The Global Konkan Festival is organized every year to promote and spread the natural beauty, tourism places, industry, folk art, culture of Konkan. India is the centre of world economy and Mumbai is the centre of India's economy and Konkan .
BJP MLCs Niranjan Davkhare, Praveen Darekar and Prasad Lad had raised the issue of how several Scheduled Tribe students who had converted to Islam or Christianity were studying in ITIs after getting admission through reservation.