Bengal's incentive-oriented green policies to ensure sustainable growth: Minister
Millennium Post Kolkata|Kolkata 08 January 2025
A day ahead of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's scheduled meeting on upcoming Bengal Global Business Summit (BGBS) 2025, the state's industry minister Shashi Panja on Tuesday highlighted that Bengal is taking giant steps in embracing sustainable and green development through its incentive-oriented policies announced in the last business summit.
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Speaking at the 18th Environment Partnership Summit, organised by Indian Chamber of Commerce, Shashi Panja highlighted that India's rank in 2024 Environmental Performance Index is not very encouraging. "We stood 176 out of 180 countries. We need to do better as a country. In 2020 during the Covid period when all states were being assessed, Bengal stood in the third position."

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