Mumbai: Singapore has partnered with the Maharashtra government to undertake massive urban infrastructure developments in the Pune Metropolitan Region. Singapore’s Minister-in-charge of Trade Relations S Iswaran and Maharashtra’s Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, chairing the inaugural Maharashtra-Singapore Joint Committee meeting on Wednesday in Mumbai, signed a framework agreement to facilitate Singapore investments into the state.
They agreed to jointly work on the masterplan and airport for Pune, which is Maharashtra’s fast-growing IT and manufacturing hub, said the Ministry of Trade and Industry in a statement on Wednesday. They also agreed to look at collaboration opportunities in Maharashtra’s aviation, urban infrastructure and port and logistics sectors. The ministers also witnessed the signing of an MoU between Enterprise Singapore and Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority (PMRDA) to collaborate on the planning and development of the Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR).
PMRDA also presented a Letter of Award to Singapore’s Surbana Jurong as its appointed master planner. The Maharashtra Airport Development Corporation (MADC) also presented a Letter of Award to Changi Airports International (CAI) for advisory services for the proposed new Pune Airport.