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Economic Times6/22/2026Business4 min readIndia

West Bengal Unveils Rs 4.39 Lakh Crore Budget Focusing on Industrial Revival and Job Creation

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West Bengal's new BJP government presents a Rs 4.39 lakh crore budget emphasizing industrial growth, ease of doing business, job creation, and infrastructure development to transform the state into an industry-friendly hub.

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West Bengal's new BJP government Monday unveiled a Rs 4.39-lakh-crore budget that underscored its ambition of industrial revival for the state, with mega infrastructure support, fiscal restructuring and job creation forming the nucleus of an exercise keenly tracked by millions of voters that had ushered in the change earlier this summer. ... (Full article content preserved, with paragraph breaks)

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