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🏭NITI AAYOG BENGAL BLUEPRINT SUMMARY🏭
NITI Aayog, led by VC Dr Ashok Kumar Lahiri, himself a son of Bengal, is preparing a comprehensive long-term economic and industrial roadmap for West Bengal, ahead of the June 11 Governing Council meeting. Here is what the blueprint contains:
🔵 LEGACY INDUSTRIES — REVIVAL & MODERNISATION
1️⃣ 🌿 Jute - modernisation package for the Hooghly belt; technology upgradation and export facilitation
2️⃣ 🍵 Tea - value addition and global branding push for Darjeeling tea; North Bengal logistics integration
3️⃣ 👞 Leather - export facilitation and technology upgradation for Kolkata cluster
4️⃣ ⚙️ Foundry & Forging - Howrah's engineering ecosystem to be formally anchored as a national cluster
5️⃣ 🏭 SMIs - small and medium industries across Bengal to receive modernisation and credit support
🟡 GEOGRAPHIC PRIORITIES
6️⃣ 🏗️ Durgapur-Asansol Industrial Corridor - manufacturing and engineering hub
7️⃣ ⚗️ Haldia Petrochemical Sector - expansion and downstream integration
8️⃣ 🛢️ Ashoknagar Oil Field - energy sector development
9️⃣ 🏔️ North Bengal - tea, tourism-linked enterprises, food processing, and logistics
🟢 NEW SECTOR ECOSYSTEMS
1️⃣0️⃣ 🧵 Textile Parks
1️⃣1️⃣ ⚙️ Engineering Parks
1️⃣2️⃣ 🏭 MSME Clusters
1️⃣3️⃣ 📦 Logistics Parks
1️⃣4️⃣ 🍎 Food Processing Parks
1️⃣5️⃣ 💻 Electronics Manufacturing Clusters
🔴 AGRO & MARITIME ECONOMY
1️⃣6️⃣ 🌾 Agro-processing- rice, potato, mango, fisheries, poultry, horticulture
1️⃣7️⃣ 🐟 Deep-sea fishing infrastructure + fish processing + cold storage + export facilities
1️⃣8️⃣ 🚢 Coastal logistics and port-linked export facilitation
🟣 STRUCTURAL REFORMS
1️⃣9️⃣ 🏗️ Transparent land bank - unused public land, closed PSU sites, dormant industrial units converted to plug-and-play infrastructure
2️⃣0️⃣ 🏘️ One District One Product - sports goods & foundry in Howrah; cashew processing in Purba Medinipur; district-specific anchoring across Bengal
2️⃣1️⃣ 💳 Credit-deposit ratio improvement - Bengal's ratio remains below national average; blueprint addresses this structural gap
2️⃣2️⃣ 🔄 Entrepot to Production Hub - shift Bengal from a trading gateway to a full manufacturing and export economy
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