Larsen & Toubro plans to invest more than Rs 4,500 crore in West Bengal over the coming years, with chairman S N Subrahmanyan expected to meet Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari to discuss a series of investment proposals.
L&T is nearing completion of the first phase of its software park at Silicon Valley in New Town, with two more phases planned, taking total investment in the project to around Rs 2,500 crore and generating approximately 25,000 jobs.
The company is also planning a tier-III data centre in Kolkata and will apply for land for the project. The proposed 13 MW facility will involve an investment of around Rs 2,000 crore.
Dip Kishore Sen, adviser to the L&T chairman and managing director, said the company had executed several landmark projects in Bengal and was now looking to deepen its engagement with the state.
