"There are a lot of misconceptions which are not based on the assessment of the ground situation," Chavan said, when asked about Pawar's statement.
Pawar had expressed concern about Congress-NCP coalition government's failure to stop industrialists from going out of Maharashtra to set up new industries or plants.
The Chief Minister was speaking on the sidelines of a function for signing of an MoU between the US firm General Electric (GE) and the state government for the company's USD-2,000 million manufacturing plant at Chakan near here. He told reporters that "by all reckonings" Maharashtra continued to be a leading industrial destination in the country.
Emphasising that all the investments could not be expected to come to Maharashtra as other states too were competing to attract the industries, Chavan noted that Maharashtra still accounted for 35 per cent of the FDI flow to India last year.
"GE could have gone to Bangalore or other states, but after all the thought, they came to Maharashtra," Chavan said.
He, however, conceded that Maharashtra needed to speed up development of minor ports, which was slow as compared to the neighbouring states.