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BGBS attracts investment proposals worth Rs.2.50 lakh crore, says Mamata

Kolkata: Addressing the industrialists on the concluding day of Bengal Global Business Summit, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today announced that BGBS has attracted investment proposals worth at least Rs.2,50,104, crore ($37 billion).

She said that the manufacturing sector has drawn proposals valued at Rs.1,60,958 crore.

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

“Very restrictively speaking, whatever we counted the investment proposals are not less than 2,50,104 crores,” she said.