The Board of Approvals on SEZs on 10 October 2006 cleared 26 proposals including those of Emmar Hills Township, Parsvnath Developers, and TCG Urban Infrastructure Holdings.

It also gave in-principle clearance to eight proposals including those for Writers & Publishers' proposal for a multi-product special economic zone in Chattisgarh and Rassai Properties & Industries' proposal for a multi-product zone in Andhra Pradesh.

As many as 11 of the 26 proposals cleared relate to Ranga Reddy district in Andhra Pradesh. These include two proposals of Maytas Properties and one of Rudradev Infopark for information technology zones. Lahari Infrastructure proposal for a services zone in the district and the proposals that granted in-principle approvals included two of Dr Reddy's Laboratories for pharma zones in Andhra Pradesh.

Among the other proposals cleared is Shree Renuka Sugars' integrated sugarcane processing complex with a sugar plant and distillery in Belgaum district of Karnataka.

The BoA considered a total of 82 proposals for SEZs in Assam, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh and the total number of formal approvals has now increased to 212 and that of in-principle approvals to 152.

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BoA gives formal approvals for eight SEZs (07-Oct-06)