kolkata bengal finance and industries minister amit mitra has responded to the allegations made by governor jagdeep dhankhar about bengal global business summit bgbs citing figures in the letter he wrote earlier this week mitra argued that a good proportion of proposals had been implemented or were under implementation he added that from the president of india to the current british prime minister boris johnson then foreign minister many important personalities had been at the summit being held since 2015 mitra wrote that in 2017 then president pranab mukherjee had inaugurated the summit recognizing its magnitude and efficacy he added that then union finance minister arun jaitley surface transport minister nitin gadkari and coal minister piyush goyal too had taken part in the summityou will also be proud to know that the number of foreign delegates who participated in the summit doubled in 2019 to 35 compared to 2015 bgbs 2019 had 12 partner countries the minister wroteaccording to mitra the cumulative investment proposal received between 2015 and 2019 was rs 1232 lakh crore in the letter the minister said between 2015 and 2018 502 of investment proposals under bgbs were in implementation mode for bgbs 2019 already rs 71646 crore is under implementation the employment generation through these investments so far is 28 lakh he wrotemitra cited bengals macroeconomic indicators to describe bgbs impact he mentioned in the letter that the states gdp had climbed from rs 46 lakh crore to rs 125 lakh crore in the last nine years similarly the states tax collection grew from rs 21228 crore in 201011 to rs 65806 crore in 201920 the debt gdp ratio has been brought down from 406 in 201011 to 333 in 201920 and fiscal deficit has been brought down from 42 in 201011 to 26 in 201920 these very positive outcomes in the macroeconomic parameters of the state government demonstrate laudable performance of the state government in which bgbs has played a significant role mitra added citing the pm mitra wrote that speaking at niti aayog narendra modi had expressed happiness that states were now organizing investor summits the bgbs has received accolades nationally and internationally for its unique innovative approach in attracting investments from across our nation and from all corners of the world it was encouraging to find that the business delegation to the summit rose from 2000 delegates in 2015 to as many as 4500 delegates in 2019 mitra added