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The West Bengal government on Thursday blamed the central government for the state’s solar park power project not taking off. Several eminent personalities including CII Chairman (Eastern) Umesh Chowdhury, Chairman and Managing Director (West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company Limited) Rajesh Pandey, R.N.Sen Chairman (West Bengal Electricity Regulatory Authority) , Amitabh Mathur Director (BHEL) spoke at the conclave. I had discussed this with Central Power minister Piyush Goyal to ease out the norms for solar power project, but unfortunately we have got no response yet”, said Shovan Deb Chattopadhyay, state power minister at Confederation of Indian Industry’s (CII’s) Energy Conclave-2017 in Kolkata. “The Centre will fund only those solar parks with a minimum capacity of 500 MW. We can definitely reach the Centre’s target but not on one piece of land and hence we are missing out of their funds..