Goa govt decides to revoke land allotments to seven SEZs
Friday, 13 June , 2008, 23:15
Panaji: Creating further difficulty for the Special Economic Zone promoters, Goa government-run Industrial Development Corporation today decided to revoke land allotment to seven SEZs, including three notified ones.
The IDC board of directors, which met today, stamped on the decision to revoke the lands allotments, which will further trouble the SEZ promoters who are facing difficult times in the state. Digamber Kamat-led government has already declared its intention not to have any SEZ in the state and has moved to the Union Commerce Ministry to denotify the three SEZs while scrapping the rest.
Of the total 15 SEZs, seven – including three notified – were allotted land by the State-run IDC at its Verna, Sancoale industrial estates and Bhootkhamb plateau in north Goa's Keri village. IDC's move has come as a final nail in the coffins of SEZ projects here which are already fighting legal battle against State government's stop work orders.
"We took the resolution adhering to the State government's policy of no SEZs. It was a government directive to take such decision," IDC chairman Chandrakant Kavlekar told PTI afterthe meeting. He said that earlier Pratapsingh Rane led government was in favour ofSEZs and hence IDC had allotted land to these industrial enclaves inthe state.The IDC has issued notices to all the seven SEZ promoters.
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The above is good news. Now the Government should prosecute the scamsters and those guilty of the SEZ scams should be brought to book. Otherwise the SEZ developers will fight their way back on the pretext of arbitrariness or something like that. If any compensations are found to be owing to anyone, they should come from the pockets of the scamsters including successive politicians right and centre.
Also, will the Government make a categoric announcement that its policy of no SEZs means that its earlier SEZ policy stands scrapped. Also, as a logical consequence, will the IT Policies and theBio-technology policies which enable the Government to consider ITParks and bio-tech parks as "deemed SEZs" be revamped?
If this is not done, then it's mere hogwash
- Albertina Almeida
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Good. something has stated working. We should not keep quite. Be alert. Till SEZ is all out.
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