West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari feeds a cow during the foundation stone-laying ceremony of Lux Cozy plant at Dankuni, in Hooghly district
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West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari laid the foundation stone for a ₹600-crore Lux Cozi garment hub in West Bengal’s Dankuni on Saturday (July 11). The company officials said that once built, the plant will be one of the largest garment manufacturing hubs in Asia.
The CM conducted the stone laying ceremony and said that West Bengal will soon get foreign investments and industries to help the State grow and retain its young talent. “You will get the benefit of ‘double-engine’ sarkar… We must end the extortion and syndicate racquet in Bengal. We have managed to largely get out of this culture in the past two months,” Mr Adhikari said.
Mr Adhikari added that they will create a business and industry-friendly area in Bengal by putting law and order in place and ending the extortion culture.
Ministers Tapas Roy, Arjun Singh, Dr Sharadwat Mukherjee, and Bharatiya Janta Party State president Samik Bhattacharya were also present at the event.
“All industrialists in Bengal have a habit of coming to the party office first and then going to Nabanna (State Secretariat) to talk about business and expansion. This is wrong. This is because, for the last 50 years in Bengal, political parties have ruled the State; it has always been the Left government or the Trinamool government, but we want that culture to change so it becomes the West Bengal government,” Mr Bhattacharya said.
Mr Bhattacharya further added that West Bengal has all the right resources to become an industrial hub in the coming days. He said that before their government came to power they could not stop the “flight of industries” from the State, but now they are creating a favourable environment for industrial growth. He also urged industrialists to find their way back to West Bengal.
“The Dankuni facility will not only strengthen our production capabilities but will also create meaningful employment, accelerate regional industrial development and contribute to India’s emergence as a global textile and apparel manufacturing powerhouse,” Ashok Todi, Chairman, Lux Industries Limited, said during the event.
The expansion adds an annual capacity of an additional 20 crore pieces to the existing facility’s 12 crore pieces, boosting the Lux Cozi Group’s total nationwide capacity from nearly 20 crore to approximately 36 crore pieces annually, an official statement from the company said.
The project is likely to generate 3,000 direct and 6,000 indirect employment opportunities. This automated facility will consolidate manufacturing, eliminate regional processing bottlenecks, and reduce wastage.
Published – July 12, 2026 03:30 am IST
