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Article

5 Jun 2007

Author:
Rajesh Chhabara, Ethical Corporation

India’s special economic zones - An ethics black hole

...new regulations will allow developers to buy land directly from farmers for special economic zones...Human rights groups are outraged by the large-scale displacements and loss of livelihoods that the SEZs will cause. ..More than 86,000 hectares of land will be required for the 237 SEZs approved so far. Most of this will have to be bought from farmers, displacing an estimated one million people...[refers to Nike, Brandix, Nokia, Infosy, Wipro, Satyam, HCL, Ranbaxy, Flextronics, Essar, Moser Baer, HP, Mahindra, Ansal, Unitech, Sahara, DLF, Reliance, Tata, Arcelor Mittal, Posco]