his special planning body operates through a broad network of local offices and has created 289 industrial parks around the state on 2.25 lakh acres of land. MIDC has spent the last few years focusing on developing commercial partnerships with nearly all of the world’s main trading partners. The most important role of MIDC is to ensure the availability of encumbrance-free land to entrepreneurs and manufacturers - helping Maharashtra in taking the leap to become India’s most industrialised state, with the highest contribution to the country’s GDP. The key objectives of the MIDC are to
