SEZs threat to labour rights'

Staff Reporter

Plan to set up 300 zones likened to new kind of colonisation

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VISAKHAPATNAM: Indian Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU) State general
secretary P. Prasad has assailed the alleged indiscriminate allotment of
land to special economic zones (SEZs) in the country undermining labour
rights. Describing the plan to set up 300 SEZs all over the country as
one bringing about new colonisation in the country at the cost of
farmers, he said the situation was akin to the pre-Independence times
when the Dutch, the British and the French had set up colonies.

Addressing a meeting organised to mark the State council meeting of the
IFTU here on Sunday, Mr. Prasad said the "mini colonies" coming up in
the name of SEZs would facilitate implementation of laws favourable to
those running the SEZs. IFTU State president S. Venkateswara Rao,
all-India general secretary P.Pradeep, district general secretary M.
Venkateswara Rao and AIKMS leader P. Eswara Rao participated.

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