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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Farmers from Bakuri, Kesnand, Lonikand and Wagholi who stand to lose their land for the proposed Videocon special economic zone (SEZ), rejected the p
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