Orissa To Come-Out With SEZ Policy

Orissa will soon come out with a SEZ policy keeping the social and business interests in mind. SEZ is a very complex word involving lot of issues. Nevertheless one just cannot ignore the benefits of having SEZs in the state. At the same time, there are some issues to be sorted out. The earlier SEZ policy of the centre had many shortcomings and hence we would come out with a policy which would be acceptable to all, Minister of Industries Biswabhusan Harichandan said.

With incidents of Singur and Nadigram in West Bengal along with Kalingnagar in Orissa, the minister added that steps are being taken so that no such incidents take place in future. The incidents had reached such a grave stage because of the handiwork of certain political parties. Taking genuine grievances into account, we have also brought out a special rehabilitation package, the minister added.

Senior officials looking after the rehabilitation process added that dialogues were undertaken with local people and hence every major son within a family would be treated as a separate family and unmarried women above the age of 30 would also be regarded so.

They added one member from each family would be given jobs at the factory for which their land have been taken after giving appropriate monetary compensation for land.