Giving details on a proposal sent to the state government seeking 11 sites for setting up alternative business centres aimed at decongesting Nariman Point and Bandra Kurla Complex, MMRDA officials said the proposed new commercial hub sites are at Kanjur Marg (62.11 lakh sq m), Anik in Kurla (2.55 lakh sq m), Newali in Ambernath (67.72 lakh sq m), Manpada in Kalyan, (4.24 lakh sq m), Divanman in Vasai (24. 62 sq m), Malwani (1,500 sq m), Shil Shirdhon in Thane (13.19 lakh sq m), Kalwa in Thane (1.45 lakh sq m), Ulhasnagar (20,000 sq m), Dive in Bhiwandi (5.23 lakh sq m) and Anjur in Bhiwandi (2.91 lakh sq mt).

Added together, this amounts to 1.84 crore square metres of land.

The MMRDA’s plan is to acquire these plots and build amenities to attract industry majors. “A proposal has been sent to the state government. If land is allotted to us, we would set up the business centres,” said Dilip Kawathkar, joint project director, public relations.

In the long term, the MMRDA hopes, this would help create a land bank with suitable infrastructure. This would also replenish the MMRDA’s main source of revenue — land leases — that is drying up, with 70 per cent of the Bandra Kurla Complex land already out of its hands.

“The land acquired by the MMRDA would also be used for raising money for the agency’s infrastructure projects in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region,” said an MMRDA officer.