The Centre, on 27 October 2006
approved 44 SEZ projects including those by Wockhardt, Parsvnath Developers,
Ansal Properties and Suncity.
The Board of Approvals gave formal
clearances to 24 SEZ proposals and in-principle nod to 20 others, entailing an
aggregate investment of Rs.40,000 crore.
The proposals cleared included Global
Health's biotech SEZ at Gurgaon, Wockhardt's
pharma SEZ in Maharashtra and Suncity Haryana SEZ Developers' and Ansal
Properties and Infrastructure's IT SEZs in Haryana.
Besides, in-principle approvals were
given to Free Trade Warehousing Zone in Greater Noida, a multi-product zone in
Karnataka, Shapoor Pallonji Group's IT SEZ near Pune and Alok Infrastructure's
textile SEZ in Dadara & Nagar Haveli.
Till date the total applications so
far approved is 236 and that of in-principle clearance is169.
Also See:
BoA
clears 26 SEZ proposals (11-Oct-06)