Centurial transitition of Bengali society An indepth study by SANKER Sonar Bangla A new ITC hotel being builded in Calcutta Cold rolling mill at Dankuni A trendsetter

The chief minister of West Bengal Jyoti Basu on Saturday laid the foundation stone for ITC Sonar Bangla, the 250-room hotel planned by the biggest corporate in eastern India on the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass overlooking the Science City. The Rs 250-crore hotel, super deluxe and spread over 16 acres of land, will be further expanded to a capacity of 1,000 rooms once it is inaugurated in AD 2002. This is ITC’s first hotel enterprise in eastern India.

The tourism minister of the state Manabendra Mukherjee said that the state government had earmarked Rs 600 crores for tourism and another Rs 1200 crores were in the pipeline. All this showed that the corporate sector, which always meant business, was as keen on the industrial rejuvenation of the state and as sure of its possibility as the government which had already paved the way for more and more industry to filter into the state by giving massive concessions and incentives to capital inflow.