Mangalore, November 6, 2007: Of the total 3,985 acres of land to be used for the proposed Mangalore Special Economic Zone (MSEZ), 17.20 per cent (about 685 acres) area will be reserved for maintaining greenery, said MSEZ Chief Operating Officer (COO) A G Pai. (more…)
Kandla, November 05, 2007: The Kandla Port Trust has submitted the detailed project report of its proposed SEZ at Kandla, Gujarat, for government approval. The DPR was prepared by KITCO. Speaking to ProjectsToday, KPT officials informed that the SEZ had received in-principle approval from the ministry of commerce and industry and was likely to finalise the contractor soon for executing the project. (more…)
Rajat Guha & Mayur Shekhar Jha
New Delhi, November 7, 2007 (TNN): Large-scale conversion of land from agriculture to commercial use has caught the government’s attention. The Centre has asked state governments to set up regulatory bodies to monitor if converted land is used for the specified purpose within a specified time-frame. The state regulators would have the power to buy back the land at existing circle rates if the land is not used for the specified purpose within a specific time frame. (more…)
Ganesh Kanate
Mumbai, November 07, 2007: Sharad Pawar, NCP chief and Union agriculture minister, on Tuesday announced that the government would not acquire even one acre of land for the proposed special economic zone (SEZ) of Videocon on the outskirts of Pune. DNA had indicated as much in its November 6 edition. (more…)
New Delhi, November 06, 2007: “Land is the issue,” was the unanimous conclusion of a public hearing here on Monday on “Special Economic Zones and Land Rights” by Navdanya. It was attended among others by the former Prime Minister, V.P. Singh, S.P. Shukla of the National Committee on Agrarian Crisis and P.V. Rajgopal of Ekta Parishad. (more…)
Pamela D’Mello
Panaji, November 6, 2007: Villagers from rural Goa have intensified their agitation against SEZs in Goa, dragging state officials to several sites and demanding stoppage of work in two areas. (more…)
Kolkata, November 06, 2007 (IANS): West Bengal’s trouble-torn Nandigram turned into a virtual battlefield Tuesday as fresh violence claimed two lives in a turf war between the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and the Trinamool Congress. (more…)