The minister said if the railways handed over the land to the Cottage and Small-scale Industry Department, it would help to create huge employment in the state.

Earlier this week, Banerjee had said at an event in Singur in Hooghly district that the railways had already identified 113,000 acres across the nation that can be used for developing industrial infrastructure.

She said six bighas of railway land in Singur would be used for setting up an industrial cluster under the Kisan Vision project, which will help local farmers sell their products from outlets on this land.

She said that the initiative would also create employment in Singur.