Kolkata, Sept. 12 -- After a prolonged wait of 3 years, the Centre has finally allotted the Deocha-Pachami coal field to West Bengal Power Development Corporation Ltd which will create more than one lakh jobs and solve the State's employment, coal and power woes for more than 100 years, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said.
Apart from addressing Bengal's coal requirements the second largest coal block of the world with an estimated reserve of about 2.1 billion tones would go a distance in taking good care of the entire country's coal and power needs, Banerjee said adding it would take at least five years for the infrastructure project to take off.
By the time extraction of coal begins the project would involve an invest...