
| NEWS NOTES Sonar Bangla hotel in Calcutta
Staff Reporter T he 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 ITCs first hotel enterprise in eastern India.ITC officials said that the thrust was on a ``rejuvenated Calcutta with a high growth rate in the industrial sector which had given rise to the definite rise of the corporate travelling to this part of the country. The hotel will have all the prerequisites of a top hotel and once converted into the 1000-room expanse, will be the first of its kind in the country. 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. |
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