`Oppose SEZs'

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: Civil rights group Jan Hastakshep has passed a resolution to
oppose the special economic zone (SEZ) policy of the Government at all
levels.

Following a panel discussion on SEZs earlier this week with emphasis on
the Singur issue, Rajendra Sarangi, an activist with Lok Pakhya of
Orissa, said the SEZs were a new tactic of the Indian and the
international corporate houses to expropriate farmers.

Former bureaucrat K.B. Saxena cited statistics to show how acquisition
of land for the SEZs would lead to unemployment.

While lawyer Prashant Bhushan described the SEZ policy as a real estate
scam, Aparna of Jan Hastakshep said the policy had to be opposed at all
levels.

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