Podicherry, March 26, 2008: A Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is being set up at an estimated cost of Rs. 283.17 crore under public-private partnership mode, Lieutenant Governor Bhopinder Singh said in his address to the Assembly on Tuesday. (more…)

New Delhi, March 24, 2008: The Centre is contemplating amending the land acquisition law to ensure adequate compensation, both monetary and psychological, to people whose lands are acquired. (more…)

Hyderabad, March 25, 2008: The CPI today demanded that the Centre amend the SEZ Act to prevent governments from acquiring lands and also to enforce trade union laws in those zones. (more…)

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Jajpur, March 25, 2008: Tribals of Kalinga Nagar have threatened mass agitation against the indifferent attitude of the state government towards fulfilling their seven-point charter of demands. (more…)

Jaipur, March 26, 2008

For the largely agrarian villagers of Chota Bagru, a nondescript dusty hamlet 35km from the Pink City, the grass is definitely greener on the other side of the six-lane Jaipur-Ajmer Expressway. Forced to give up land for a SEZ coming up on their fields, the farmers rue their fate ever since the Vasundhara Raje government began acquiring land through the Jaipur Development Authority. (more…)

PUNE: Hundreds of farmers, led by former state minister Bhai Vaidya, on Tuesday protested at Karegaon, in Shirur taluka, about 50 km from here, opposing the special economic zone (SEZ) schemes of the government. (more…)