The State Government is giving priority on the quality and capacity development of Small Scale Industrial Units by implementing various schemes and is also taking initiatives for market development of product manufactured by them. The Government is setting up urban haats and rural haats in prominent district towns and in every sub-division respectively to promote trade, one haats has already been set-up at Durgapur and work is in progress in Siliguri, while others are coming up at Salt Lake, Shanti Niketan, and Kalna. Minister of Micro and Small Scale Enterprises, Textiles, Land and Land Reforms, Swapan Debnath said that the saying, export acts as an engine of economic growth is very much true in case of economic growth and development in India. West Bengal deserves a special mention in export of garments, handicraft, handloom, engineering goods, and leather products. Furthermore he said," We have 256 units in West Bengal exporting apparel products valued at about Rs.1000 crore annually annual export of handicraft from West Bengal is about Rs. 500 crore, while export of jute diversified products from the state is more than 100 crore per annum."
While speaking at Bengal National Chamber of Commerce and Industry BNCCI), the minister also asked the members to think about exporting rice barn, which has very high nutritional value and patali gur which was appreciated by all. He also said that when properly packaged they can fetch high prices in urban markets and also help the small farmers who produce it.
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