Left decries ‘piecemeal changes’ in SEZ policy

 
POLITICAL BUREAU
Posted online: Saturday, March 24, 2007 at 0000 hours IST
 
        
 
 
NEW DELHI, MAR 23:  The CPI(M) on Friday launched a fresh attack on the Centre for ignoring the Left parties' suggestion while making "piecemeal changes" in the SEZ rules. The party demanded that the government stop making such "piecemeal changes and review the entire policy."
In a statement the Marxists pointed out that while one of the change allowed the developers to "acquire more land in contiguous areas, the other seeks to continue with the tax concessions for the contractors working for the private SEZ developers."



 
The statement maintained that the changes go "against the suggestion given by the Left parties that a ceiling should be fixed for the size of SEZs."

The CPI(M) wondered how the government could come out with amendments even before the group of ministers (GoM) could complete the review of the entire SEZ policy.

It said: "The empowered group of ministers (eGoM) must finalise their report and only then the required changes should be put in place."
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