Panel recommends total review of SEZ Act
Economic Times, February 1, 2010, Page 11
NEW DELHI: The government should ’revisit’ its Special Economic Zone (SEZ) Act ’comprehensively’ and put a ban on transfer of common property and agricultural land for its implementation, a panel has recommended in its report. The Committee on State Agrarian Relations and the Unfinished Task in Land Reforms has noted that concerns of tribals and farmers remained ’totally unattended’ under the Act as there was no cost-benefit analysis for such projects and also due to the absence of an upper limit fixed for land acquisition. The report of the committee, which was set up by the Rural Development Ministry in 2007, was submitted through the ministry to the National Land Reforms Council, headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, sources in the ministry said. The committee noted that the status of ’deemed foreign territory’ to SEZs stands to undermine the institutions set up under (Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996) as also the rights of the individual citizens.
Economic Times, February 1, 2010, Page 11
NEW DELHI: The government should ’revisit’ its Special Economic Zone (SEZ) Act ’comprehensively’ and put a ban on transfer of common property and agricultural land for its implementation, a panel has recommended in its report. The Committee on State Agrarian Relations and the Unfinished Task in Land Reforms has noted that concerns of tribals and farmers remained ’totally unattended’ under the Act as there was no cost-benefit analysis for such projects and also due to the absence of an upper limit fixed for land acquisition. The report of the committee, which was set up by the Rural Development Ministry in 2007, was submitted through the ministry to the National Land Reforms Council, headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, sources in the ministry said. The committee noted that the status of ’deemed foreign territory’ to SEZs stands to undermine the institutions set up under (Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996) as also the rights of the individual citizens.
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