India, April 26 -- Praveen Pardeshi, the chief economic advisor to Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and the CEO of Maharashtra Institute for Transformation (MITRA) says the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) will see spurt in the growth, thanks to new projects such as the Vadhavan port, as the state's own efforts to make MMR a hub for data centre industry among others. In an interview with Shailesh Gaikwad and Surendra P Gangan, Pardeshi also threw light on key sectors, automobile and software development, that generate revenue and employment; and also the growth in artificial intelligence.

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