'Essar Oil has shown interest in setting up project in Bengal'

KOLKATA: Essar Oil has shown interest in setting up its third coal-bed methane (CBM) project in the Asansol-Ranigunj belt in West Bengal, state's Industry Minister Partha Chatterjee said today.

The company would invest Rs 5,200 crore for the project, Chatterjee told reporters here.

He asked company representatives who met him to furnish a proposal and submit it to the government.

Chatterjee said Saroj Poddar of Texmaco had also called on him during the day for a food processing unit at Sankrail in Howrah.

He said cement major ACC was ready with its plant in the state and it was expected to be inaugurated during the month.