kolkata

Kolkata is looking forward to a new wave of Poribartan after enthroning Mamata Banarjee as the first and only woman Chief Minister of West Bengal. Kolkata renowned as the City of Joy is one of the biggest metropolitan cities of the country that shelters the opulent and destitute class side-by-side on the banks of river Hooghly. The city acquires a huge population of skilled and semi-skilled workers engaged in manual labor in jute industries and tea-estates. Jute, textile, leather, electronics and pharmaceuticals have been the conventional industries in Kolkata. It stands as the leading jute producer of the country creating most of the employment in this sector. However Information Technology boom in the city like other cities of India over the past two decades has brought a revolutionary change in the city. Kolkata is now burgeoning in the real estate business, financial services and travel & tourism. There are varied job opportunities available in these sectors in Kolkata. As recently, the Tourism Minister of Kolkata has announced to develop Kolkata as a world class tourist destination through several projects like Night Safaris in the Sunderban forests, water adventure sports and most important of all is the Ganga(Hooghly) Beautification Project and development of cruise service. It has also been proposed to develop eco-tourism parks in the periphery of Kolkata. A latest report even says that hospitality industry in Kolkata is actually facing manpower shortage. This shortage and endeavor of the Government to take an effective step in this matter has therefore, opened up new avenues of jobs in Kolkata in the hospitality sector. Sea food exports of West Bengal to China have been growing mainly for cuttle and ribbon fish. Kolkata Port Trust is also now ready to build the Diamond Harbour Container Terminal under the regime East Coast Ports-Vision 2020 and hence going to generate jobs in this sector. Kolkata serves as a headquarter to many big corporate house like Birla Group, Tata Tea, ITC Limited, Coal India Limited, UCO Bank and so on. Nevertheless city has a good transportation network of trams, metro, railways, taxis and rickshaws. But it lags behind other metropolitans in infrastructural facilities other than this. Kolkata needs huge amount of investment in both social and economic infrastructure to attract more industries in the city in order to create flourishing job market for the skilled workers here. Students from IIM-Kolkata have already made it directly to some of the big posts of the well-known corporate houses. People at Kolkata are fond of various forms of art and even interested in pursuing a career in it since the times of Rabindranath Tagore and Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. Kolkata has been the home for many literates and scholars. Although infrastructural development in Kolkata has begun by Government through various projects in different sectors which also promises a healthy recruitment process in the coming years. But Kolkata faces a problem of providing job opportunities matching to one’s career aspect. Hopefully this malaise will soon be cured with the transformation in the economy of Kolkata.