Kolkata: An all party meeting today draws close to agreement on establishing the proposed chemical hub at Nayachar in East Midnapore district with sufficient safeguards against environment pollution. The members of Trinamool Congress didn’t attend the meet.

Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Industry Minister Nirupam Sen attended the meeting, which agreed to give nod to the execution of the project in the river island located near Nandigram and Haldia.

Industry Minister said, “The Congress agreed that the project, to be set up on the basis of a decision of the Centre, is necessary for the interest of the state. The Congress and all other parties present at today's meeting also agreed that Nayachar, which is largely without human habitation, could be site for it.”

Mr. Sen described meeting with the ‘positive’ result, and said the Congress would talk about the issue inside the party and shortly gets back to the Government with the final decision.

The Congress, the CPI(M), all the Left Front partners, the Gorkha National Liberation Front(GNLF) and Jharkhand Party (N)the attended the meeting.

Trinamool Congress opposed the chemical hub’s concept on the basis of environmental pollution and had declared its decision to boycott the meeting.

Another Opposition party, the SUCI, also remained out of it.

Mr. Sen said the all-party meeting concluded that an advisory committee, comprising environment experts, be set up to evaluate the possible effects of the proposed hub that would require about 10,000 acre of land.

The state government had decided that the project would be an extension of Haldia petrochemical zone.