It’s advantage Vidarbha as the city’s ambitious Mihan project will be expanded towards Gumgaon near Samruddhi Expressway and Hingna.
Addressing a meeting of MPs, MLAs and industrialists from Vidarbha to seek suggestions for the proposed Advantage Vidarbha Summit by Association for Industrial Development, the city MP and Union minister Nitin Gadkari said Nagpur was poised to become the country’s cargo capital with Rs 2,400 crore sanctioned for the projects.
“Deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis has sanctioned one Rs 1,200 crore cargo project (near Butibori) and my ministry has sanctioned another one near Sindi dry port of an equivalent amount,” Gadkari said.
Currently, Mihan provides employment to 68,000 youths, but the minister said his target is to employ about one lakh youths before next year’s Lok Sabha elections.
“Abu Dhabi’s Lulu group promised me and Fadnavis of setting up an international convention centre at Mihan. I have also urged Wipro founder chairman Azim Premji to establish units in the project. Persistent Systems, which has over 25,000 workforce, is now setting up a unit at Mihan and provide 3,500 jobs. Even IT giants like HCL have employed 15,000 and Infosys may employ up to 25,000 in future. Aviation majors like Dassault are making parts for Airbus and Boeing aircraft. We are trying our best to draw more investment to Mihan.”
