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Land for Mukesh Ambani's dream SEZ in Raigad district will now be reclaimed with money out of your purse.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has accepted the Reliance group's proposal to dump construction debris on the low-lying 2,180 hectare site for its Mahamumbai special economic zone, but read more »
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After returning from his 10 day europe trip maharashtra CM vilasrao deshmukh ruled out voting style adopted in raigad sez for other special economic zones.
He also said that there was a demand from residents of 22 villages to exclude their lands from sez as the area fall under irrigation project. read more »
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In the first-ever referendum in the country involving farmers, more than 6,000 land-owners from 22 Raigad villages made their views on a special economic zone known on Sunday.

Judging by the mood of the farmers in the command area of the Hetwane irrigation dam, it appears that the Reliance group will have its task cut out to acquire land for its multi-crore SEZ project in the Konkan area.

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With the historic referendum on the fate of the proposed special economic zone (SEZ) in Raigad just a week away, the Maharashtra government has decided to double the compensation amount — from ten lakh rupees per hectare to twenty lakh rupees per hectare — for the farmers who stand to lose their land.

This is in addition to the promise of making them stakeholders in the mega project and the a read more »
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Close to 2000 acres of rice fields in Raigad are being destroyed by tidal water. The Maharashtra government is yet to repair the bunds built to keep seawater away. And now the land cannot be productive for three years.

The inclusion of some of this land in the proposed reliance SE read more »
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Traffic on the Mumbai-Goa national highway was on Tuesday disrupted as 500-odd farmers protesting against the setting up of a special economic zone in Raigad district blocked the road for more than two hours.

Eknath Thakur, a farmer from Div village who owns two-and-a-half acres, said: "We would not have opposed the land acquisition if any industry was coming here. But the SEZ will only fulfi read more »
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In MTDC proposed Entertainment SEZ in first week of february and got a tough opposition from local fishermans and farmers. But now MTDC has gone ahaed and opened up four plots of land in the Manori-Gorai belt measuring a total of 45 lakhs square metres in a bid to make the pristine stretch of beaches and mangroves one of the largest entertainment hubs in the country. read more »
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Over 10,000 people—including fishermen, farmers, social activists and NGOs—on Sunday shouted slogans and marched to the gates of Essel World at Gorai to protest against the Special Economic Zone coming up in the area.

The protesters warned that they would not tolerate any attempt to take away their land to make way for an entertainment zone, which would leave thousands of fishermen and farmers read more »
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Avasari Khurd, a typical nondescript Maharashtrian village, may well rewrite the unhappy script that the SEZ (special economic zone) story has followed so far.

Nestled in the plains of Ambegaon, 40 km from Pune, Avasari's farmers have designed an SEZ that will be owned, largely constructed, and managed by themselves.

"The Avasari farmer," says 72-year-old Sopanrao Bhor, prime mover of read more »
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India’s first SEZ (special economic zone) in the co-operative sector, worth Rs 930 crore, will be set up in Girner village near Aurangabad in the backward Marathwada region following the lead taken by a 62-year-old civil engineer-turned-farmer, Mohan Raut.

Encouraged by his own success in the cooperative sector-after graduating from Mumbai’s VJTI in civil engineering, he moved to Aurangabad n read more »
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Herein probably lies the key to avoiding strife over special economic zones (SEZs).

While industrialists are eyeing farmers' land across the country, a village barely 40 km from the city has taken the initiative to set up its very own SEZ.

And now, the state government has given the go-ahead for this the first farmers' SEZ in the country, which will be set up at Avasari Khurd village in read more »
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They are the reluctant inheritors of wealth. Reluctant, not because they don’t want the money, but they don’t want it at the cost of one thing they cherish as much as their lives — their farm land which is under threat of being acquired for the proposed new international airport at Chakan.

Unlike in some other villages, also in Khed taluka, where land is being acquired quite peacefully and wi read more »
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"The Navi Mumbai SEZ has been cleared with the condition that promoters should build, within a year, the infrastructure that would ensure contiguity on the 1,250-hectare land where it is coming up in Maharashtra," Commerce Secretary and Chairman of BoA G K Pillai said.

With timely completion of this project and Metro rail, coastal transport etc, life should improve in and around Mumbai. Do w read more »
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If all goes well, Mumbai city will have a new IT park, in Chembur. As of now, it the new IT park is expected to be the Mumbai's biggest IT and IT-enabled services (ITES) special economic zone (SEZ) at 30 lakh sq-ft. read more »
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