New Delhi: The Centre on Thursday postponed a decision on giving approval to a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) industrialist Mukesh Ambani has proposed in Navi Mumbai.
The Board of Approval delayed a decision after the Revenue Department objected to fencing of five villages and water bodies in the proposed SEZ.
The Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust has said that the SEZ should be built after the national highway passing through Navi Mumbai is upgraded to four-lane.
"We will seek comments from the state government and promoters on the report of the Revenue Department," Commerce Secretary and board chairperson Gopal K Pillai was quoted by PTI as saying.
The board, which will meet again on June 22, cleared the Tata group’s proposed 1,173-hectare SEZ in Orissa after getting approval from security agencies. The SEZ is located near a military establishment.
In all, 24 SEZs were given approval and six were given in-principle clearance. Decisions on five zones in Uttar Pradesh, where a new government has assumed office, were deferred but two in Kanpur promoted by state government agencies were cleared.
Two SEZ proposals from Madhya Pradesh were also deferred but one in Chhindwara, Commerce Minister Kamal Nath's constituency, was cleared.
The proposal of Parsvnath Developers to set up a bio-tech and pharma SEZ in Andhra Pradesh was also deferred.
The BoA approved a proposal of Genpact for an IT SEZ in Andhra. The Shirpur Gold Refinery's gems and jewellery SEZ in Maharashtra, Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation's biotech SEZ in Vadodara and two zones in Alwar were cleared.
In Alwar, a multi-product and multi-services SEZ have been proposed. One tourism-based SEZ in Manali got in-principle clearance.
So far, 111 SEZs have been notified and 41 are awaiting clearance. In the zones notified so far, Rs 35,000 crore have been invested and 32,578 direct jobs created.
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