Hyderabad: The Telangana government wants to take over lands of the remaining SEZs in the second phase. It has written to the Centre seeking cancellation of SEZs.
The SEZs in the cancellation list include: Pharma SEZ allotted to Deccan Infrastructure and Land Holdings Ltd (DIL) at Chinakondur in Nalgonda district (247 acres); Textile SEZ (DIL), Amangal, Mahbubnagar (101 acres); Biotech SEZ (DIL), Desarlapalli village, Medak (50 acres); Footwear SEZ (DIL), Mamidipally, RR district (100 acres); Footwear SEZ (DIL), Amangal, Mahbubnagar (101 acres); Gems and Jewellery SEZ (DIL), Amangal, Mahbubnagar (40 acres);
Light Engineering SEZ (DIL), Bhongir, Nalgonda (250 acres); IT/ITeS SEZ (DIL), Kukatpally, R.R. district (25 acres), IT/ITeS SEZ (DIL), Shamshabad, RR (25 acres); IT/ITES SEZ (DIL), Bachupally, R.R. (50 acres); IT/ITeS SEZ (DIL), Koheda, R.R. (99 acres); IT/ITES SEZ (AP Markfed), Karimnagar (25 acres).
“There is huge demand for land around Hyderabad to set up industries and other units after the TS government launched the single window online approval system TS-iPASS. But a vast amount of land is held by SEZs, which remain non-functional and unused.
We want to cancel these SEZs, take back the land and allot to new industries and units,” said Jupally Krishna Rao, industry minister. Besides SEZs, the government has also sought the Centre to denotify some portion of land in the existing SEZs, which are unutilised in Fab City, Genome Valley and Biotech SEZ.
