Former Indian cricket team skipper Sourav Ganguly has announced plans to turn into industrialist as he is starting a steel factory in Salboni, West Bengal. The steel factory would be completed in five to six months, reported several media outlets via news agency PTI.
Ganguly was part of a delegation accompanying West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on her trip to Spain and Dubai.
Ganguly said that he started a small steel plant in 2007, and in five to six months will start building our new steel plant in Medinipore.
The former Indian cricket team captain informed that in another year's time, he would be able to complete the state-of-the-art facility.
"We have just started building our third steel plant in the state of west bengal… A lot of us believe that I only played the sport, but we started a small steel plant in 2007…" said Ganguly while addressing the 'Bengal Global Business Summit (BGBS)' in Madrid.
Saurav Ganguly had invested in few Indian startups as well including Flickstree, ClassPlus and most recently acquired a minority stake in food delivery platform JustMyRoots.
According to Registrar of Companies, Saurav Ganguly also owns few private limited companies such as Sourav Ganguly Enterprises Pvt Ltd, Nilachal Barter Pvt Ltd and Balaji Realspace Pvt Ltd.
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