'Wet lands will not be acquired for SEZ'
Seeking to clear apprehensions on the setting up of Special Economic Zones, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Saturday said wet lands would not be acquired for the SEZs.
By PTI |
CHENNAI: Seeking to clear apprehensions on the setting up of Special Economic Zones, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Saturday said wet lands would not be acquired for the SEZs.
"At least after my clarification, I hope all talks of split in the Democratic Progressive Alliance will vanish," he said reacting to PMK founder Dr S Ramadoss' remarks that government should not acquire wet lands for SEZs.
Describing the SEZs as a "dream project" that would usher in prosperity to the state, Karunanidhi said if the government did not provide certain facilities, the country "will be in the dark in the WTO regime".
Assuring that cultivable land would not be acquired for setting up SEZs, he said his government would strictly adhere to the guidelines issued by the Central Government that only dry lands were to be acquired for SEZs.
He said Ramadoss was not the only one who had opposed setting up of SEZs in wet land, but the Left parties had also done so. But in states like West Bengal, Andhra Pradeh, Punjab, Haryana, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, the SEZs were being set up after acquiring cultivable lands, he said.
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His earlier regime in the state, he said, had set up SEZ at Nanguneri in Tirunelveli district, for the development of southern districts of the state, on dry lands. But the scheme was shelved by the previous AIADMK government, he added.Download
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