Keri, February 7, 2008 (PTI): After getting snubbed for its Special Economic Zones (SEZ) project, Cipla’s Meditab Specialities Pvt Ltd (MSPL) got some relief when majority of villagers here through a resolution, supported the plant in industry form.
The village panchayat has resolved that they will accept Cipla’s plant not as a SEZ but as a normal industry, the form acceptable to the locals, local legislator Pandurang Dhavalikar told reporters. The notified SEZ is still under scrutiny of Central Board of Approvals that is considering the State Government’s request to de-notify it along with two other SEZs in the state. Goa has already scrapped 12 SEZs.
The locals who had raised hue and cry over Cipla’s pharma SEZ at Bhootkhamb plateau in remote Keri village in North Goa, on Sunday, through gramsabha, accorded their support for the plant. Incidentally, the plant will take shape on 12 lakh square metres of land.
It had to be stalled after villagers raised a banner of protest. Cipla’s project too had met similar fate initially when on December 7, 2007, locals entered into the property asking the developers to stop the work.
The day later, Chief Minister Digamber Kamat announced that the promoters were asked to stop the work till the further government order. The project received another setback when the Chief Minister declared intention to de-notify three SEZs while scrapping 12 such exclusive industrial enclaves.
Source: NewIndPress.com
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