Jorhat (Assam) [India], October 20 (ANI): On the inter-state border dispute between Nagaland and Assam, Nagaland Higher Education Minister and state BJP president Temjen Imna Along said that the issue will be resolved in the best interests of the people of both the states.

Kolkata Apr 21 PTI The West Bengal government on Thursday announced setting up of sectoral committees to forge synergies between the authorities and industries in which business doyens will function as co-chairmenAmit Mitra the principal chief advisor to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said the committee for agriculture and allied products will be co-chaired by ITC Ltd chairman and managing director Sanjiv PuriTitagarh Wagons managing director Umesh Chowdhury will co-chair the MSME panel while Patton Groups Sanjay Budhia will take on the role for exports Ambuja Neotia Groups Harsh Neotia for services and Luxmi Teas Rudra Chatterjee for tourismThe announcement was made on the second and concluding day of the Bengal Global Business SummitPuri said agriculture is the lifeline of the states economyDuring the meet more than 95 MoUs have been signed involving an investment of Rs 3000 crore he said adding that the state needs to create more farmer producer organisations FPOs and make improvements in qualityChowdhury stated that the MSME sector needs the governments support for expansionSpeaking on exports Budhia said the state government has given priority to this sector and many companies are keen to set up their export base in India for geopolitical reasonsWest Bengal can benefit from that he saidNeotia stated that eight letters of intent involving an investment of Rs 1000 crore have been signed in the services sectorChatterjee mentioned that the tourism sector will see an investment of Rs 4900 crore over the next three years and the target is to increase the number of inbound traffic from 100 million to 300 per yearHe also said the MICE meetings incentives conferences and exhibitions infrastructure will attract business tourism in West BengalFinland governments Under-secretary of Petri Peltonen said his country will collaborate in the areas of school education inclusive digitalisation and sustainable energy solutionsWest Bengal Industrial Development Corporation managing director Vandana Yadav said MoUs were signed in coal mining irrigation and waterways and also for a Rs 1000-crore hospital at HowrahAgreements were signed with Microsoft for state-of-the-art school education Nabard for rural micro-enterprises textiles industrial parks and for an electric bus plant at Murshidabad which will attract an investment of Rs 2500-3000 croreChief Minister Mamata Banerjee also inaugurated Flipkarts warehouse at Haringhata which will create 20000 jobs over timeVikram Solar which has a plant at Falta SEZ announced an expansion of power generation capacity from 1200 MW to 2000 MW by 2023 and also the setting up of an RD facility at Bengal Silicon ValleyJubilant Foodworks which runs restaurants like Dominos Pizza will set up a modern food processing plant at Naihati in North 24 Parganas involving an investment of Rs 100 croreBanerjee said the state attracted an investment of Rs 342 lakh crore and will create 40 lakh jobsThe next BGBS will be held in 2023 between February 1 and 3 she added PTI DC BSM BDC BDC