhi on Friday, West Bengal Minister of Finance and Commerce and Industries Amit Mitra invited the business community to attract investment opportunities for the State.
The ‘Bengal Global Business Summit’ will be held in Kolkata on January 7 and 8, 2015. To project the State as an emerging and ideal investment destination, senior IAS officers will visit parts of Europe and Asia and hold meetings with investor communities to hold road shows for the Summit.
Stating that the State government had doubled its industrial production and the State Domestic Product since the All India Trinamool Congress assumed office, Mr. Mitra said the State had also doubled its tax collections from Rs. 21,000 crore to Rs. 40,000 crore in 2013-14.
The State had featured in the top spot in bank lending to MSMEs, Mr. Mitra said and added that 4,000 acres of land was made available for investment. Another 3,000 acres would be ready for investment in the coming six months.
Dwelling on the changes brought about in the State since the AITC came to power, FICCI president Sidharth Birla said: “The State government has not only come up with a new West Bengal Investment and Industrial Policy 2013, but also various sector-specific policies in the areas of textiles, MSME, ICT to provide a fillip to the industrial investments in the State.
