The News National :
West Bengal has received an unprecedented investment of more than Rs 18,000 crore in the first two months of 2024 in various segments like steel, aluminium, ductile iron, steel casting, and steel processing, breaking the state’s record in heavy industries in any year in the last decade.
The Union Government data reveals that Bengal had received an investment of Rs 16,261 crore only in the month of January that would create nearly 5,000 jobs.
The sectors that directly benefited from investment in January are steel, aluminium, and sulphur.
In February, the state got Rs 2,269 crore of investments in the sectors, including steel casting, industrial insulation, steel processing, clothing, ductile iron pipe, and railway carriage industries, paving a job opportunity for over 11,000 people.
