Maharashtra Government and Brookfield Corporation plan Asia’s largest Global Capacity Centre with over $1 billion investment.

Exam-focused facts from the 17 December 2025 current affairs briefing.

Key facts

Maharashtra Government and Brookfield Corporation will build a 2 million square feet Global Capacity Centre.
The facility will employ 15,000 people directly and 30,000 people indirectly, totalling 45,000 jobs.
A Memorandum of Understanding for the project will be signed soon.
Maharashtra Government is in talks with FedEx to establish GCCs in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai.
Maharashtra aims to set up 400 GCCs across the state over the next five years, with Pune as a key growth hub.
Initial GCC regulations will focus on tier-1 cities like Mumbai and Pune before expanding to tier-2 cities.