On Friday, 5th March 2020, The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in association with HIDCO, organized the "Inauguration of Bee Corridor" at Eco Park. Bee Corridor is a unique project implemented by Schoppen Solutions, an Incubatee of Webel-BCC&I Tech Incubation Centre. It is an initiative involving emerging technologies like IoT, Artificial Intelligence to monitor the behavior of the bees which will facilitate colonization. The project has been awarded to them by HIDCO which manages Eco Park.

The inauguration was graced by Shri Debashis Sen, IAS (Rtd), Chairman & Managing Director, HIDCO and Additional Chief Secretary, Government of West Bengal, as the Chief Guest.

Mr. Arnab Basu, Chairperson - IT Committee and Managing Partner, East and Technology Consulting Leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers Pvt. Ltd. formally welcomed the invitees. Shri Debashis Sen shared his vision for project. The uniqueness lies in the fact that it is a bee cultivation in an urban set up and this will lead to livelihood of people around the place in the process of sale of honey collected from there. Mr. Kalyan Kar, Co-Founder & Managing Director, Inqube Innoventures Pvt. Ltd. and Mentor, Webel-BCC&I Tech Incubation Centre was also present who shared his perspective and guidance. Mr. Arijit Das, Founder, Schoppen Solutions and Incubatee of Webel-BCC&I Tech Incubation Centre spoke about the unique initiative and also demonstrated how this "smart" honeybee boxes work and will help the beekeepers. According to Mr. Das, bees will be saved from extinction, thereby restoring ecological balance and it will also generate revenue and increase income of thousands of people.

Mr. Prodip Mukhopadhyay, Managing Director, West Bengal Electronics Industry Development Corporation Limited was also present. Webel-BCC&I Tech Incubation Centre was set up by an MoU between Webel and The Bengal Chamber.

The programme was well attended by the mentors of Webel-BCC&I Tech Incubation Centre including Mr. R.N. Lahiri, Director, Batanagar Institute of Engineering, Management and Science (Batanagar Education and Research Trust), Mr. Debasis Basu, Former Vice President - Projects, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Mr. Sarbajit Das, Founder & CEO, Sun Dew Solutions Pvt. Ltd. and Mr. Debjit Chakraborty, Global Head - CLOUD ERP and Oracle Practice, Tech Mahindra. Members of the Advisory Committee of Webel-BCC&I Tech Incubation Centre were also present at the programme including Mr. Chiranjib Bhattacharya, Chief Executive Officer, Wizertech Informatics Pvt. Ltd. and Co-Chairperson - IT Committee, The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Mr. Swarup Roy, Advisor, IT Promotion Cell, Information Technology & Electronics Department, Government of West Bengal, Mr. Manjit Nayak, Additional Director, Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) and Mr. Subhodip Ghosh, Director General, The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Invitees included Dr. Michael Feiner, Consul General of Germany in Kolkata; Mohammed Shamsul Arif, First Secretary (Commercial), Bangladesh Deputy High Commission in Kolkata; Mr. Steven Liu, Director, Taipei World Trade Centre; Mr. Arup Mitra, Commercial Specialist, U.S. Consulate General in Kolkata and other senior Members of The Chamber and Officials of HIDCO. The programme also included Press Interaction and it was well covered.