Correct Answer : Option (D) - Maharashtra
Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology "Rajeev Chandrasekhar" announced that an Electronics Manufacturing Cluster is to be developed in the Ranjangaon area of Maharashtra.
* The Electronics Manufacturing Clusters will be developed for ₹500 crores. Electronics Manufacturing Clusters are expected to generate thousands of jobs in the coming years and will attract an investment of over ₹2,000 crores.
* Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar informed that the Electronics Manufacturing Clusters have been approved to make Maharashtra into an electronics hub.
* The government will invest upto ₹500 crore in this project.
* The Electronics Manufacturing Clusters project has joined Tamil Nadu, Noida, and Karnataka in making an aggressive pitch to emerge as a powerful electronic hub.
* The government to contribute ₹207.98 crores in the development of the Electronics Manufacturing Clusters in Ranjangaon.
* The overall cost of development of the EMC is likely to be ₹492.85.
* The
Central Government will contribute ₹207.98 crores and the rest will be contributed by the
Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC), the State Industrial Agency of the
Maharashtra Government..
Source : PIB