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Mukesh’s SEZ among 21 cleared

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NEW DELHI: The Centre on Thursday gave formal clearance for 21 new special economic zones, including the multiproduct Navi Mumbai SEZ promoted by Mukesh Ambani of Reliance. It also gave in-principle approval for six SEZs, including two in West Bengal. At its meeting here, The Board of Approval discussed 39 applications.

Fourteen of the SEZs cleared were for information technology, IT-enabled services and electronic hardware.

Two were multiproduct SEZs and one each was for engineering, biotechnology, aluminium, petrochemicals and leather.

Five SEZs will come up in Maharashtra; three each in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh; two each in Gujarat and Punjab, and one SEZ each in Orissa and Haryana.

The first SEZ for the northeast — a 400-hectare multiproduct zone in Nagaland — was also cleared.

The BoA asked the promoters of the Navi Mumbai SEZ, spread over 1,250 hectares, to build the infrastructure within a year, ensuring contiguity of the allotted land. Earlier, clearance was denied for the SEZ on the issues of contiguity and rights of villages in its vicinity.

The BoA approved an aluminium product SEZ at Sambalpur in Orissa promoted by Hindalco Industries, a biotech SEZ by Parsvnath Developers in Andhra Pradesh and a 588-hectare petrochemicals SEZ in Karnataka.

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