Notified SEZs at Siruseri near Chennai and at Indore in Madhya Pradesh
Hexaware's 11-hectare information technology Special Economic Zone (SEZ) at Siruseri near Chennai, has been notified. Another SEZ for Medicaps covering an area of 12.25 hectares at Indore in Madhya Pradesh has also been notified. This takes the number of notified SEZs to a total of 22. It may be recalled here, that the Board of Approval has given its stamp of clearance to 150 applications, already.
The Board of Approval has received 225 fresh applications, although there has been an ease in the rush of applications since the removal of the cap on SEZs in the country. The Board will meet in September to consider the fresh applications.
Among the 22 notified SEZs, 12 are in the IT and ITES sectors, with others in fields as diverse as pharmaceuticals, footwear, gems and jewellery. Some of the notified SEZs are Reliance's petroleum and petrochemical SEZ and Adani's multi-product SEZ in Gujarat, Wipro's three SEZs in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, and Biocon's biotech zone also in Karnataka.
By INRnews Correspondent
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