Mr. Sumanta Chaudhuri, Chief Executive Officer of West Bengal Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation, while speaking on the subject stressed on the need of increasing collaboration in the development of industrial as well as social infrastructure in West Bengal. He gave lot of importance to the role of infrastructural initiatives in attracting various industrial initiatives in the state of West Bengal. According to him the maintenance of existing growth centres has become a major issue of late and the Corporation is keen to get private participation for development of the growth centres to go ahead with full steam. Mr. Chaudhuri further said that the development of industrial parks, which came up with 100 per cent government assistance, has now given way to the public-private partnership model. Along with industrial development, the corporation wishes to develop social infrastructure like hospitals, housing etc, and the model project being developed by WBIDC in collaboration with a private entity in 200 acres of land at Shantiniketan is one such model project. Citing the many problems in the state on the land acquisition front, Mr. Chaudhuri, said today two major infrastructure projects were on the anvil for the state as public-private partnership project ~ an auto SEZ and park in Jhargram, Midnapore (West) and an industrial hub in Fatapukur, Jalpaiguri.