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The Mumbai World Trade Centre at
Cuffe Parade Cuffe Parade is a historic and significant business district of the city of Mumbai, India. It is home to a collection of commercial and office high-rises. It is bordered to the north by Nariman Point which, along with Cuffe Parade, forms the gre ...
is a
skyscraper A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors. Modern sources currently define skyscrapers as being at least or in height, though there is no universally accepted definition. Skyscrapers are very tall high-ris ...
built in the year 1970. It is the first world trade center in India. It consists of two towers, the M. Visvesaraya Industrial Research and Development Centre (MVIRDC) and the IDBI. MVIRDC is also known as Centre 1. At 155.9 m, it was the tallest building in
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for nearly four decades, until the completion of
Planet Godrej Planet Godrej is a group of five residential skyscrapers located on a plot of at Mahalaxmi, Mumbai, India . The towers are tall and 51 floors high and have about 300 residential apartments. Only 5% of the total land was used to build the skysc ...
(181 m) in 2009. It was constructed by the
Shapoorji Pallonji Group Shapoorji Pallonji & Company Private Limited, trading as Shapoorji Pallonji Group, is an Indian conglomerate company, headquartered in Mumbai. It operates in construction, real estate, textiles, engineered goods, home appliances, shipping, pu ...
. In 1998, the Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) commenced air conditioned bus services connecting the World Trade Centre with the suburb of
Andheri Andheri ( n̪d̪ʱeɾiː is a locality in the western part of the city of Mumbai in India. Udayanagari, the name of a hill near the Mahakali caves, inspired the name Andheri. On the former islet of Versova, also known as Vasave, there was ano ...
. Further, Special 2 buses are also running between Mumbai CSMT and the World Trade Center.


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List of world trade centers A World Trade Center (also World Trade Centre or WTC) is a building or complex of buildings used for the promotion and expansion of trade and licensed to use the "World Trade Center" name by the World Trade Centers Association (WTCA). As of May 2 ...
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List of tallest buildings in Mumbai Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of India, has the highest number of skyscrapers and high-rise buildings in India. More than 200 skyscrapers and 4,000 high-rise buildings have already been constructed in the city of Mumbai. (A s ...
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List of tallest buildings in India This article list ranks the tallest buildings in India that stand at least tall, based on standard height measurement. This means that spires and other architectural details are included in the official height, but not Radio masts and t ...
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List of tallest buildings and structures in the Indian subcontinent This list of tallest buildings in the Indian subcontinent (South Asia) ranks skyscrapers and structures in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, based upon height. Tallest buildings This list ranks buildings in the ...
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List of tallest twin buildings and structures The term twin towers in architecture refers to two tall structures with nearly identical characteristics and similar height, usually constructed close to each other and part of a single complex. The charts below lists most twin and other multi-col ...
Buildings and structures in Mumbai
Mumbai Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- ...
Marketing in India Skyscraper office buildings in Mumbai Buildings and structures completed in 1970 1970 establishments in Maharashtra {{Mumbai-geo-stub