India Environment Portal | News, reports, documents, blogs, data, analysis on environment & development | India, South Asia
Published on India Environment Portal | News, reports, documents, blogs, data, analysis on environment & development | India, South Asia (http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in)

Home > News > SEZ and land grab > SEZ and land grab

SEZ and land grab [1]

Builders are jumping on to the SEZ bandwagon, distorting priorities

Whatever their view on the benefits of Special Economic Zones (sez), most observers agree that the question of land acquisition is problematic. Land required for giant public works such as dams or for large industrial projects was not a contentious matter for several decades.

Publication Date: 
11/03/2007
Yogi Aggarwal [2]
Business India (Mumbai) [3]
Tags:
Land Acquisition [4], Narmada [5], Dams [6], Displacement [7], Special Economic Zones (SEZ) [8], West Bengal [9]
Centre for Science and Environment
National Knowledge Commission Government of India

Technology Partners: MimirTech


India Environment Portal by Centre for Science and Environment is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 India License.


Source URL: http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/sez-and-land-grab

Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/sez-and-land-grab
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/yogi-aggarwal
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/business-india-mumbai
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/land-acquisition
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/narmada
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/dams
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/displacement
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/special-economic-zones-sez
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/west-bengal