:: SEZ Act - 2005 [ pdf, 416 KB]
:: SEZ Rules - 2006 [ pdf, 537 KB]
:: Ammendment to SEZ Rules dated 10th August, 2006 [ pdf, 60 KB]
:: Ammendment to SEZ Rules dated 16th march, 2007 [ pdf, 108 KB]
:: The Land Acquisition Act 1894 [ link]
:: National Rehabilitation & Resettlement Policy - 2007 [ pdf, 19 MB]
SEZs and land acquisition
This booklet concisely covers basic questions related to SEZ. Prepared by Citizens' Research Collective, N 14A Saket, New Delhi-110019. [ pdf, 212 KB]
Special Economic Zones : Revisiting the Policy Debate
A discussion of the pros and cons of the controversial SEZ policy. — Aradhna Aggarwal in Economic and Political Weekly, 6 November, 2006. [ pdf, 32 KB]
Help the Rich, Hurt the Poor - Case of Special Economic Zones
Recent twists and turns in the special economic zone policies which benefit the rich at the expenses of the poor expose the utter ignorance of ground realities by both the central and state governments. — By E. A. S. Sarma in Economic and Political Weekly, May 26 2007. [ pdf, 20 KB]
Special Economic Zones: Profits at Any Cost
No other economic ‘reform’ in India has seen such a rapid expansion of militant protests and conflicts as Special Economic Zones (SEZs). The intensification of the expropriation of livelihood resources of the masses since the 1990s with the launch of the New Economic Policy, followed by what is popularly referred to as ‘globalisation’, which in fact is liberalization, privatization and globalization, facilitated by the troika - the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and World Trade Organisation - has seen an outburst of conflict between the state and the people. The rapid accumulation of capital, the emergence of finance capital as the engine of change and control, and the materialization of the marauding global capital are set to change the political discourse of geographies and her peoples. — writes C. R. Bijay [ pdf, 84 KB ]
Negative Aspects of Special Economic Zones in China
The general impression that China's special economic zones are a remarkable success is an incomplete one. Left out of the picture are inequities in development, arable land loss, real estate speculation and labour violence. — Shankar Gopalkrishnan in Economic and Political Weekly, 28 April, 2007. [ pdf, 24 KB]
Special Economic Zones: Lessons From China
China‘s record economic growth rate fuelled by the Special Economic Zones (SEZ) is often advocated as the reason for India to adopt this approach. Since the 1980s, China implemented a series of measures and policies with the sole purpose of achieving rapid economic growth. As evidence over the years has shown, this single-minded pursuit of growth has lowered the efficiency and effectiveness of economic policies, besides incurring huge resource and environmental costs. The Chinese experience offers a valuable lesson for India. — writes Bhaskar Goswami , Courtesy : indiatogether.org [ pdf, 64 KB ]
Special Economic Zones in China and India
The dispute of the farmers against the oppressive governments in Singur, Nandigram, Orissa, Chratisgrah and Narmada Valley in India is not a war between industry and agriculture or between progress and conservatism but between basic human rights and a government determined to create a pure capitalistic heaven by taking over poor peoples only possession of a little land and a home without paying proper compensation. — writes Dipak Basu, Courtesy : ivarta [ pdf, 76 KB ]
- SEZ Newsletter from WHYSEZ publication [ pdf, 1.4 MB ]
- ‘Fact Fanding’ Report on Falta SEZ by Committee Against Violence on Women (CAVOW) [ pdf, 136 KB ]
