Vashi is one of the oldest and most populated nodes in Navi Mumbai. Many companies from Mumbai and other parts of India have set up shop there. Sector 17, in turn, is the commercial heart of Vashi, hosting a dense concentration of small businesses, offices, clinics, banks, retail outlets, restaurants and franchise operations. Sectors 9 and 10 are also heavy with commercial activity, especially retail.
A large APMC market, the biggest in Navi Mumbai for wholesale agricultural produce, is located in Sector 19 and part of Sector 18.
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Vashi station complex is built to ISO 9002 quality standards and has set a new benchmark for 21st century railway stations.
The International InfoTech Park (IIP) in the Station Complex is spread over an area of 80 hectares with almost 6 lack sq. ft. of built up space of the Vashi Railway Station at its epicenter. The IIP houses shops specific to Computer Industry.
There are five Shopping malls functioning in Vashi, named Center One, City Center, Raghuleela, Inorbit and Palm Beach Galleria. They host a variety of large and small retailers, including Pantaloons, Big Bazaar, Globus, MAX, shoppers stop and Crosswords as well as a number of fast food joints and franchises. Almost 5 other malls are under construction which should get ready in next couple of years.
Vashi also hosts a number of colleges. Father Agnel College (formally, Father Conceicao Rodrigues Institute of Technology , ICLES Motilal Jhunjhunwala College and Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil College (formerly known as Modern College) are among the well known colleges in the node.
The Mumbai Divisional SSC Board, one of the divisional boards of the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary Education is headquartered in Vashi in Sector 16-A.
