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SVM stops SEZ scam at Verna

by PRAVIN SABNIS
On Monday, 10 December 2007, a team of SEZ Virodhi Manch (SVM) went to check on reports by locals that work was in progress on Sunday night, in clear contravention of the Chief minister's directive for stopping work in the Verna SEZs.

We were shocked to see the hill being cut.
We demanded that the work be immediately stopped and that all machinery and workers be moved out of the fraudulent SEZ (it is YET to be notified, BUT the work is in full swing).
The PRINT and ELECTRONIC MEDIA and over 200 activists of the SVM from Verna, Loutolim, Keri, Sancaole, Betul and elsewhere gathered at the site and were witness to the following facts:

The Fraudulent Role of GIDC

by SEZ.VirodhiManch
HOW GIDC FUNCTIONS AS AN AGENT FOR DEVELOPERS SEEKING TO GRAB GOAN LAND & MLAS FURTHERING THEIR POLITICAL INTERESTS

1. Even though allotment of land is for SEZ, none of the Provisions of the SEZ Act 2005, more particularly Sections 3, 4 and 5 have been followed, and therefore, the whole allotment gets vitiated on this ground.

2. At least three of the four companies in the Verna Industrial Estate are new companies not having any experience at all and K. Rahejas is purely a real estate developer. Therefore, it appears that these companies have been specifically been floated for the purpose of grabbing this land under the guise of SEZ.

Goa sold for a song

Br. Orville de Silva

The demographic, social, cultural and environmental patterns in Goahave undergone rapid changes in recent times. Such changes call for acollective concern and participation by the people the Goa and itsruling government. However, amidst such changes, Goa's politicians have found enough time and opportunity in promoting Special EconomicZones (SEZ) in Goa.

THE LAND USE PLAN MASKING ITSELF IN DIFFERENT FORMS

-Albertina Almeida

An important issue related to the Regional Plan that has got little attention is the Special Economic Zones. What are Special Economic Zones? Planet Mars on Planet Earth? Foreign territory within our territory? “A designated duty free enclave and to be treated as foreign territory for trade operations and duties and tariffs”, as the Government of India’s website on Special Economic Zones puts it. So there you are – by the Government’s own admission, we are inviting colonization - this time in a different form. It is colonization by transnational and national corporate capital. We worry about “outsiders” who till and toil over our territory, and do not want to give them their due. But we don’t care about outsiders and so also the insiders who grab and deprive the people in Goa and edge them out of their land and livelihood.

SEZ’s not viable in Goa (CSJP)

Dec. 2, 2007: Always alert to emerging socio-economic situations, especially in the State of Goa, the Council for Social Justice and Peace (CSJP) has been prompt in analyzing the impact of new developmental projects, with the assistance of relevant experts and often in collaboration with other concerned Agencies/Bodies.

In 1996, when the proposal was floated to establish a “Free Port” in Goa, this Body consulted widely with experts at even the international level and presented the findings at a Conference in Goa. The well informed and concerned participants asserted that a “Free Port” was not at all a feasible development for Goa.

How the SEZ numbers don't add up

by Rahul Goswami
Why would you want to swap the engine in your car for one that costs more, uses more petrol per kilometre, is more expensive to maintain, and takes up more space in your car? Such a swap wouldn't make sense to the careful motorist, and it shouldn't make sense to the CEO of a state either. That swap is just what the state of Goa is setting out to do by promoting special economic zones (SEZs) at the cost of existing manufacturing units.

SEZ

SVM stops SEZ scam at Verna

The Fraudulent Role of GIDC

Goa sold for a song

THE LAND USE PLAN MASKING ITSELF IN DIFFERENT FORMS

SEZ’s not viable in Goa (CSJP)

How the SEZ numbers don't add up

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