Maharashtra minister Samant blames MVA for Tata-Airbus project moving to Gujarat

Maharashtra Industries Minister Uday Samant on Saturday said the previous Maha Vikas Agahdi government under Uddhav Thackeray did not take any decision on the TataAirbus military transport aircraft project the moving of which to neighbouring Gujarat had started a political slugfest in the stateAirbus and a consortium of Tata firms have chosen Vadodara in Gujarat as the site for the 22000 crore project leading to the opposition accusing the Eknath ShindeBharatiya Janata Party government of ensuring yet another big project had moved away from MaharashtraSamant said no meeting on the project was held with Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation the state governments nodal investment promotion agency while talks had taken place at the local level with MIHAN also called Multi Modal International Passenger and Cargo Hub Airport at NagpurNo discussion was held by the previous government with regards to Airbus I can say with responsibility there is no official mention at the government level with Airbus regarding the aircraft plant Samant reiterated at a press conference hereSpeaking on the Vedanta Foxconn semiconductor project which too moved to Gujarat Samant said Chief Minister Eknath Shinde had called the joint venture and asked them to execute a memorandum of understanding while the previous MVA government had done nothing on the issueAlso Read Maharashtra State will get bigticket investments soon says CM ShindeDeputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had met officials of the firm in Mumbai he addedAttacking the previous government under Uddhav Thackeray Samant said 74 MOUs were signed but none took off while approval for a proposal for a Rs 25638 paper plant in the state was given on October 20 by the Shinde dispensationHe further said the Shinde government was taking efforts to revive the bulk drugs park project proposed to be set up in Raigad by taking the local population in confidence while the previous MVA dispensation had done nothing to get the project to take offThe minister reiterated that a big project that will generate employment will be brought to state in the coming monthsHe also said the the state government was making efforts to revive a multibillion dollar refinery project in Barsu in Konkans Ratnagiri district in place of the Nanar plan that was called off due to protestsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever