The industrialist later told reporters: 'I think she has a wrong conception. Maybe in one or two months, due to lesser production we could not deliver on time.'

He added that the Ruia Group's Dunlop India Ltd, which could not re-start work at Shahgunj in the absence of electricity connection after it re-opened March 6, would begin operations shortly.

Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) president Jagmohan Dalmiya also had a similar fate when Banerjee questioned him about the progress of the Calcutta Leather Complex in Bantala on the eastern fringes of the city.

The 1,100-acre Bantala plot was given to Dalmiya's company, ML Dalmiya & Co, on a 30-year build-operate-transfer (BOT) basis for Rs.16 crore (Rs160 million) in 1994.

She asked about the problems Dalmiya faced in implementing the project.

Dalmiya said: 'Electricity and water are not the problem. There are problems with regard to the effluent treatment plant. But if we get an extension, that can be taken care of.'