The West Bengal government is planning
to drop its plans of developing a project comprising a township and an
industrial hub in Dankuni and replacing it with the DLF project. The reason for
dropping the project is because the state government was facing a problem in
purchasing land at Dankuni in Hooghly district
The government had planned to build
the township on a PPP basis with Delhi based DLF, on 4,800 acre, with an
investment of Rs.33,000 crore. In February 2007, the Kolkata Metropolitan
Development Authority signed an agreement with DLF for building the project -
Dankuni World Project - comprising a township and an industrial hub.
DLF has already paid Rs.270 crore to the government for the project.
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Dankuni Township
project put on hold (04-Jun-08)