Mamata Banerjee gets biz proposals worth Rs. 2.5L cr.

The two-day Bengal Global Business Summit organised by the West Bengal government concluded recently attracting investment proposals worth at least Rs. 2,50,104 crore ($37 billion), CM Mamata Banerjee announced.

Addressing industrialists on the summit's concluding day, she said the manufacturing sector has drawn proposals valued at Rs. 1,16,958 crore.

Banerjee said the proposals have come from a wide range of sectors like mining, textile, power, IT and telecom, urban development, housing, tourism, health transport and education.

'Many MoUs have been signed and many are in the process. We are yet to make detailed estimates of the proposals. The investment proposals are not less than Rs. 2,50,104 crore,' she said.

The previous edition of the BGBS had netted investment proposals of Rs. 2,43,100 crore, of which proposals worth Rs. 95,000 crore have taken off and the rest are under process, the chief minister told the media.

TOI