Being one of the main centers of the Indian economy, the coastal region of the state of Maharashtra is of utmost importance to policy makers in New Delhi, who have passed a brand new project for the region, to connect the 3 cities of Pune, Nashik and Mumbai to create a great metropolitan area, with the potential to account for up to 12% of the national GDP and 15% of the total industrial output, and one of the largest metropolitan areas by population in the world, the Punamum Metropolitan Area.

Mumbai मुंबई, Financial, Entertainment and Trade

Mumbai, Maharashtra is the entertainment, fashion and commercial centre of India. The most productive city, the fastest growing city, etc. Mumbai is the jewel on the crown that is India. The city is a blend of many styles, Gothic Revival, Indo-Saracenic, Art Deco, with many variety of European influences such as German gables, Dutch roofs, Swiss timbering, Romance arches, Tudor casements, and traditional Indian features. The newer suburbs are a forest of concrete, with over a thousand skyscrapers, more than anywhere else in India. A blend of old and new, Mumbai is the financial, commercial and entertainment hub of India. Despite this, alongside its remarkable growth lies its horrendous pollution and its relative crowdness. As such, through the Punamum Metropolitan Area the aim is to disperse the wealth and instead of a concentrated developed region in Mumbai, the focus is to lift the entire surrounding area into the 21st century and to form a developed city model for the rest of India. This includes:

• Modernise housings with all houses below moderate standards within’ Mumbai city proper to be knocked down and rebuilt or modernised, especially the residential housing built in a rush due to the urbanization of the city. Additional housing zones are to be created in Trombay, Mulunda East, Gorai and Uttan as special urban zones with commercial and residential housing priorities, first to house the additional people coming in to Mumbai as well as to house the displaced population within the city core who are moved to make way for the modernised commercial center.

• Urban renewal projects for the older neighbourhoods and slums such as Dharavi, Dhobi Ghat, Colaba and Kamathipura. People are to be compensated with new housing in the outer residential zones with the area being renewed for commercial purposes.

• Experiment with Urban Farming and the archology technology through in-urban agriculture in greenhouses or on top of skyscrapers and office buildings to provide extra greenary.

• Land reclamation projects in Thane Creek to create up to 3 new districts in downtown Mumbai.

• Restrictions on motorbike and rickshaw traffic at certain hours as well as a straight ban of single or two seated vehicles at certain areas within the city.

• Expansion of the bus system within city limits with hopes of total passengers travelled daily being up to 10 million by 2025. This is in conjunction with the completion of the Mumbai Metro, the Mumbai Monorail and the Suburban Railway network hoping to reduces pollution through a cutdown on motorbikes and rickshaws.

• Loosening of industrial quotas to allow for more automotive factories to spur up in the suburban regions as a large portion of the population sustain themselves in blue collar work such as mechanics, a necessity given the amount of individual vehicles of motorbikes and rickshaws. However with the cutback on these vehicles the livelihood of entire communities are affected, whose skills are better put to use in automotive factories rather than on sidewalk mechanic shops.

• Increasing public utility (plumbing, electricity, sewage and trash collecting) to keep up with rising demands.

• Increased municipal investments in small business financing and construction.

Pune पुणे, Education, Manufacturing and Technology

The city of Pune is a sprawling metropolis, the second largest in the state after the city of Mumbai. With a population of nearly 8 million, it is almost a second pivot in the metropolitan area rather than one of Mumbai’s satellite. Considered the cultural capital of Maharashtra, It is also known as the "Oxford of the East" due to the presence of several well-known educational institutions. The city has emerged as a major educational hub in recent decades, with nearly half of the total international students in the country studying in Pune. Research institutes of information technology, education, management and training attract students and professionals from India and overseas. Several colleges in Pune have student-exchange programmes with colleges in Europe. All of these lead to Pune to be a center of education, high end manufacturing and technology within the Punamum Metropolis.

• Increasing connection to the Mumbai metro through an expansion to National Highway 48, segment Thane - Pune. This stretch of highway is to be expanded as a six lane following American Interstate Highway safety and controlled standards.

• Construction of 4 recycling complexes to replace the lost “self-recycling” workforce in Mumbai.

• Creation of an Industrial Zone in Viman Nagar for expansion of Bajaj Auto, Tata Motors, Mahindra & Mahindra, Mercedes Benz, Force Motors, Kinetic Motors, Jaguar, Renault, Volkswagen, and Fiat presence in Pune with government subsidies for national domestic automotive manufactories. The aim is to employ up to 1.2 million people in manufacturing by 2025.

• Expansion of the The Rajiv Gandhi Infotech Park area in Hinjawadi to 25km2 with granted extra government benefits and consolidate the IT presence from Magarpatta and Kharadi into this area.

• Establishment of the Gulzarilal Nanda High Tech Park in Hadapsar, sponsored by the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation to be an area of development for new technologies, providing up to 50,000 local jobs in the area.

• Creation of a cost of housing trigger plan to make housing affordable, allowing workers to move in without inflated extra costs, and slowly increasing alongside the local incomes

• Mandatory Third Language Education for Pune students in tertiary education

• An annual $800 million research grant from the MoD to be distributed to Pune’s research institutes

• Creation of a 4-lines Metro system which runs from Khadki-Bibwewadi, Kothrud-Gopalpatti, Lullanagar-Shivajinagar, Hingne Khurd-Viman Nagar and a ring of monorail alongside VR Shinde Road.

Navi Mumbai नवी मुंबई, Transport and Medical

Navi Mumbai is a planned city off the west coast of the Indian state of Maharashtra in Konkan division. The city is divided into two parts, North Navi Mumbai and South Navi Mumbai, for the individual development of Panvel Mega City, which includes the area from Kharghar to Uran. With a population of over 1 million it is one of the largest planned cities ever constructed. In the late 1960s, Adi Kanga, a civil engineer, and some of this friends lamented that their city, the bustling Bombay (now Mumbai), was overpopulated. As the commercial capital of India, it was attracting large numbers of citizens, which the available infrastructure could not cope with. So the friends came up with the concept of building a new city, New Bombay, on the mainland, across from the seven islands of the old city. With a robust transport infrastructure and strategic location on the coast with the nation’s largest harbour in Jawarhalal Nahru Port, within the Punamum Metropolitan Area Navi Mumbai is to be a hub of commerce and transport as well as the medical center of the region, utilising its transportation for its use in medical tourism, an industry worth tens of billions annually in India by 2025.

• Construction of 14 more piers and supporting cranes, rail and other infrastructure for the port of Jawarhalal Nahru.

• Suburban railways network and monorails are to be linked with Mumbai’s network, in addition to 4 additional monorail lines past Ghansoli, Seawoods and Kharghar.

• A new six line metro system, the first line of the metro system is being constructed by CIDCO. This line includes three phases. In the first phase, the line will join the CBD Belapur station on the Mumbai suburban railway and Pendhar village. In the second phase, the line will join Taloja MIDC and Khandeshwar node (which will be extended to the Navi Mumbai International Airport Panvel. And in the third phase, the line will link the Pendhar and Taloja MIDC metro stations.

• Overhaul of NH106 on the stretch to Ahmedabad and NH360 to Nagpur as well as NH160 to Nashik to be 4 lanes all paved highways.

• Creation of the Mahape Medical Education District and the Shilphata Medical Service Zone

• Construction of 14 new Multispecialtiy and 4 Superspeciality hospitals within the new Medical districts to be subsidised by the local government. Mandatory waiting periods are banned and patients backlog are instead resolved by the newly built hospitals.

• Removal of gaps between issuing of visa on tourists as well as a 60 days visa-on-arrival scheme for tourists arriving for medical reasons applied specially only in city limits.

• Creation of a government sponsored hospital translation service to facilitate medical tourism.

• Go ahead for the expansion to the construction of the Navi Mumbai International Airport up to a 90 million annual passengers capacity with 6 runways, to be the hub of air travel for Punamum.

Nashik नासिक, Cultural and Tourism

Nashik is an ancient holy city in the northern region of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Situated on the banks of river Godavari, Nasik is well known for being one of Hindu pilgrimage sites, that of Kumbh Mela which is held every 12 years. With a population of one and a half million it is the 4th largest city in the state. As per Ramayana, Nashik is the location on the banks of Godavari river where Laxman, by the wish of Lord Rama, cut the nose of Shurpanakha and thus this city was named as "Nashik". More than just holiness to the city, the Igatpuri-Nashik-Sinnar investment region is an important node in the US$90 billion Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Project. Nashik is also a major defence and manufacturing hub with HAL’s assembly line in Ozar. Nashik has been described as "The Wine Capital of India" the Nashik region reportedly produced 10,000 tonnes of grapes per year. With facilitated greater travel to the nearby major cities, therefore increasing connectiveness of the city to the larger world, this opens Nashik up to be a major cultural and tourism hub for the region.

• Implementation of the Navi Mumbai public transportation scheme at Nashik

• Construction of additional housing and hotels in Deolali, to facilitate tourism as well as Hindu pilgrimages.

Virar विरार , Military Center

Virar is a city on the coast a part of Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation in Palghar district of Maharashtra state in Konkan division. Lying at the mouth of the Vaitarna River, on the Arabian Sea, Virar is in an excellent position to project naval and air power into the Middle East. With Mumbai’s ports already crowded, Virar is to be the hub of military activities in the region, revitalising the 1.2 million large city. While large, Virar is relatively unknown and strategically unimportant, allowing it to be the excellent locations to be a hub for military activities.

• Establish a large research center in the hills of Tungareshwar.

• Construction of a Naval ammunition depot and naval missile depot on Jhow Island.

• MARCOS Base and the Missile Boat Squadron base to be constructed on Wadhiv island.

• Early warning radar arrays and OTH radars to be set up on the hills of Sakawar.

• Construction of a Naval Hospital and a Coastal Missile Defence Battery of Brahmos missiles in Tembhi and Vedhi.

• A 16 pier full fledge naval base to be constructed in Arnala.

The total project will cost $80 billion over 8 years