(From left) West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee with state finance minister Amit Mitra and Pranav Adani, managing director of Adani Wilmar, at Bengal Global Business Summit 2018 in Kolkata on Wednesday. Photo: Indranil Bhoumik/MintKolkata: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said that the state needs to strike a balance between industry and agriculture for economic growth, echoing her predecessor Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee. While she fiercely resisted acquisition of farmland for industrial projects, she said she is not opposed to factories being set up in West Bengal. Under an agreement with the West Bengal Transport Infrastructure Development Corp., Ola is to acquire up to 5,000 cabs and hire unemployed people to drive them, the company said in a statement. Among big ticket investments committed on Wednesday, Pranav Adani, managing director of Adani Wilmar Ltd, said his group had invested Rs750 crore in West Bengal.

Source: Mint January 17, 2018 18:11 UTC