Unused Land Acquired for SEZs

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....nused Land Acquired for SEZs <br>News and Press Release<br>Dated:- 18-3-2015<br><BR>Land is a State subject. Land for Special Economic Zones (SEZs) is made available by the State Governments as per their respective policy and procedures. State Governments have been advised that in case of land acquisition for SEZs, first priority should be for acquisition of waste and barren land and if necessary ....

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....single crop agricultural land could be acquired for the SEZs. If perforce a portion of double cropped agricultural land has to be acquired to meet the minimum area requirements, especially for multi-product SEZs, the same should not exceed 10% of the total land required for the SEZ. The Board of Approval for SEZs only considers those proposals, which have been duly recommended by the State Governm....

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....ent. Further, the State Governments have been informed on 15th June, 2007 that the Board of Approval will not approve any SEZs where the State Governments have carried out or propose to carry out compulsory acquisition of land for such SEZs after 5th April, 2007. A Statement showing the State/UT-wise, total notified land area, area utilized and lying vacant in Processing Area of 365 notified SE....

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....Zs is given below: States/UT-wise area of notified Special Economic Zones (In hectares) (Up to 13.03.2015) Sl. No. States/UT Total Area Notified Total Area Utilized Area lying Vacant in Processing Area 1 Andhra Pradesh 11187.06 4493.96 2213.45 2 Chandigarh 58.46 23.62 34.84 3 Chhattisgarh 101.28 22.04 79.24 4 Goa 249.48 0 249.48 5 Gujarat 12382.83 6818.58 4795.29 6....

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.... Haryana 415.49 36.57 293.69 7 Jharkhand 16.42 0 16.42 8 Karnataka 2302.74 841.83 1039.12 9 Kerala 971.99 390.38 455.99 10 Madhya Pradesh 1551.13 209.93 726.96 11 Maharashtra 6579.70 1754.51 3123.52 12 Manipur 10.85 0 10.85 13 Nagaland 340 0 340 14 Odisha 491.08 300.06 191.01 15 Punjab 46.12 8.39 30.92 16 Rajasthan 773.30 136.78 636.51 17 Tam....

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....il Nadu 5266.00 2222.85 2795.01 18 Telangana 2048.96 1957.22 469.51 19 Uttar Pradesh 753.92 219.20 476.77 20 West Bengal 235.84 190.71 45.13 TOTAL 45782.64 19626.63 18023.71 The SEZ developers are encouraged to operationalize their respective SEZs at the earliest. Any denotification of a SEZ is carried out only after the concerned State Government has given its 'No Objection....

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....' for the same. This information was given by the Minister of State (Independent Charge) in the Ministry of Commerce & Industry Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today.<BR> News - Press release - PIB....