The seventh edition of the Global Fintech Fest opened in Mumbai on Tuesday, inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and runs through September 11, 2026.
For founders and fintech operators, GFF’s scale is the pitch: it draws financial technology companies, banks, regulators and policymakers into one venue for four days, making it one of the year’s higher-density opportunities for partnership and regulatory conversations in a single trip.
The Prime Minister arrived in Mumbai after a full day in Vadodara, where he dedicated Rs 35,000 crore worth of infrastructure, including three Western Dedicated Freight Corridor sections spanning 326 route kilometres.
That freight corridor detail matters beyond logistics circles: dedicated freight rail lowers the cost and time of moving goods, which is a structural input cost that touches e-commerce, manufacturing and any startup with a physical supply chain.
The same day’s foundation stone for a 110 MW floating solar project at Kadana Dam is a smaller but telling data point on where public infrastructure spending is heading — renewable generation increasingly bundled into regional development packages rather than treated as a standalone energy-sector announcement.
The Vadodara Municipal Corporation’s new office building was among the infrastructure projects for which the foundation stone was laid during the Prime Minister’s visit.
India’s dedicated freight corridor network, once complete, is intended to shift a larger share of freight traffic off congested passenger rail lines and onto purpose-built goods corridors.
The Prime Minister’s Office said the combined projects inaugurated and foundation-laid during the Gujarat leg of the visit were valued at more than Rs 35,000 crore.
The Western Dedicated Freight Corridor is a dedicated rail line built to move freight trains separately from passenger traffic, cutting transit times and easing congestion on India’s busiest goods routes.
The three newly dedicated WDFC sections run from New Sanand to New Makarpura, New Umbergaon to New Saphale, and New Saphale to New JNPT, together covering 326 route kilometres.
PM Narendra Modi dedicating development projects in Vadodara, Gujarat, PIB/Wikimedia Commons, GODL-India