Chairman of Tata Sons Ltd, Ratan Tata, is taking a keen interest in the overall development of West Bengal, Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee said here on Monday, reports PTI. Inaugurating Elliot Park, named after John Elliot, the police commissioner of the city in 1810, Bhattacharjee said that during his recent meeting with Tata in Mumbai, the Tata group patriarch had expressed his desire to set up a power-generating centre in the state.

He said Ratan Tata had also been urged to set up an automobile-manufacturing unit in the state, for which a team was likely to visit the metropolis. Earlier, Ratan Tata had expressed his desire to set up a cancer research centre in Kolkata, for which the state government would allot land in Rajarhat township. He said that to improve the traffic system, the government had already floated a global tender for setting up a high-speed mass rapid transport system in the metropolis.