Kolkata: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said that the state has received investment proposals worth Rs 3.42 lakh crore at the 6th edition of the Bengal Global Business Summit. Addressing the valedictory session of the Bengal Global Business Summit (BGBS) at the Biswa Bangla Convention Centre, Banerjee said: “We have received investment proposals worth Rs 3,42,375 crore during BGBS 2022.”
Citing the summit as a global industrial festival, the Chief Minister added, “We have seen 137 Memorandums of Understanding and Letters of Intent signed during the summit covering logistics, infrastructure, capacity building, etc. Only this edition of BGBS will create more than 40 lakh new jobs for the unemployed youth,” added Banerjee.
Highlighting the opportunities for the service sector in the state, Harshvardhan Neotia, Past President, FICCI and Chairman, Ambuja Neotia Group, said, “The services sector has a very promising future. The Chief Minister has alluded to our human talent that the service sector feeds on. Bengal has some of the brightest minds and together we can take the economic agenda of this state forward very fast and very effectively.”
Briefing about the potential for the tourism sector in West Bengal, Rudra Chatterjee, Chair, FICCI West Bengal and MD, Luxmi Group, said, “Over the three years private sector and the government of West Bengal together will invest Rs 5,000 crore which will create 200,000 jobs in the tourism.” He further added that there is a need to ensure that more flights, especially international, come to the state. /BI/
