<p>Kolkata: Bengal’s Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday announced a slew of new policies including plans to double the state's exports, modernise its logistics and promote renewable energy manufacturing, while opening the Bengal Global Business Summit here.</p>.<p>Banerjee also announced a policy to promote bio-fuels and a new sub-sea cable landing station at the sea-resort of Digha to help improve internet connectivity in the eastern region.</p>.West Bengal: Failing to pay high ambulance fare, man travels 200 km in bus with son’s body in bag.<p>The chief minister also said the state’s economy was growing at 8.41 per cent and would turn into USD 212 billion this fiscal.</p>.<p>She also told a star-studded gathering of business leaders including petro-chemicals to retail tycoon Mukesh Ambani, Energy baron Sanjeev Goenka and Wipro’s Rishad Premji, that four new industrial corridors would be set up including Dankuni-Kalyani, Tajpur port-Raghunathpur, Dankuni-Jhargram and Durgapur to Cooch Behar in north Bengal.</p>.<p>The Bengal Global Business Summit, an annual affair, is being attended by several hundred companies from 17 countries.</p>.Bengal's Singur Saga: A Timeline of Tata Motors' Nano Project.<p>Highlighting the fact that the state was home to some 90 lakh MSME units employing 1.3 crore people, Banerjee pointed out that it also housed a large leather manufacturing complex which was being expanded to be the Asian continent’s biggest besides boasting of one of the largest IT hubs in the country.</p>.<p>The chief minister also claimed that her state was a model of tranquillity and good governance, though she also accused the opposition of running a campaign to smear the state’s image. </p>
<p>Kolkata: Bengal’s Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday announced a slew of new policies including plans to double the state's exports, modernise its logistics and promote renewable energy manufacturing, while opening the Bengal Global Business Summit here.</p>.<p>Banerjee also announced a policy to promote bio-fuels and a new sub-sea cable landing station at the sea-resort of Digha to help improve internet connectivity in the eastern region.</p>.West Bengal: Failing to pay high ambulance fare, man travels 200 km in bus with son’s body in bag.<p>The chief minister also said the state’s economy was growing at 8.41 per cent and would turn into USD 212 billion this fiscal.</p>.<p>She also told a star-studded gathering of business leaders including petro-chemicals to retail tycoon Mukesh Ambani, Energy baron Sanjeev Goenka and Wipro’s Rishad Premji, that four new industrial corridors would be set up including Dankuni-Kalyani, Tajpur port-Raghunathpur, Dankuni-Jhargram and Durgapur to Cooch Behar in north Bengal.</p>.<p>The Bengal Global Business Summit, an annual affair, is being attended by several hundred companies from 17 countries.</p>.Bengal's Singur Saga: A Timeline of Tata Motors' Nano Project.<p>Highlighting the fact that the state was home to some 90 lakh MSME units employing 1.3 crore people, Banerjee pointed out that it also housed a large leather manufacturing complex which was being expanded to be the Asian continent’s biggest besides boasting of one of the largest IT hubs in the country.</p>.<p>The chief minister also claimed that her state was a model of tranquillity and good governance, though she also accused the opposition of running a campaign to smear the state’s image. </p>