Parliamentary panel pulls up govt on SEZs
A Parliamentary Committee has pulled up the government for going ahead with approvals for more Special Economic Zones without waiting for its report on the subject.
By PTI |
NEW DELHI: A Parliamentary Committee has pulled up the government for going ahead with approvals for more Special Economic Zones without waiting for its report on the subject.
"The committee feels that it would have been in fitness of things if the Department of Commerce had waited for the Committee's report on SEZs," the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Commerce said in its report.
The committee is at present examining the functioning of SEZs and would shortly submit its report but the government announced changes in policy and notified a few more zones without waiting for it, the report said.
The decision to change the rules and notify SEZs, which have formal approval, was taken at the meeting of empowered Group of Ministers on April 5.
The eGoM was formulated in view of unrest in certain parts of the country about the SEZ policy.
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Since the meeting, the government has notified 37 more SEZs taking their total to 100.The other decisions of the eGoM to limit the size of SEZs to 5,000 hectares and stop compulsory acquisition of land for the zones are yet to be notified.
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