On 6 October 2006, the Board of Approvals gave formal approval for eight SEZs and 17 in-principle approvals for various projects. With
this, total number of formal approvals comes to 189 and in-principle approvals
to 146.
Formal approvals includes:
- Hindalco Industries' SEZ includes
manufacture and export of aluminium and aluminium products and a 750 MW
power plant spread over an area of 2,025 ha.
- Lotus Footwear Enterprises for
manufacture of footwear in a SEZ spread over 113.34 ha.
- Suzlon Infrastructure in Coimbatore
for high-technology product in an SEZ spread over 107.28 ha.
The rest of the five SEZs that were
granted formal approval will manufacture IT/ITeS SEZs, while a private developer
is to put up an SEZ for manufacture of software including ITeS in Kancheepuram
in Tamil Nadu.
The projects which got in-principle
approval includes:
- Two multi-product SEZs in West
Bengal promoted by the Salim Group of Indonesia with an investment of
Rs.12,500 crore.
- Aluminium SEZ by Hindalco
Industries in Sidhi district in Madhya Pradesh.
- Three proposals from Videocon
Realty and Infrastructures for setting up two multi-products with a combined
area of 2,080 hectares and one Electronics SEZ (144 ha) in West Bengal.
- One SEZ by Best and Crompton for
Textile and Apparel Parks in Krishnagiri district of Tamil Nadu.
- A 1,225 ha multi-product SEZ by
Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (TIDCO) in Perambular.
- A 1,000 ha multi-product SEZ by
Adani Exports Ltd in Alwar district, Rajasthan.
- A 4,050 ha multi-product SEZ by
Writers and Publishers Ltd in Indore, Madhya Pradesh.
Also See:
BoA clears 14
SEZs, prescribes norms (22-Sep-06)