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Andhra Pradesh state government has forcibily acquired about 1000 acres of farm land at Polepally in Mahabubnagar district and is trying to establish a Formulations (Pharma) SEZ in these lands.
Local farmers - mostly poor, illiterate STs and SCs were bullied, threatened and were made to part with their lands for as little as Rs. 18,000 per acre. Continue reading ‘Fighting Injustice in Polepally (Jadcherla) SEZ’
Monthly Archive for August, 2008
Investment in SEZs to reach Rs 2 trillion by end-2009: Pillai
22 Aug, 2008, 1929 hrs IST, PTI
MUMBAI: Investment in Special Economic Zones (SEZs) is expected to reach the Rs 2 trillion mark by next year end and they are expected to generate around eight million jobs, a senior Government official said. Continue reading ‘Investment in SEZs to reach Rs 2 trillion by end-2009: Pillai’
UPA to review SEZ law
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BY OUR CORRESPONDENT
Mumbai
Aug. 22: The area under the handicraft business in the Special Economic Zones will be decreased to 10 hectares from 100 hectares, and there will be a refund of service tax paid by the companies who outsource work outside the SEZ. Continue reading ‘UPA to review SEZ law’
Posted by: “Pravin Sabnis” pravinsabnis@yahoo.com
Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:42 pm
The SEZ Virodhi Manch expresses disgust
at the double standards of the government
of making empty statements/promises
with regard to the scrapping of SEZs from Goa.
Continue reading ‘Raheja starts work, SVM stops work’
Invitation
SOUTHERN REGIONAL STRATEGY MEETING ON SEZ
September 13-14th, 2008, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Dear All,
Zindabad! August 13th, 2008
You all are, in some way or the other, part of struggles against forcible land acquisition and displacement. You are well aware of how State and Corporates are conniving and using various coercive and repressive means to acquire land, displacing people and local livelihoods and exploiting other natural resources for “industrialisation”/”economic development”. Issues of sovereignty of panchayat institutions, employment vs loss of livelihood, land speculations, tax expemptions to corporates, environmental pollution, water extraction, power distribution are very crucial to the debate and protest against SEZs. Continue reading ‘SOUTHERN REGIONAL STRATEGY MEETING ON SEZ SEPT ‘08′
BACKGROUND
In 2005 a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Y.S Rajashekar Reddy and ONGC on 03-09-2005 to establish an Oil Refinery as an SEZ near Kakinada, the headquarters of East Godavari District for which an area of 9869 acres was to be acquired under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894. Continue reading ‘Situation tense at Kakinada again’
Bangalore, August 7, 2008: IT companies jostling for space in Bangalore can hope for better days ahead. The government is setting up a sprawling IT park on 2,000 acres around the City to create the much-needed space for IT firms to expand their activities. Continue reading ‘Govt plans park for IT majors’
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