ISO 9001-2000 Certified – a Rs. 16-crore project on a 10 acre site at Bengal Pailan Park, Joka (120,000 sq. ft. built-up area, with another 55,000 sq. ft. added in late 2004), offering a host of career-focused Bachelors’ and Post-graduate courses – including the coveted MBA through the IIM-benchmarked, nationwide CAT score-card enrolment criterion. The college is approved by All India Council for Technical Education (Ministry of HRD, Government of India)  - Local Examination Syndicate for Business English Certification courses. It is affiliated to West Bengal University of Technology. www.pcmt-india.com

ISO 9001-2000 Certified – a Rs. 9-crore project on a 5-acre site at Bengal Pailan Park, Joka, offering three Pre-sea residential courses for challenging careers on the high seas: 1-year diploma in Nautical Science leading to B.Sc in Nautical Science; Pre-sea G.P. Rating (duration 6 months); and Saloon Rating (duration 4 months). Approved by Directorate General of Shipping Government of India, the college enjoys the distinction of having produced more than 1500 professional seafarers for the Indian/International shipping fraternity between February 2002 and March 2005. www.tcmtindia.com

Spearheading the Pailan Group’s ‘offshore’ thrust, Trident Marine Services – an ISO 9001-2000 Certified body – is empanelled with the Shipping Corporation of India for supply of maritime manpower. In addition to this, TMS also offers specialized services like Ship Management and Chartering Ship Supplies, to name a few. Body-shopping for Manning (Crew/Officers) is also one of TMS’ core competencies. Under the high mast of Yogi Seaways, the Pailan Group operates its own sea-cargo vessels, MV Andaman Victory and MV Andaman Fortune. These two ships also serve as an offshore training campus for the students of Trident College of Marine Technology.

A Rs. 13-crore project on a 5-acre site (48,000 sq. ft. built-up area), at Bengal Pailan Park, Joka. Inaugurated by the Hon'ble Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mr. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, on 29 November 2003, PSIS addresses the new and expanding horizons of vocational opportunities. PSIS offers Bachelors courses in Business Administration, Computer Application, Hospitality Management, Media Science and Travel & Tourism Management under WBUT. www.psis.co.in

A Rs. 100-crore project on a 40-acre site (7-star, 1880-square-feet-per-child school environs with a 500-metre Water Sports Track) – an ambitious backward integration Primary-to-Middle-to-High School project offering three top-of-the line transnational curricula. The acclaimed GEMS Ltd. (UK) and Westfields Sports School (Sydney, Australia) are consulting partners to Pailan World School where Primary Day-boarding academic sessions were formally launched on 6th April 2005. Commencing academic session 2006, the school is slated to commission all its globally-benchmarked facilities together with the 100% residential Middle-High School section. The school is Eastern India’s first with the coveted Cambridge University International Examinations affiliation. www.pailanworldschool.com.

An educational institute engaged in training and preparing students for all aspects of aviation services, Pailan Aviation Institute strives to impart the required skills to the students, creating an unsurpassable service aptitude and enhancing the ability to think and act independently, along with an emphasis on developing personal poise. Everything at Pailan Aviation Institute is dealt with professionally so that the students are better equipped to enter aviation services with confidence.

Inaugurated in February 2005 by Mr. Satya Sadhan Chakraborty, the Hon’ble Minister for Higher Education, Government of West Bengal, PACE truly underscores the Pailan Group’s commitment to help Bengal regain its position of pre-eminence on the national administrative and banking services’ map of India. The academy prepares eligible aspirants for the rigors of both written and oral tests conducted by Recruitment Boards and other designated bodies engaged in screening incumbents for government services employment or for admission to higher-level, specialized academic courses.

Housing and Infrastructure Development are issues central to the state of West Bengal and, equally, to the Pailan Group where major resources and tie-ups have been expressly dedicated to the ‘building’ mission. The Group’s flagship Pailan Park Infrastructure Development Authority Ltd. is currently in a joint-sector initiative with West Bengal Transport Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd. to create Eastern India’s single largest integrated township – Bengal Pailan Park, the three phases of which envisage a staggering 16,00,000 square feet of built-up commercial, residential and community spaces. Another mega project underway finds Pailan Park Infrastructure Development Authority Ltd., in partnership with the Sports Department, Government of West Bengal, blazing a 32-crore-rupee trail at Bratachari Gram, Thakurpukur – by way of a joint sector sports complex and Eastern India’s first-of-its-kind automobile engineering college.

At the forefront of the entertainment/media industry in West Bengal, Apurba Productions is busy benchmarking new professionalized standards that have so far eluded what was once the hub of creative expression in India. In a span of two years (2003-2004), Apurba Productions did its industry and, indeed, the Pailan Group proud with two runaway box office successes on the silver screen. Currently it has a large portfolio of television serials, including Satabdir Janani Sarada Moni (Zee Bangla) and Punorutthan (Doordarshan). A major landmark for Apurba Productions is already in the making at Bengal Pailan Park – its very own studio, complete with state-of-the-art cine, digital video and audio facilities on a 5-acre site, the foundation stone for which was laid on 12th March 2005 by eminent film personality, Mr. Soumitra Chatterjee.

Leveraging the agricultural strengths of West Bengal with world-class process technology, Ascon Agro makes its first mechanized production foray at Dhaniakhali in the Hooghly District of West Bengal – setting up a 3600 MTPA Potato Flakes Plant (a 100% EOU) in technical and financial collaboration with AFT/PB Conceal of France (2AMIS Group). The Foundation Stone for the Dhaniakhali Plant was laid jointly by Monsieur Nicolas Forissier, the Hon’ble Minister for Agriculture, Food Processing, Fisheries & Rural Affairs, Government of France, and Mr. Sailen Sarkar, Hon’ble Minister for Food Processing & Horticulture, Government of West Bengal. Christened ‘Unit #1’, this project is a precursor to much more on Ascon Agro’s ambitious anvil.

The Pailan Group’s foray into the travel and tourism industry, this division of Apurba Productions offers a wide range of packages that are high on excitement and low on expenditure. For the budget tourist, there can be no other point of call than Pailan Travel House.