IT Companies are running away from West Bengal

We have been reading articles on the internet and hearing news in all Indian channels that West Bengal is beginning to become a nightmare for investments due to the challenges being put forth by certain political parties.

The first in the line of fire was Mr Ratan Tata and his dream car. Even before the steering was aligned, the wheels has to be taken off as Mamta Banerjee has her way.

It is a pity that the India of tomorrow still does not realize that petty internal intra country political mileage gains lead to nowhere when it comes to growth of the nation. Had this been China? - the folk there would have been happier to make things happen for Mr Tata and also look at placing a tag line on the dream car "made in China/by Chinese".

I am from the IT fraternity and as i was reading through other articles, i realized i should probably put my views in here. Thanks to the lessons learnt by Mr Tata, others seem to have found the right ways. No one really wants to risk being in Bengal and get a double stab in this economy while they are already competiting global market situation.

I was reading this article from times of india on Satyam Pulling Off from Calcutta. I think every IT CEO and CIO have seen the promises made by the state fail at this stage and given that they have not made any investments yet, each one of them is happy to say

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