Shyam Metalics announces ₹20,000 crore investment push in Bengal

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Sanjay Kumar Agarwal (L), associated managing director, Shyam Metalics and Brij Bhushan Agarwal, president and managing director, Shyam Metalics and President of Indian Chamber of Commerce. Photo: Special arrangement

Shyam Metalics, 1 of the country’s starring metallic conglomerates, on Tuesday (May 19) announced Rs 20,000 crore concern successful West Bengal successful the coming years. The company’s Chairman and Managing Director said they are hoping for an easier way up for concern maturation aft the alteration successful government. 

“We employment implicit 25,000 radical successful Bengal and we program to summation it to astatine slightest 45,000 successful the adjacent fewer years. With the caller epoch successful the State, we deliberation a batch of cardinal funds volition travel for amended development,” CMD, Brij Bhushan Agarwal said connected Tuesday. 

They are besides acceptable to motorboat a railway manufacturing portion successful Kharagpur and volition put astatine slightest ₹4,000 crores successful this task successful the coming years. They recently acquired a mill works that has been closed for astir 15 years, and are acceptable to committee enactment successful that mill by this year’s end. 

Mr Brij Bhushan besides said that astir 90% of their workers are from Bengal and they are inclined to proceed recruiting from present to guarantee amended employment of the younker of the State. 

Calling it a arrogant infinitesimal for Bengal, Sanjay Kumar Agarwal, Joint Managing Director, said that they are hoping for a better land argumentation from the caller authorities to assistance them acquire land and commencement enactment faster than before.  

“We volition spot that we get a chance to springiness work to people from this State, so the out-migration stops. We worth the enactment ethic we person successful Bengal,” Mr Sanjay said. 

He besides added that they are 1 of the archetypal to denote specified a immense concern successful Bengal aft the regime change and asked different industrialists to travel suit. 

According to the apical officials of the company, they stated that Bengal consumes lone 15,000 metric tonnes of coated steel, similar to Kerala, adjacent though the colonisation successful Bengal is almost triple that of Kerala. An authoritative added that this was mostly owed to a deficiency of maturation and said that determination is monolithic imaginable successful the State to summation depletion done better industrialisation. 

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Published - May 20, 2026 11:04 americium IST

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