Goa CM heads for Delhi for talks to resolve SEZ row

Goa Chief Minister Digamber Kamat on Thursday left for New Delhi to hold talks with the Congress leadership to seek help to end the special economic zone (SEZ) row in the state.

A day after the Goa government announced scrapping of all the 15 SEZ projects in the state, including three already notified, the Centre questioned the decision.

The Union Commerce Ministry on Wednesday refused to denotify the three SEZs, raising prospects of fresh trouble in the coastal state where anti-SEZ groups had been vehemently protesting against setting up of the trade zones.

The protesters, including a section of the ruling Congress and some other political parties, had put their agitation on hold after the state government's decision.

Sources close to Chief Minister's office said that Kamat, along with MP Shantaram Naik, would meet the Congress leaders in Delhi to seek their intervention to resolve the sensitive matter.

"We will meet party leaders first as Union Commerce Minister Kamal Nath is not in Delhi," Naik said over phone from the national capital.

Naik, who was critical of the Centre's decision not to denotify SEZs, said the statement by Union Commerce Secretary "absurd, fallacious and illogical".

Courtesy:timesofindia.com
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