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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee attacks 'faulty' business policy of Mamata government -Sanjib Chakraborty

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee attacks 'faulty' business policy of Mamata government -Sanjib Chakraborty

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published Published on Jan 14, 2013   modified Modified on Jan 14, 2013
-The Times of India

KOLKATA: Days ahead of the Bengal Leads Summit much-touted investment summit by the Mamata Banerjee government in Haldia, former chief minister BuddhadebBhattacharjee on Sunday alleged that the state government's faulty policy on land acquisition and SEZ will drive away even the existing industries in Bengal. Bhattacharjee argued what good is a policy if it isn't enabling new industries in the state.

"Infosys wants an SEZ status. Wipro wants it too. They are here for business. They have a reason. They need to export. This government will not allow it. So they will go to some other state. And to work in these very companies, our boys and girls to work in these very companies have to go to other states. Why?" he said. "What good is a policy if it is not being an enabler (for new industries)? Industrialisation is the only way to generate employment and not a single new industry has been set up in Bengal in this one year and eight months," he said at a party meeting in Kalindi.

"Take for example, Singur. It is a crematorium now. Why did we want Singur? We believed three sectors need to be developed in Bengal -automobiles, steel and petrochemicals. Chennai and Gurgaon are the country's auto hubs. A Tata project, therefore, wasn't just about a single car. The ancillary units would have catalysed fresh projects. That is why I told them, even personally, that how can we give away 400 acres from the project site. The project couldn't have taken shape in less than 900 acres," he said. "We couldn't keep them. They went to Gujarat. Now multi-national car manufacturer Ford has also invested there. So have others. Chennai, Gurgaon and Gujarat (read Sanand) can do it and Bengal will remain in dark," the former CM added.

"People were made to understand that the Left Front government only meant Singur and Nandigram. Your land will be forcibly taken away. We had acquired land here in Naihati (North 24-Parganas), Kharagpur and Purulia. Was there any land acquisition problem? People willingly gave their land," he said. Taking a dig at claims of the state that nearly a million new jobs have been created, Bhattacharjee said, "Where are the new jobs? To have a new job, one needs new industries. Has there been a single addition to what we'd done. Instead, many set up in our tenure are now looking for a way out of the state," he said.

Using his Singur logic to explain the alleged lull in fresh IT investments in Bengal, Bhattacharjee said, "In 2001, we framed our IT policy. And since then, we'd created 70,000-80,000 new jobs there. Our youths are skilled and educated. Now I'm told that even the existing companies are going elsewhere. The office space price has fallen sharply. Where are we heading towards then?" "We believe the people will say the last word in a democracy. It is for you to decide the wrongs we'd done and the wrongs being done now," the CPM leader said.

The Times of India, 14 January, 2013, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Buddhadeb-Bhattacharjee-attacks-faulty-business-policy-of-Mamata-government/articleshow/18012537.cms


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