The West Bengal Assembly is likely to have a brief special session next week to pass the West Bengal Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation) (Amendment) Bill, 2014, to make way for private domestic players in rural marketing hubs.
"We will allow only domestic capital in retail market under strict regulation. The state government, however, will not allow FDI in retail," state's Agricultural Marketing Minister Arup Roy told PTI.
Roy said the Bill, which was referred for scrutiny to the Select Committee in the previous session, was today cleared by the Select Committee with three amendments moved by the Government Chief Whip Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay.
He said, however, all 18 amendments moved by the Opposition in the House were rejected.
Speaker Biman Banerjee told PTI that the Business Advisory Committee would finalise the brief session of the House in a meeting tomorrow.
Political analysts believed that ahead of the upcoming industrial summit early next month here, passage of the Bill moved by the Mamata Banerjee government would draw attention of the prospective investors.
