Reliance, Mahindras DLF form panel

SEZ FILES

Faced with large scale political and farmers' opposition, about 50 SEZ developers, including Reliance Industries and DLF, have formed their own panel under the aegis of Export Promotion Council for EoUs and SEZs.

Vice-President of Reliance Haryana SEZ Ltd Ajay Nijhawan has been named as the convenor of the panel, which will mainly champion the demand of the developers to remove the 5,000 hectare land cap on a Special Economic Zone.

"Putting a freeze of any kind halts the process of SEZ and economic development," Nijhawan said.

Nijhawan said his panel would also take up with the government the issue of land, which according to the April decision of the Group of Ministers, cannot be acquired compulsorily by any state government.