No option, will use farm land for industries: Buddha
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee affirmed on Wednesday that his government will go on using agricultural land for his state's industrialisation. Addressing the media at the 19th party congress of the CPI(M) here, Bhattacharjee said that West Bengal just did not have an option. "Sixty-three per cent of our land is agricultural land, 1 per cent is fallow land, 13 per cent is forest cover, and only 23 per cent is left for industrial purposes. So what do we do? We can't do with 23 per cent, we must move ahead,' he asserted.