Protest won146;t make us change plan: Salim Group

The ongoing controversy at Nandigram, where the Salim Group is scheduled to set up an SEZ, will not make the group deviate from any of the projects that it is planning in the State, said Prasun Mukherjee, the Singapore-based industrialist who has a tie-up with the Indonesian company, today.

In a meeting with Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Mukherjee discussed the group8217;s projects. Speaking to reporters later, he said: 8220;Today, I came here to meet the Chief Minister and to assure him that we have no plans to backtrack on any of our projects 8212; the two SEZs at Nandigram and Haldia, the roads and bridges, the housing project, the health city and the knowledge city. All these projects are very much on. We have left the land acquisition part to the State Goverment, and as soon we get it we will plunge into the projects in all earnest.8221; He added that on January 19, a Chinese delegation from the Salim-China group, the company that has set up an SEZ in China, will visit Kolkata to study the proposed SEZs of the Salim Group in East Midnapore district. The Salim Group is setting up one multi-purpose SEZ at Nandigram and a SEZ for chemical hub at Haldia.