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The West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party State president, Samik Bhattacharya, connected Tuesday (May 12, 2026) said that their caller authorities volition follow caller onshore policies to bring industries to the State.
Addressing a radical of industrialists present astatine the 139th Annual General Meeting of Bengal National Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Mr. Bhattacharya said that astatine 1 constituent successful clip Bengal utilized to vie with Maharashtra successful industries, but nether the previous government that civilization has been destroyed.
“We indispensable bring bigger industries into West Bengal, there is nary aboriginal without it... We person fertile land, if we bash not person onshore policies, past industries volition not beryllium possible... We committedness that nary enactment volition inquire for wealth if you privation to unfastened factories... We volition bring a caller onshore policy, the models which person succeeded successful Punjab and Haryana,” Mr. Bhattacharya said.
Mr. Bhattacharya, a elder BJP person and Rajya Sabha MP, said that Bengal is geographically blessed, and the State should gully much investments, including overseas investments. He said that large-scale industrialisation is the mode guardant to halt the exodus of radical from the State and retain talent successful West Bengal.
Industrialist, Sanjay Jain, MD of the Siddha Group who was besides contiguous astatine the lawsuit said that the caller authorities enactment whitethorn beryllium a bully accidental for the State to pull investments, accelerate municipality development, and fortify its presumption arsenic a large economical destination successful eastbound India.
“With the enactment of the caller authorities successful West Bengal, the manufacture and concern assemblage is hopeful astir renewed absorption connected infrastructure development, faster argumentation implementation, easiness of doing business, and capitalist confidence,” Mr. Jain said portion addressing the manufacture members.
In a related development, Professor Alok Kumar Rai, manager of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta addressed a league astatine the Bharat Chamber of Commerce successful Kolkata where industry experts and academics called for amended concern and synergy between academia and industries.
“Institutions of higher learning and centres of absorption excellence request to enactment successful concern with manufacture to hole the State for the demands of a rapidly transforming nationalist and planetary economy,” Naresh Pachisia, President, Bharat Chamber of Commerce said connected Tuesday (May 12, 2026).
Addressing the aforesaid issue, Prof. Rai said that Bengal’s aboriginal lies successful shifting from a accepted manufacturing mindset to a high-value “knowledge-based” economy, utilizing the state’s acquisition infrastructure and bridging the spread betwixt world learnings and its nonstop implications connected the industries.
