West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announces a slew of new policies

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday announced a slew of new policies including plans to double the state's exports, modernise its logistics and promote renewable energy manufacturing, while opening the Bengal Global Business Summit here.

Ms Banerjee also announced a policy to promote bio-fuels and a new sub-sea cable landing station at the sea resort of Digha to help improve internet connectivity in the eastern region.

The chief minister also said that



the state's economy was growing at 8.41 percent and would turn into USD 212 billion this fiscal.

She also told a star-studded gathering of business leaders from petro-chemicals to retail sectors tycoons like Mukesh Ambani, Energy baron Sanjeev Goenka and Wipro's Rishad Premji, that four new industrial corridors would be set up including Dankuni-Kalyani, Tajpur port-Raghunathpur, Dankuni-Jhargram and Durgapur to Cooch Behar in north Bengal.