West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee meets Lakshmi Niwas Mittal in London

KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee met Lakshmi Niwas Mittal, chairman & CEO of ArcelorMittal the world's largest steel company in London on Tuesday.

The Bengal CM, who is currently visiting London along with top businessmen from the state, unveiled a commemorative blue plaque at Sister Nivedita's family home at Wimbledon on Sunday The Scottish-Irish social worker and follower of Swami Viekananda is best known for her charitable work Kolkata.

She also attended a Roundtable conference of FICCI-UKIBC on Monday. During her meeting with Mittal she is believed to have invited the billionaire industrialist to invest in Bengal.

ArcelorMittal has a Design and Engineering Centre in Kolkata inside the city electronics hub at Salt Lake- Sector V that provides design and consultancy services for steel firms.

Mittal who hails from Kolkata, where his father M L Mittal set up a steel business, completed his graduation from St Xavier's College (now an University) topping his stream in Commerce in 1969 before he left for Indonesia in 1976 to set up his first venture.

The star alumnus had came down to his home city to inaugurate The Lakshmi & Usha Mittal Foundation Building, a brand new academic block as St Xavier's University on July 7, 2017 which inaugurated its new campus at New Town Rajarhat recently.