Tata Steel to sign metcoke project deal

West Bengal government tomorrow for its forthcoming metcoke project, said Sabysachi Sen, principal secretary commerce and industries, government of West Bengal.

The signing would take place on the sidelines of the CII Partnership Summit 2005.

A formal announcement from Ratan Tata, chairman Tata Sons was expected tomorrow as Tata would be present at the summit's inaugural ceremony where the Prime Minister will do the honours.

Sen said that the partnership summit would help the West Bengal government deal with its image problem. B Muthuraman, chairman of CII eastern region, said that more than 1,200 delegates would participate at the summit.

Sen said the summit returns to Kolkata at a time when the state is seeing tremendous economic and industrial resurgence and is back on the investor's radar.

"The CII Summit and the assemblance of senior world and business leaders in the city will give a fillip to the business sentiment" he said.

The chief minister and his senior colleagues would be at the Summit through out the three days for bilateral meetings.

"The spin off for Bengal cannot be quantified but, it is certainly going to be a big-bang start to the new year for the state's business agenda" said Sen.

Some of the leading lights of India's corporate arena led by Ratan Tata would take part in the CII flagship event.

Tarun Gogoi, chief minister of Assam and Vasundhara Raje, chief minister of Rajasthan would also speak at the summit.