Exports from SEZs touch Rs 40,000 cr in 9 months Close on the heels of Goa government, buckling under political pressure, seeking scrapping of all SEZs in the state, the Export Promotion Council (EPC) and SEZ developers have underlined the need for "stability and continuity' of SEZ policy to multiply Indian exports.

Thousands of people from the ten villages of the Gorai-Uttan belt blocked road and water transport to Essel World on Sunday to protest against the proposed Special Entertainment Zone (SEZ) spread over 14,183 acres in the area. Pan India Paryatan Ltd, which owns Essel World on a 65 acres plot at Gorai, has already received an in-principle approval from the Union Ministry of Commerce for phase one of the plan that will be on 1,000 acres of land.

Anurag Viswanath & Manoranjan Mohanty / New Delhi India seeks to emulate China's SEZ policy though it is increasingly under attack there.

Keeping in view the assembly elections to be held in November, the Congress government in Delhi is making policies to woo voters. The government in a cabinet meeting today approved a programme to provide at least one-time meal to the poor in the Capital. A policy for the establishment of knowledge-based Special Economic Zones (SEZ) has also been approved. Besides, 10 common special courts would be set up to hear the trial of economic offences. The cabinet has also recommended summoning of budget session from March 17 to April 4.

SEZs the world over have proved to be a boon, notes a KPMG India study: SEZs - a window of business opportunities

With property prices skyrocketing across the country, there are suspicions that the government is covertly leveraging its sez policy to benefit realtors

Lalit B. Singhal, director general of the Lcommerce ministry's Export Promo

The government continues its patchwork repair of SEZ policy, as opposition mounts
ew issues in India have inflamed passions as have the Special Economic Zones (sezs), the sprawling enclaves conceived to function under special laws, beyond the pale of the normal law of the land.