Nagpur stakes claim to lead boomtown pack

Nagpur: Once relegated to second-grade status after ceasing to be the capital of the erstwhile CP and Berar Province, Nagpur is on the upswing.
The city is now fast shaping up into a hurricane of development. At the centre of it all is a Rs 3,000-crore Multimodal International Hub Airport at Nagpur (MIHAN) that will feed a Rs 10,000-crore Special Economic Zone. IT leaders like Satyam, L&T Infocity and Shapoorji Pallonji have already bought over 250 acres in MIHAN’s proposed SEZ.
About 1,500 of the required 3,500 hectares have already been acquired for MIHAN. An international school is coming up soon, an ultramodern airport with a capacity to handle 10,000 people has been envisaged and a 100-MW captive power plant is set to come up.
The first international flight started here last year when Air Arabia launched its Nagpur-Sharjah flight.Last week, the Indian Airlines started its own international flight from here to Bangkok.
But the real booster came recently when Boeing chose it for its proposed about Rs 500-crore Maintenance, Repairs and Overhaul (MRO) facility.
04/05/06 Vivek Deshpande/Indian Express

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