Maharashtra NCP president and former state finance minister Jayant Patil Tuesday said the Finance Commission should give special grant to the Greater Mumbai Region.
He also suggested that the Commission should have separate fund for meeting agrarian distress, which is not always drought related but could be in the form of excess production as well.
Speaking at the meeting with the 15th Finance Commission here, Patil said, "Mumbai's position as commercial capital since Independence is being diluted due to the Centre's concentration on a new city in the neighbouring state."