Solidarity Against SEZs - Demand for PEZs


amka naka SEZ, amka zai PEZ

(we do not want SEZ, we want PEZ)

PEZ: rice gruel (in Konkani) PEZ= Peoples' Economic Zones


Monday, June 2, 2008

the Return of the SEZS?

Our worst doubts stand confirmed.
The Central Govt has intimated the Goa Government that
it CANNOT denotify the 3 SEZ notified for Goa.

Five months after its public posturing to scrap the SEZs, the Goa Government has done precious little to address the following SVM demands:
1. revoke the June 2006 SEZ Policy
2. constitute CBI inquiry against the obvious fraud of the SEZs in Goa.
3. order Goa Police to register the FIR against the fraud by GIDC based on the complaint made on 22 October 2007
4. cancel the allotments made to SEZ companies by GIDC when there was no SEZ policy in the state
5. amendment of the Goa Industrial Act 1985 and deletion of the provisions taking away powers of Panchayat in respect of industrial estates


All this points to the obvious abetment of the crime.
The Government acts of omission and commission stand exposed.
But they forget the the determined resistance against SEZs in Goa.
It is time for people to teach a lesson to the Government again.
Amka naka SEZ, amka zai PEZ

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