Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh aggressively pitched for making Mumbai as an international financial centre at Davos. | |
| Pointing out that the state government had undertaken projects worth $8 billion to upgrade Mumbai's infrastructure, he said the government wanted to pump in $60 billion by 2020 to provide world-class infrastructure in the city. |
| |
| Deshmukh was speaking at the seminar on 'Making India an International Financial Centre' at the World Economic Forum. |
| |
| The state government has taken up the Mumbai makeover project, which aims at providing world-class infrastructure to the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) spread over 4,500 sq km. |
| |
| The project comprises laying of rail lines, metro rail, water transport, upgradation of the airport and also a new airport at Navi Mumbai, which would be ready in three years. Besides, several projects to improve the city's water supply and drainage system are being undertaken, he pointed out. |
| |
|
| |
