August 1, 2013
Your hope is Bengal, I am here because Mumbai is my hope – Mamata Banerjee at `Bengal Beckons`, Mumbai
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee put forward the potentialities present in West Bengal at `Bengal Beckons`, the Industrial Meet organized by West Bengal Government at World Trade Center, Mumbai. She won the hearts of the Mumbai-based industrialists present on the occasion.
`Your hope is Bengal, I am here because Mumbai is my hope. Mumbai is the financial capital. Bengal has the potentiality, talent, cheap labour. Earlier there were bandhs and strikes, there used to be 78 lakhs mandays lost. Last year it came down 5000. This year it is nil. We have made land banks, land maps for industrial purpose`, said the West Bengal CM.
Here are the excerpts of comments made by some of the industrialists –
Mukesh Ambani, Chairman, RIL : The fact that you have come here within 48 hours of Panchayat Elections says that you mean business.
Uday Kotak, VC and MD, Kotak Mahindra Bank : Didi, you have won the hearts of Mumbai. Now is the time the purse of Mumbai opens up for you.
Yogi Deveshwar, Chairman, ITC : Bengal got a bad reputation, now there will be a race among industrialists to reach Bengal. Come to Bengal… Now's the time. The early bird will reap the advantages. We have invested Rs 3000 Cr in food processing. CM, you have won the day today…Mukesh has committed, so now many more follow…because he is the leader.
CS Varma, Chairman, SAIL : Bengal is a top investment State for SAIL.
Chanda Kochhar, MD and CEO, ICICI Bank : We have seen your passion on TV, today we felt it in person as you addressed us.
N Chandrasekaran, MD, TCS : There is a lot of good human resources in Bengal.
The representatives from India Inc included Mukesh Ambani, Adi Godrej, N Chandrasekaran, Nitin Paranjape, YC Deveshwar, Uday Kotak, Harsh Goenka, Chanda Kochar, Venugopal Dhoot, Madhur Bajaj, Harsh Neotia, Ashok Hinduja, Karan Paul, Arup Roy Chaudhari of NTPC, BC Tripathi GAIL CMD and SAIL CMD CS Varma and Subhalaxmi Panse of Allahabad Bank, among others.
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