The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh / Hyderabad News : TDP for probe into SEZs

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Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad

TDP for probe into SEZs

Staff Reporter

`Are they serving intended purpose?'

HYDERABAD: The Telugu Desam Party has demanded a judicial enquiry by a High Court Judge into the process of granting Special Economic Zones (SEZ) in the State and to look at whether they are being used for the intended purpose or not.

At a press conference on Saturday, party MP M.V. Mysoora Reddy released a list of SEZs approved by the Centre on the recommendation of the State Government. According to the list, 45 SEZs had been sanctioned, including 30 around the State capital spanning 3,000 acres, two each in Visakhapatnam and Nellore with an area of over 7,500 and 2,700 acres respectively and one spanning 10,000 acres in Kakinada.Nine more were in the pipeline and it was understood that at least three were sanctioned on Friday he said. "Are they being used for the purpose they were allotted or not?" he wondered.Dr. Mysoora Reddy said one only had to look at the list of SEZ allotments to understand that people unconcerned with the sectors that it was being sanctioned for, had used their political clout to get huge tracts of land.

Although the list did contain names of companies, Dr. Reddy did not name them.

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