Haryana govt accords approval to 3 more SEZs

Chandigarh, Nov 11 (UNI) The Haryana government has approved the proposal of setting up of three more Special Economic Zones (SEZs) on an area of 33,000 acre at Gurgaon, Ambala and Kundli.

Announcing this, a spokesman of the Industries department said that the decision had been taken in a meeting of Haryana Investment Promotion Board held recently under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda here.

The spokesman said that these SEZs include DLF multi-product SEZ in Gurgaon on an area of 20,000 acres, DLF multi-product SEZ in Ambala on an area of 3000 acres and Uni-Tech multi-product SEZ in Kundli (Sonipat) on an area of 10,000 acres.

He revealed that there would be 10 percent sweat equity of Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructural Development Corporation in all these products. A special purpose vehicle should be incorporated for the implementation of these products.

The private developers would have to buy the land at their own and the government would help only according to the land acquisition policy of the state, he added.

The spokesman said that these developers would set up their own independent power plants and if there was surplus power, the same would be bought by the state government through the process of competitive bidding. The developers should undertake community and capacity building programme immediately, he added.

He said that Haryana Investment Promotion Board also accorded approval for the setting up of single product SEZ to Reliance Haryana SEZ Ltd on 1395 acres land transferred by HSIIDC to the company subject to the condition that it should be utilized 100 percentfor processing and not for commercial activities.

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