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. Continue reading ‘‘Reconsider acquisition of agri land for SEZs’’
Monthly Archive for November, 2007
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. Continue reading ‘Farmers vent ire against MSEZ’
Panaji, November 23, 2007: The NGO, Goa’s Movement Against SEZ today held a day-long sit-in hunger strike at the Panaji jetty demanding immediate scrapping of all 18 SEZs in Goa. Continue reading ‘Anti-SEZ activists resort to hunger strike’
Nandini Sundar
It is hard to decide which is more unappetising – the spectacle of Buddhadeb Bhattacharya declaring that the CPM had paid protestors back in their own coin at Nandigram, or the BJP and Congress condemning the violence there, ignoring their own culpability for similar behaviour in Chhattisgarh and Gujarat. Continue reading ‘Is there a difference between left and right?: Nandigram and Salwa Judum’
New Delhi, November 24, 2007: Developers of special economic zones (SEZs) may have to employ one person from each family displaced due to a project even if the family did not own any land. The government may make some amendments in the resettlement and rehabilitation (R&R) policy to incorporate the changes. Continue reading ‘SEZ developers to hire landless displaced’
Panaji, November 23, 2007: The NGO, Goa’s Movement Against SEZ today held a day-long sit-in hunger strike at the Panaji jetty demanding immediate scrapping of all 18 SEZs in Goa. Continue reading ‘Anti-SEZ activists resort to hunger strike’
Nirmalya Mukherjee
Bhubaneswar, November 23, 2007: Business process offshoring company Genpact is in talks with the Madhya Pradesh government to set up an information technology special economic zone in the state. Continue reading ‘Genpact plans IT SEZ in Madhya Pradesh’
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