Compliments were showered on her government at the third edition of Bengal Global Business Summit here from captains of industry as well as ministers of the Narendra Modi government.
Lauding her government, Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani said, "As an investor, I stand here to say that West Bengal is among the top of the list in terms of doing business and recommend the state as an ideal investment destination."
Banerjee in her turn told a galaxy of industrialists, "Our government will work as your worker."
Slamming her detractors, she said, "Some people are saying that there has been no investment. It is not true. Projects worth Rs 94,000 crore investment have already taken off. Some of the projects we had signed have already started.
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Her comments came against the backdrop of the violence that broke out at Kaliachak in Malda, which had prompted the union home ministry to seek a report from the state government.
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said, "Summits of this kind held every year clearly demonstrates the intention that the need of the hour is to generate growth, increase revenue and fight poverty for which investments are required."
Banerjee said, "Land won't be a problem in Bengal as the state government has a land policy and a land bank."
"We have cheap and skilled labour and sufficient power," she told the business summit, where a book on investments that have come up in the past four years of Trinamool rule was also released.
Heaping praises on her, Union minister Piyush Goyal said, "The book about the achievements of the state government in trade and industries in the last four years truly reflects the transformational change that we have witnessed in the state."
"I must thank Mamata Didi for her support to the GST Act that the Centre has been trying to pass. Her MPs have been very vocal in their support to Prime Minister Narendra Modi introducing GST and helping industry flourish," Goyal said.
Mukesh Ambani said Reliance through its telecom arm Reliance Jio has invested nearly Rs 5000 crore in the state in the last three years for developing the digital broadband network.
JSW group chairman Sajjan Jindal, whose company is putting up a Rs 800 crore cement plant at Salboni in West Midnapore district said, "West Bengal is the place to invest. Large power plant and other industries are being set up there. Please invest more and more in Bengal."
Essel Group arm, Essel Infraprojects Limited (EIL) committed an investment of Rs 4,000 crore in the state, while leading corporates ITC and Airtel said they would make further investments in the state in addition to the ongoing ones.
ITC chairman Y C Deveshwar speaking at the summit said the company already has investments worth Rs 4500 crore in process.
"We will invest another Rs 3500 crore in the next three years." he said.
The summit was also attended among others by Union ministers Suresh Prabhu, Nitin Gadkari, UK Employment Minister Priti Patel, Bhutan Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay besides industrialists Mohan Das Pai, Subhas Chandra and delegates from abroad.