SEZs won't leave farmers high and dry

Abhay Vaidya / TNN / Jul 7, 2006, 02:53 IST

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State govt has initiated moves to work out a fresh compensation-rehabilitation package for farmers whose land will be needed for SEZs.

PUNE: The state government has initiated moves to work out a fresh compensation-rehabilitation package for farmers whose land will be needed for special economic zones (SEZs).
The approach is being contemplated on a pilot basis for the Bharat Forge SEZ project at Khed in Pune district. It is expected to be different from the previous policy, which focused largely on cash compensation.
Besides cash compensation, the new package will look at various options such as long-term stakes in the SEZ, land equity, training and capacity building and absorption of the local community in the project.
The Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) has begun talks with the research and documentation centre of the Pune-based Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration (Yashada) with the idea of entrusting this task to them.
"We are thinking on these lines and preliminary talks are on with Yashada," MIDC's regional officer, Anil Kawade, told TOI. "The main objective was to work out a fair deal for farmers whose land will be acquired by the MIDC."
While Yashada is an autonomous body under the state government that undertakes administrative training and functions as an institute for rural development, the research and documentation centre headed by deputy director-general (research) K.S. Nair was appointed by the Narmada Control Authority as a monitoring and evaluation agency for the Maharashtra government's rehab work of Narmada dam project-affected families.

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