Interactive Meeting with Shri Devendra Fadnavis, Honble Chief Minister of Maharashtra on “Resurgent India – Maharashtra Leads the way held at IMC, Churchgate.
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‘Maharashtra will be drought-proof in five years’,
CM DevendraFadnavis
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Maharashtra’s huge infrastructure thrust including Trans Harbour Link, Coastal road, new Airport at
Navi Mumbai, multi-modal transport for Mumbai city set to transform lives
through jobs and incomes
Chief Minister of
Maharashtra, Hon’ble Shri DevendraFadnavis, asserted that the State is
witnessing a paradigm shift from drought-related relief and rehabilitation work
to one of investment in real assets for water conservation for long-term
benefits.
“We have created
water storage facilities for six lakh hectares in just one year”, the CM
pointed out adding that the State government is in talks with the World Bank on
agricultural projects that would transform the landscape.
He was speaking
at the meeting organized by Indian Merchants’ Chamber on ‘Resurgent India:
Maharashtra leads the way’, here today.
“We will make
Maharashtra drought proof in five years”, Mr. Fadnavis told the IMC members
adding that the State is indeed creating structures to conserve water through
various programs including watershed development, distributed water structures
and so on.
Talking about the
need to link farm with secondary and tertiary sectors, the CM said the State
has created a value chain for cotton that goes from farm to fashion.
Maharashtra is the country’s second largest cotton producer. “An Apparel Park
is being considered for ensuring further value addition”, he added.
On ease of doing
business, the CM pointed out that the ‘license raj’ was coming to an end with
the introduction of electronic platform. Infrastructure development has become
a thrust area for the State. Giving time line for various infrastructure projects,
the CM said, “All permissions for Trans Harbour Link have been received in the
last one year and work order will be issued before October 31”.
In the same vein,
Navi Mumbai airport, coastal road project, elevated corridors for Mumbai have
also received appropriate clearances. Contracts will be awarded and work will
start before the end of the year, according to him.
Port-led
development is another area the CM highlighted. A 800 km Nagpur-Mumbai
Communication Superhighway will help connect the State’s 20 districts with
ports like JNPT, he pointed out.
Earlier, welcoming
the Chief Minister, Mr. Dilip Piramal, IMC President remarked that under the
dynamic leadership of the CM, Maharashtra continues to make rapid strides in
the field of economic growth and social development. The state has facilitated
‘Ease of doing Business’ and the results are showing.
The State has
attracted large investment including overseas investments, the highest in the country.
Maharashtra remains a premier industrial state contributing to 15% of national
GDP. Most socio-economic indicators are robust. Labour reforms, infrastructure development
are all progressive steps which are likely to contribute to an even more
vibrant economy, Mr. Piramal added.
On behalf of IMC,
the CM felicitated and gave away citations to two Emerging Manufacturing Giants
of Maharashtra namely Varroc Group and Endurance Technologies, both of which
have carved a special niche in automotive components in the competitive
marketplace.
IMC is a century
old chamber of commerce for promotion of trade, industry and commerce. It has
2,700 direct members and over 220 trade associations as associates though which
the chamber reaches well over 220,000 business establishments in various fields
of business.
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