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₹ 43,000 Cr Investment Likely For Bengal Industrial Growth Corridor
West Bengal’s proposed industrial growth corridor between Haldia and Durgapur may see an investment of ₹ 43,000 crore over the next three to five years; a senior WBIDC official issued a statement.
“An electrified, high-speed, freight-only corridor from Ludhiana in Punjab to Dankuni in West Bengal will boost the proposed industrial growth corridor of the state. Warehousing, among others, also holds immense potential with the availability of 12-13 million square feet in the Dankuni–Haldia-Kharagpur–Kalyani–Durgapur sector and huge investment can be witnessed”, West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation Limited (WBIDC) Executive Director, Rajesh Rathod said.
State Industry Minister, Partha Chatterjee said there had been a recent increase of interest in installing data centres and ethanol projects in the state. He also emphasized the projects the state has undertaken to strengthen infrastructure. Chatterjee mentioned the projects such as the ‘Jangal Sundari Karmanagari’ being developed as an integrated manufacturing cluster on an industrial township model on 2,483 acres in Purulia district.