Once a powerhouse, the state now faces debt, deindustrialisation and a steady flight of capital and labour For a state that once stood as one of India’s foremost economic engines, West Bengal, for the better part since Independence, has been caught in a prolonged cycle of stagnation, fiscal stress and outward migration. The promise of political change has come and gone across regimes, from the Communist Party of India (Marxist) to the All India Trinamool Congress, but the und