IT project in Bengal gets scrapped

Go to any quiz competition in India and you will find that most of the winners are Bengalis. When I was a kid my mother used to coerce me into eating fish by saying that Bengalis are so intelligent and have a fine memory because they eat fish. During the British ruling era, Kolkata was an important city for East India company and many 'babus', scholars and barristers were Bengalis from Kolkata. Its ironic that a state that was known for its intellectual wealth was left behind when India marched towards liberalization in 1990's. Left behind in the industrialization era due to the communist rule, it also missed out the IT train.

Its extremely sad to know that due to the shady deals of real estate developers and politicians, the people of West Bengal will be deprived of the information technology township plan at Rajarhat in Greater Kolkata. The IT park could have led to generation of atleast one lakh IT jobs in Bengal. All this because the WB government wants to wash off its hands from any land acquired by Vedic realty, a real estate company, which has come in limelight because of its shady deals. Instead of dealing with the issue, the government has gone ahead and scrapped the project, in which Vedi realty was also a partner, fearing the unraveling of the scam may create a controversy. Why face the controversy when its so easy to dunk and run away?