Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said her government has brought down man-days lost in the state due to strikes and disruptions to zero from 75 lakh per year during the erstwhile Left regime, as she made it very clear before the business tycoons and foreign delegates at the 6th edition of Bengal Global Business Summit (BGBS) that the thrust area of the state government now is industry and agriculture and the two should go hand-in-hand.
Addressing the inaugural session of the two-day BGBS at Biswa Bangla Convention Centre in New Town on Wednesday, Banerjee said: "We lost 75 lakh man-days every year during the Left Front rule but now, no man-days are lost."
Banerjee also stated that during the pandemic, Bengal's GDP grew, however, the GDP of India took a dip. She said: "While Bengal's GDP was in plus, GDP of the country's was in minus."
The Chief Minister added: "Bengal is the first state to organize a physical business summit since the Covid pandemic struck. The BGBS could not be held in 2020 and 2021 due to the spike in Covid infections.
"My thrust area is industry and agriculture and job opportunities in Bengal should go up," she added. Banerjee added that by 2023, the state will join the national gas grid.
Taking a dig at the Central government, Banerjee urged Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar to talk to Central authorities to ensure that industrialists are not disturbed by the agencies.
This story is from the Delhi 21 April 2022 edition of Millennium Post Delhi.
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