SEZs will not be thrust upon Goa: Kamal Nath
New Delhi, Jan 4: Union Commerce Minister Kamal Nath on Thursday assured Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat that the Centre would not thrust any Special Economic Zones (SEZ) in the state and all SEZs in the state including the notified ones will be reviewed. The Central Government does not want to thrust upon any state SEZ which is not conducive," Nath told reporters here. Talking about the three notified SEZs, he said: "There is absolute provision in the (SEZ) Act for everything."
After the Goa Government decided to scrap all SEZs in the state, on Wednesday, Union Commerce Secretary G K Pillai had said: "The SEZs that have been notified have become legal entities and cannot be denotified."
The
State
Government
faced
a
tough
time
last
week
with
anti-SEZ
protestors
intensifying
their
movement.
There
have
been
protests
against
SEZs
in
several
states,
including
West
Bengal,
Maharashtra
and
Haryana,
but
Goa
is
the
first
Congress-ruled
state
to
have
gone
back
on
the
SEZ
policy.
ANI