sheila, Mangalore

I'm amazed that these people even considered giving up their homes and lands for the Mangalore SEZ! Don't they know what the condition of those who gave up their lands for MRPL was, and still is!!?? Any visit even today to the Rehab colony at Chelliaru will speak volumes about the "corporate social responsibility" claims of MRPL. I hope these villagers dont fall prey to MRPL's machinations this time as they push through their MSEZ project....

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B S Naik, Puttur

This how a responsible body like KIADB is behaving after having done thier job by aquiring those poor people's land. I have understood from a source of KIADB that they also instructing the companies not to give any jobs to locals and to Mangaloreans. The top officers of KIADB are making money by influencing all top jobs to outsiders.

This can be realised how the NPCL project is coming up silently without recruiting anybody from Mangalore. I think all job promises made by the authorities during land aquisition are bogus and the people will always gets cheated by the Govt. But we don't understand these facts, and keep on supporting the industrial growth by cost of thousands poor people's life.

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Joe Britto, Nakre/Bangalore

It's still not late for Mangalore SEZ's to be scrapped : PLs see extrcats from Buisiness standard of 28th instant Quote : "Govt likely to use 1897 Act to denotify Goa SEZs Rituparna Bhuyan / New Delhi February 28, 2008 A 111-year-old law is one of the key options the government could invoke to handle the challenges arising out of the possible denotification of three Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in Goa. Last week, the inter-ministerial Board of Approvals had recommended starting talks with the Goa government on denotifying the three SEZs following strong local protests in Goa last year, creating a precedent that is being closely watched by potential investors in India and abroad. This is because the process of denotification itself is complex and could be long-drawn.

The SEZ Act, 2005, does not have specific provisions for denotification. The Act, however, has provisions empowering the central government to issue policy directions to the Board of Approvals (under subsections 5 and 6 of Section 9). This power is derived from the General Clauses Act of 1897, an umbrella law covering all Acts and government notifications passed by the Centre. Section 21 of this Act empowers the government to add, amend, vary or rescind sections in notifications, orders, rules or bylaws issued by it. This means the central government is, on reading the two laws together, empowered to override the SEZ Act to account for measures like denotification.

The other two denotification routes are amendment of the SEZ Act through Parliament and through a presidential ordinance. The latter has been ruled out since Parliament is in session and there is nothing to stop the developers of the three SEZs from going to court if the government waits for the session to end. An amendment of the SEZ Act will not only need approval from the commerce ministry, but also may provoke political opposition from the Congress itself. For this reason, the government is unlikely to follow this route.

There are, however, some aspects of the denotification that the government cannot escape – the state government will have to pay compensation to the developers who bought land in the hope of developing it into sought-after tax free zones. Legal experts, however, said if the government denotifies the zones there could be serious legal consequences that could see the matter ending up in court for an unforeseen period. “There are no problems if provisions on denotifications are implemented with prospective effect. However, it is the implementation from retrospective effect that presents a hurdle,” said Hitendra Mehta, head, Vaish Associates. " Unquote

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prasad, mangalore

It is really surpising to see officals of kiadb doing these things to common man

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