National Strategy Meet against SEZ
19th & 20th December’07
Gandhi Peace Foundation
221/223 D.D.U Marg, New Delhi (more…)

Sudipto Mondal

Mangalore, november 25, 2007: The value of a number of residential buildings at Sankada Bali area of Kalavaru village has been fixed as “nil” after a survey by the Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB). (more…)

Panaji, November 25, 2007: Members of the Goa’s Movement Against Special Economic Zones (GMAS), which is spearheading an agitation for scrapping of the proposed special economic zone (SEZ) projects in the State, on Friday went on a fast in the city in support of their demands. (more…)

Bangalore, November 25, 2007: The Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS) and Hasiru Sene will begin an agitation against the Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in the State. President of KRRS and Hasiru Sene Kodihalli Chandrashekar told presspersons here on Saturday that there was need to create a pan-Karnataka movement to bring pressure on the government to shelve the SEZ plans. (more…)

New Delhi, November 25, 2007 (PTI): In the backdrop of controversies over setting up of SEZs, the central government has unveiled a new policy which provides for discouraging acquisition of agricultural land for non-farming purposes and setting up a commission to look into resettlement aspects. (more…)

Chikmagalur, November 25, 2007: Save Western Ghats District Organising secretary Gajendra Gorasukudige opined here on Friday that if the Special Economic Zones were not restructured to suit the native conditions, it would turn out another neo-colonial strangle hold. (more…)

Mangalore, November 25, 2007: It was the inaugural programme of Krishi Vignan Kendra (KVK) building at the College of Fisheries at Yekkur where the farmers affected by Mangalore Special Economic Zone (MSEZ) vented out their frustration and pangs of losing land. (more…)