Kolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday said the Bengal govt will unveil its industrial land policy before Durga Puja, covering land pooling, direct purchase and a single-window system for investments.“The commerce and industry department has submitted the draft to chief secretary Manoj Agarwal. We will unveil the policy before Puja,” Adhikari said at Milan Mela Prangan, where he handed land allotment letters to 33 industries.The allotments are expected to bring in Rs 60,000 crore in investments and create 62,000 jobs. Recipients must complete their projects and employ locals within three years.Adhikari said Gautam Adani will visit Bengal on Thursday to lay the foundation stone of a 2,000-bed hospital in New Town. The Ambanis are willing to invest in five to six sectors, he said, and their team will visit soon.He added that the Jindal group has sought a meeting with him, and that industrialists Sanjeev Goenka, Harshvardhan Neotia and Sanjay Budia are positive about the state’s industrialisation.An agreement for five airports in the state under the Centre’s UDAN scheme, including Kalaikunda, Balurghat and Purulia, is likely to be signed next week, he said.Adhikari announced a toll-free number, 155335, for industrialists facing extortion or threats. He said he would meet investors twice a month.He also said his govt has set up a Rs 5,000 crore fund for industrial incentives.Addressing industrialists, Adhikari criticised previous govts for Bengal’s industrial decline. “CPM had ruined everything,” he said. “Then Mamata Banerjee came in and said investors would have to find land themselves.”He said former chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee made some efforts but his party was deeply negative about industrialisation. “It was because of Mamata Banerjee’s oppositional politics that Tata left Singur,” he said.“I was part of the previous government for some time. Everything was negative. It was all about Rs 500 allowances. While the whole country was talking about self-reliance, the previous govt wanted allowance dependence,” he added.
