Special Economic Zones (SEZ)

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding large scale felling of toddy yielding palm trees in Bihar, 05/06/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …

Go-slow on steel plant

Calcutta, June 17: The Jindals have decided to push back their Salboni project as Maoist rage singes the region slated to house Bengal

The great SEZ rush skids on slowdown, land issues

Rituparna Bhuyan / New Delhi/ahmedabad/mumbai June 18, 2009, 0:31 IST Almost half the proposals to be taken up by the Board of Approval involve developers wanting to curtail their plans. When the Board of Approval for special economic zones (SEZs) meets on Friday, liaison and corporate affairs executives will jostle …

High Court adjourns SEZ pleas

Hearing on Special Economic Zone (SEZ) petitions was adjourned till July 27 to allow the petitioners to amend the petitions in view of withdrawal of SEZ policy by the State Government. The petitioners were granted two weeks to amend petitions and replies would be filed thereafter. When the matter came …

Get notified SEZs de-notified,SVM tells govt

Welcoming the decision of the Goa government to scrap the SEZ policy for Goa, the SEZ Virodhi Manch has warned that it will not rest till the approvals granted by the Central government are withdrawn and the notified SEZs denotified. Demanding that the government should not enter into any deal …

Goa scraps SEZ policy, at last

Finally, the controversial Special Economic Zone (SEZ) policy 2006 is scrapped. Interestingly, the Cabinet decision on this comes one-and-a-half year after the Goa Government officially said

Renewable energy use to be made mandatory for SEZs

New Delhi: The government is considering a regulation to make use of renewable energy mandatory for special economic zones (SEZ) to save on traditional fuel like coal and diesel. The Ministries of Commerce & Industry and New & Renewable Energy are working on the modalities for such a regulation.

State washes its hands of Reliance SEZ

MUMBAI: Both chief minister Ashok Chavan and revenue minister Patangrao Kadam on Tuesday distanced themselves from the row over the acquisition of land for the Rs 40,000 crore Mahamumbai SEZ promoted by industrialist Mukesh Ambani-controlled Reliance group. Chavan, who was earlier industries minister, said his government will abide by the …

Mumbai SEZ can buy time from BoA for land acquisition

Mukesh Ambani-promoted Mumbai SEZ, a multi-product trade zone that is close to getting scrapped over its failure to acquire land for the project, has the option of approaching the Board of Approval (BoA) to extend the deadline beyond Monday.

Denotification of SEZs: Goa govt flayed

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today criticized the State government for not pressing hard to get the three SEZs (special economic zones) denotified. Addressing a press conference, here, party spokesman Govind Parvatkar accused the Congress-led government in Goa of not having any hold with the Centre and further charged that …

New land acquisition policy to be introduced

President Pratibha Patil today said the government would reintroduce the Amendment Bill to the Land Acquisition Act and the Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill in the forthcoming budget session of Parliament. If the Bills are enacted, it will not only help in better implementation of infrastructure and industrial projects, but also …

Coastal Submersion Zone may come into force: Wildlife expert

'There is an immediate need for safeguarding coastal environment. Considering the fact that global warming is looming at large, soon a concept of Coastal Submersion Zone might come into force after CRZ and CMZ,' said Prof B C Choudhury from Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun. Addressing a talk on

Set for overhaul

plus that are awaiting clearance. What the ministry did not announce was the uncertainty among its top bureaucrats over the policy framework that would come into play if the upa coalition does not come to power, or a modified version of the upa takes office. Two of the most critical …

Oil in the well

Company chokes water supply of 25 families in Karnataka Kamala Shetty, resident of Kuthethoor village in Mangalore, was distressed when she looked into her well on a sunny April morning. The water, she found, was laced with oil. It

Septic horror seeps into ground water

May 27: The developing port town of Kakinada is headed for an ecological disaster. It

Wetlands that neutralise toxins encroached upon

May 27: Environmentalists are up in arms over the encroachment of wetlands. They maintain that wetlands serve to neutralise the toxins discharged through industrial effluents and domestic sewage, before letting the water percolate down into the earth to replenish aquifers. They argue that the government is violating norms by allowing …

SEZ notification of Ministry of Commerce and Industry dated 27 May, 2009

Notification of Ministry of Commerce and Industry dated 27 May, 2009 notified the Special Economic Zones at Mundra in the State of Gujarat.

HC ruling spells trouble for SEZ

MUMBAI: A day after the Bombay high court disposed of a writ petition filed by Reliance's Mahamumbai SEZ, the fate of the Rs 40,000 crore project hangs in balance as the on-going protest movement has gained momentum. "Despite the fact that the apex court is seized of the row over …

In-SEZ-ant inaction

All over the country, developers of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) are desperate to abandon their ventures, owing to the ongoing recession and liquidity crunch in the economy. For example, one of the country

Need to make SEZ laws error-free

TNC Rajagopalan / New Delhi May 25, 2009, 0:36 IST Trinamool Congress leader and new Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has called for a review of the Special Economic Zones (SEZ) policy. Whoever takes over as the Union commerce minister will have to do it in any case, as it is …

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