Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday said the report by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), which apparently showed that Maharashtra had surged ahead of Gujarat and Karnataka in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI), had silenced the Opposition.
In response, senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and Leader of the Opposition in the State Assembly Ajit Pawar said that big ticket projects exceeding ₹1.5 lakh crore had allegedly gone out of Maharashtra, while urging the ruling Eknath Shinde-Devendra Fadnavis Government to come out with its promised White Paper on industrial investments in the State.
The Maharashtra Government on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Hydro Power Corporation (NHPC) and Torrent Power to generate 13,050 MW power through a Hydro Pumped Storage Project (HPSP).