This was announced by Industries Minister Biswabhusan Harichandan while replying to a query in the assembly on the status of SEZs in the state.
He informed the House that an SEZ spread over 250 acres for metallurgy-based engineering and downstream industries at Kalinga Nagar in Jajpur district had been dropped "for the time being".
Harichandan, however, did not reveal the reason behind the dropping of the SEZ at Kalinga Nagar, which hit the national headlines after an incident of police firing there on January 2, 2006 that claimed the lives of 13 people who were opposing the acquisition of land for industry.
"The proposed SEZ area that is temporarily dropped is part of the Kalinga Nagar industrial complex," said an official in the industries department.
Though Orissa received 17 proposals for setting up of SEZs in the state, only five had received formal approval and eight others were approved "in principle" by the Centre. Of the five SEZS, four were being developed by the state-run Infrastructure Development Corporation of Orissa while one was given to private sector Jindal Stainless Limited.
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