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The West Bengal Government has obtained firm investment commitment worth Rs 3,200 crore.
The State Finance Minister Amit Mitra said on Saturday at a meeting, organised by the MCC Chamber of Commerce & Industry, that seven new projects in sectors such as steel, cement, solar power and health care attracted investments.
A Rs 851.68 crore project comprising 700 tonnes per day sponge iron unit and 37 MW power plant tops the list of the proposed investments. This is an expansion project for Shakambhari Gagan group at its existing sponge iron unit in industrially backward Purulia district. The project is expected to be operational in 2016.
Another project for manufacturing construction steel at an investment of Rs 600 crore by Shyam Infra Ltd is coming up in the same district.
The Emami group is putting up a Rs 500 crore and 1.5 million tonne-a-year cement grinding project including a 10 MW captive power plant, also in Purulia.
The group is also implementing a Rs 500 crore 450-bed super-specialty hospital with a nursing training college project at Rajarhat on the north-eastern fringe of Kolkata.
Vikram Solar Group is setting up a photovoltaic solar modules unit at Flata SEZ, south of Kolkata, at a cost of Rs 500 crore.
UAL Ltd is putting up a plant to produce autoclaved aerated concrete block in Howrah district.
The Minister said a Rs 152.67-crore project to manufacture plastic (including PVC and HDPE) pipes and tanks by Utkarsh Tubes & Pipes Ltd in Hooghly district is also part of the firm investment commitments.
He said the projects would generate some 4,500 direct employment.
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