CIDCO adopted polycentric pattern of planning and development of Navi Mumbai. It prepared a master plan in October 1975 and was approved by the government in August 1971.

A subsidiary of the state-owned State Industrial Investment Corporation of Maharashtra Limited (SICOM), it was later made independent and given administrative powers over the New Bombay region. Since its work has to be coordinated with the independent BMC, a regulatory body, the MMRDA was set up as an apex body.

CIDCO Kharghar as it is better known as is one of the most well-planned city of Navi Mumbai that is the largest planned new-city projects of the world.
Some of the major CIDCO projects include the Navi Mumbai International Airport, NMSEZ (Navi Mumbai Special Economic Zone), railway projects for Mass Rapid Transit System, leisure zones like Central Park, Nature Park, Urban Haat, Kharghar Golf Course, Integrated complex at Seaswood Railway Station etc.....

The Navi Mumbai International Airport.

The organisation responsible for developing infrastructure in Maharashtra, has said that it will meet the deadline of 2012 for completion of the first phase of the Navi Mumbai International Airport.

The airport, to be built at a cost of Rs2,787 crore, will have a capacity of 10 million passengers per year.
By then, the existing international airport at Mumbai is expected to reach its saturation point of 40 million passengers per annum.