asp.net mvc 3 - The name 'model' does not exist in current context in MVC3

I added a cshtml page in an project. When I tried to add the following declaration to it, I get an error: "The name 'model' does not exist in current context".

@model xyz.abc.SomeClass

I checked the references, all of them are in place. I added a web.config in view folder, but that didn't fix it.

Is there anything i am missing?