SEZ Policy

SEZ policy which was supposed to be a single stop solution for all the ills of the exporters has hit a road block much to the chagrin of some in the government. The issue is the land which in most of cases is snatched from small farmers and handed over to the industrialists & corporates. Our rural folk have skill sets which support agriculture and it is naive to expect that reclassification of Land use which effectively rules out the repossession of the land by the current owners for generations will be smooth. Further the literacy level and the language barriers prohibit these farmers to move on to another location in our own country with out major setback. Policy makers and corporates should be humane enough to understand these issues and take appropriate action.

For instance in the case of Reliance, one of the suggestions is to take these farmers on contract basis and provide them with leased land and need based funds to engage in farming. Such farm output could be sold through their own proposed retail network. Such forward thinking and inclusive development models should be deployed by the corporate leaders like Reliance.