Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Sunday said his government wants to develop Maharashtra to global standards as the state was the “most preferred destination of foreign investors”.
“Maharashtra has always been the most preferred destination of foreign investors because of its infrastructure, administration. Instead of getting caught into issues related to caste, religion and language, the government intends to concentrate on development,” Mr. Chavan said in his address to people on the 64th Independence Day.
Mr. Chavan said the State has an important share in country’s development post-independence. However, not content with just that, the State has prepared a vision document for its future development, he added.
“The Government has recently come out with a policy for investors to develop ports and jettys. The government expects an investment of Rs 22,000 crore upto 2015,” he said.
He also said industrialists and businessmen will be immensely benefited by the Mumbai-Delhi Industrial corridor.
Mr. Chavan said though Maharashtra was hit by economic recession, it succeeded in achieving growth rate of 8.06 per cent last year.
On Marathi, he said a separate department for the development and conservation of language has been set up in Mantralaya.
“We have also decided to install Unicode font on all computers in government offices,” he added.
