Rs 2.84 lakh crore in Bengal’s investment kitty: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee

“Till now, whatever we have counted... the investment proposals received during this summit were Rs 2,84,288 crore,” she said 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 MoUs were signed and 45 business to consumer (B2C) and 1,200 business to business (B2B) meetings were held. Over 5,000 delegates coming from 36 countries participated in the event being organised here. She also invited industrialists and overseas delegates to the next edition of the global investors’ meet. Banerjee said over 50 pc of over Rs 10 l cr of investment proposals, received by the state in earlier four editions of the summit, was under implementation.

“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, adding, in the first phase, Reliance Jio wanted 40 acres to set up a centre.