The government organized a bipartite meeting today at Town Hall with the owners of jute industries to look into the problems of the jute sector in the state. A Group of Ministers, including Finance and Industry Minister Dr Amit Mitra, Labour Minister Purnendu Bose, Education Minister Partha Chatterjee, Panchayat Minister Subrata Mukherjee, and representatives of several chambers of commerce, attended the meeting.
The state government has announced formation of three core committees for diversification of jute products, modernization and skill development. The State Finance Minister, said jute industrialists, who attended the meeting, expressed their satisfaction over the government`s proposal for revival of the jute industry.
The state government would send representatives to a meeting of the Union Food Ministry and more envoys from the state will be sent to several meetings of the Centre on jute-related issues especially with the demand of 100 per cent use of jute bags for packaging.
A tripartite meeting was held at the Assembly where it was decided that North Brook Jute Mill will be reopened on Wednesday and the Victoria Jute Mill will be reopened on Saturday.
Mr Purnendu Bose, state Labour minister, said efforts have been taken so that the family of the deceased CEO of North Brook Jute Mill, HK Maheswari, will get benefits as early as possible.
