'Goa SEZ developers should take a cue from Tata'

The anti special economic zone crusadors in Goa have asked all the three notified SEZ developers to 'toe Ratan Tata's line in West Bengal.'

"These notified SEZ developers trying to bargain with the state government should take a cue from Ratan Tata and honourably quit Goa once and for all as he had done in West Bengal," Goa's Movement against SEZs convenor Mathany Saldanha told reporters at Panaji on Tuesday evening.

Tatas had exit West Bengal after Singur row and now plans for its Nano plant in Gujarat.

"The Goa special economic zone developers should quit the state to avoid further disturbances," Saldanha, former state tourism minister, said.

Of the 15 SEZs, the state has managed to scrap 12 while three are awaiting denotification.

Goa's senior Congress leader Shantaram Naik had recently made a statement that these developers will initiate talks with Chief Minister Digamber Kamat for alternate land in the state for industries (not SEZ). 

Terming

the alternate land proposals as "mechanisms of land sharks", Saldanha said that the state should not fall pray for these tricks.

"We dont want three SEZ promoters to take up any projects in the state in any form," Saldanha said.

The GMAS is leading the anti-SEZ agitation right from the beginning and it was this organisation that gave call for tourists a year back to leave the state during new year celebrations expecting violent agitation.

The anti-SEZ organisation has strongly condemned Union Commerce Minister Kamal Nath's initiatives which they termed were 'an attempt to rehabilitate three SEZs in Goa.'

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