KOLLAM: Kerala Congress (B) chairman R Balakrishna Pillai has called upon the State Government to follow the West Bengal model in allotting Special Economic Zones in the state. Speaking at a news conference here on Friday, he said the LDF Government could follow the criteria adopted by their West Bengal counterparts in allotting the SEZs. Instead of allotting thousand acre, the state should allot small holdings up to 50 or 100 acres for setting up SEZs, he said. He said during the last two years the state had lost investments worth Rs 25,000 crore owing to internal squabbles in the CPM and the LDF. It was the duty of the State Government to ensure job opportunities to the youth, he said.