Power: –
As on March 2022, West Bengal had a total installed power generation capacity of 10,700.29 MW, of which 6,017.95 MW was under state utilities, 2,902 MW under private sector and 1,780.34 MW under central utilities.
Roads:
As of 2011, West Bengal has a total road length of 92,023 Km with road density of 1.04 km per square km. Of this, national highways constitute 2,578 Km and state highways 2,393 km.
As per Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Government of India, in 2018, the total length of NH in West Bengal has reached 3565 Km.
Communications:
Telecom:
As on April 2016, as per statistics published in press release of TRAI, there were 74.58 million wireless (mobile phone) subscriptions (including 25.04 million with 90.43% VLR or active connections in Kolkata service area and 49.54 million with 93.68% VLR or active connections in rest of West Bengal service area) compared to over 1034.25 million wireless connections in the whole country with VLR or active connections of 90.31% and 1.275 million wire-line subscriptions in West Bengal.
VSNL has its international gateway and earth station in and around Kolkata. Mobile cellular services and e-mail services are available from a host of operators. International connectivity is provided through VSNL and five STPI earth stations, viz. Kolkata, Durgapur, Kharagpur, Haldia and Siliguri.
DoT/GoI has selected Digha in East Midnapore district as the cable landing station for the submarine cable laying project connecting India and South East Asia.
Ports
Airports:
There is an international airport at Kolkata and a domestic airport at Bagdogra, Siliguri. India's first aerotropolis is slated to come up near Durgapur-Andal region.
Seaports:
There are two riverine ports at Kolkata and Haldia.
Industrial Parks
WBIDC has developed multi-product and sector-specific industrial parks with state-of-the-art infrastructure keeping in mind the GoWB roadmap for rapid industrial growth.
Some of the parks developed by WBIDC include Manikanchan SEZ, Shilpangan, Garment Park, Food Park, Plasto Steel Park, Polly Park, Vidyasagar Industrial Park, Raghunathpur Steel & Allied Industrial Park, Panagarh Industrial Park, Shalboni Industrial Park, Godapiasal Industrial Park, Salanpur Industrial Park and Rishi Bankim Industrial Park.
Major Industries
Iron & Steel, Heavy & Light Engineering Products, Leather and Leather Products, Chemicals & Petrochemicals and downstream, Textiles, Gems & Jewellery, Food Processing, Hospitality & Tourism, IT and IT Enabled Services, Automobile and Auto Components, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Papers, Tea, Jute Products, Electrical & Electronics, Infrastructure & Real Estate.
Source: www.wbidc.com