Sharma orders denotifiation of SEZ in Goa

Mr Shantaram Naik M.P. today met Commerce Minister Shri Anand Sharma and requested him to denotify the three notified SEZs of Goa immediately, upon which, Mr Sharma without wasting any time passed immediate orders to denotify the three SEZs in Goa.

Mr Naik said that he expects the formal notifications to be issued soon. In a statement issued today from New Delhi Mr Naik said that he met Mr Sharma at 12-30 p.m. and, within five minutes he wrote the order on the very memorandum submitted by him and instructed the officials to issue the notification immediately.

Mr Naik reminded the minister that he had held the view that since a petition on the matter is pending before the Panaji Bench of the Bombay High Court, the Government does not propose to denotify the said SEZs, although there is was injunction issued against the Central Government restraing them from denotifying.

Mr Naik informed the minister that the petition which was pending, is now disposed of and, the court has held that the allotment of land to the SEZs itself was illegal.

In reality now , the developers have no land with them. The denotification is now a formality, Mr Naik told the minister.

Mr Naik said that since he had informed the minister's office about the purpose of seeking minister's appointment, Mr Sharma was ready with the judgment downloaded by him from the website.

Mr Naik thanked Mr Sharma for his quick action, post the pronouncement of the judgement.