Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday said Maharashtra is planning to set up a large incubation centre for startups near the financial capital soon to give a boost to new-age enterprises. The state is also determined to make Mumbai as one of the fintech hubs in Asia, Thackeray said, speaking at the annual NTLF event of IT industry lobby Nasscom. 

Thackeray said in the last three years since launching the Nasscom 10,000 startups programme, which has a warehouse in nearby Navi Mumbai, over 50 new companies have benefitted and over 1,300 jobs have been created.