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    Lovely professional University

    TERM PAPER

    OF

    BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

    ON THE TOPIC OF

    A REPORT ON SEZ: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

    OF INDIA AND CHINA

    Submitted to Submitted byMR. PRINCE VOHRA ASHUTOSH RAWAT

    Roll no: - B44

    Registration no: - 11003311

    Section: - R1003

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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT

    It has been a great challenge but a plenty of learning and opportunities to gain hugeknowledge on the way preparing this term paper. I would not succeed without myteacherMr. PRINCE VOHRA, who seemed to be with me always; and prepared to giveme feedback and guidelines whenever I needed it.

    Thank YouSir!

    I hope you will find my working as interesting and knowledge earning. And it

    will be useful for others wanting to learn about,A Report on SEZ: A Comparative

    Study of India and china.

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    INTRODUCTION

    A Special Economic Zone, in short is a geographically bound zone where the economic zone

    laws in matters related to export and import are more broadminded and liberal when compared to

    the rest of the country. SEZs are projected as duty free areas of purpose of trade, operations ,

    duty , and tariffs.SEZ units are self-contained and integrated having their own infrastructure and

    Support services

    Special Economic Zone means an area that has been specified as an enclave that is duty free and

    is treated as a foreign territory for various purposes such as tariffs, trade operations, and duties.

    A Special Economic Zone (SEZ) has economic laws that are more liberal than a country's typical

    economic laws. The category 'SEZ' covers a broad range of specific zone SEZ includes Free

    Trade Zones (FTZ), Export Processing Zones (EPZ), Free Zones (FZ), Industrial Estates (IE),

    Free Ports, Urban Enterprise Zones and others Within SEZs, a unit may be set up for the

    manufacture of goods and others activities including processing and, assembling ,trading

    ,repairing , reconditioning , making of gold , platinum jewellery and so on .as per law , SEZ

    units are deemed to be outside the customs territory of India .goods and services coming in to

    SEZs for the domestic tariff area(DTA) are treated as export from India ,and goods and services

    rendered from the SEZs to the DTA are treated as import into in India

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    SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE IN INDIA AND CHINA:

    INDIA was one of the first in Asia to recognize the effectiveness of the Export Processing

    Zone(EPZ) model in promoting exports, with Asias first EPZ set up in Kandla in 1965.With a

    view to overcome the shortcomings experienced on account of the multiplicity of controls

    andclearances; absence of world-class infrastructure, andan unstable fiscal regime and with a

    viewto attract larger foreign investments in India, the Special Economic Zones (SEZs) Policy

    wasannounced in April 2000.This policy intended to make SEZs an engine for economic growth

    supported by qualityinfrastructure complemented by an attractive fiscal package, both at the

    Centre and the Statelevel, with the minimum possible regulations. SEZs in India functioned from

    1.11.2000 to09.02.2006 under the provisions of the Foreign Trade Policy and fiscal incentives

    were madeeffective through the provisions of relevant statutes.To instill confidence in investorsand signal the Governments commitment to a stable SEZpolicy regime and with a view to

    impart stability to the SEZ regime thereby generating greatereconomic activity and employment

    through the establishment of SEZs, a comprehensive draftSEZ Bill prepared after extensive

    discussions with the stakeholders. A number of meetings wereheld in various parts of the country

    both by the Minister for Commerce and Industry as well asIn India, it is the fiscal sops being

    offered to developers and units which are the primary drivingforce. The Chinese government

    started building SEZs way back in 1979. The idea behind theSEZs was to experiment with liberal

    policies in certain ear-marked regions while insulating therest of the economy from their

    influence. The government identified huge tracts of land, near thecoastal region, and started

    building mega cities with all required infrastructure.Stringent labour laws applicable in Chinawere relaxed in the regions and foreign investors were wooed with sops and the promise of

    stability. Though India had a head-start in the direction by building its first export processing

    zone in 1969 with certain minimum infrastructure and fiscal sops (seven more followed later), it

    could not muster enough political will to build full-fledged SEZs with foreign territory status in

    the matters of international trade till the turn of the century.In 00, former trade minister late

    Murasoli Maran announced that India should try to replicate theCHINAS success story in SEZs

    and announced an SEZ policy. However, when five years later theSEZ Act was passed by

    Parliament and rules were framed, what India had was a policy verydifferent from Chinas.As

    opposed to five mega SEZs built by the Chinese government (the largest being Shenzhenbuilt

    over 49,500 hectares), India opened its doors to private players and allowed sector-specificSEZs

    to develop on just 10 hectares of land. As a result, India has as many as 28 operationalSEZs with

    about 200 more having received approvals. The economies of scale, which seems tohave worked

    so well in China by reducing production costs, may not have the same effect inIndian SEZs.

    In China, the government chose the location for SEZs with a lot of thought with all five

    locatednear the coastal region. This makes it easier for SEZ units to export their products and

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    importinputs. In India, SEZs are being built all over the country, wherever land can be acquired

    bydevelopers. This has also led to allegations of land-grabbing and conversion of

    productiveagricultural land by developers. This had led the Centre to make it mandatory that all

    proposalsshould have a certificate from the state government notifying that the land being used is

    non-agricultural for at least 90%.Flexibility in labour laws, which played an important role in

    attracting foreign investors, isabsent in Indian SEZs. This is one of the prices India is having to

    pay for the advantages of afederal democratic government.India has, however, tried to make up

    for all the disadvantages by offering attractive fiscal sops.Tax holidays for SEZs in India are

    longer and steeper than those given by China. This had givenrise to some dissent from thefinance

    ministry which had complained that the fiscal loss would beimmense.

    COMPARISION OF INDIAS SEZs Vs CHINAS SEZs

    SEZ has been one of the key reasons for the huge FDI that China has managed to attract so far.

    The concept of SEZ is fundamental model of China FDI model, where it developed SEZ on a

    focused manner. This is to beremembered that, this did not happen overnight and it has taken 25

    years for China to become what it is today. The incentives offered in Indian SEZs are in no less

    than those in China. From duty-free imports and tax holidays to freedom from cumbersome

    Custom procedures, the SEZs' facilities match those in China .Hence, theoretically at least,

    India's SEZs should be no less attractive to foreign investors as the Chineseversions. But reality

    paints a different picture. Conceptually, EPZs and SEZs are different while the former is an

    industrial estate, the latter is an industrial township. The scopes of SEZs are much wider and

    their linkages with the domestic economy stronger. Hence, merely switching from EPZs to SEZs,

    without undertaking the required structural changes, do not guarantee success. This is to be

    remembered that, Chinas resounding success with the SEZ model of economic development, did

    not happen overnight and it has taken 25 years for China to become what it is today. There are

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    five SEZs in China. Of these, four Shenzhen, Xiamen, Shantou and Zhuhai were founded

    20years back and the fifth, Hainan, was set up in 1988.Following are some of the reasons of

    China success with SEZ .Size: Each SEZ is well over 1,000 hectares, the minimum

    recommended area. In India, the EPZs converted into SEZs are not even a third of this. Strong

    domestic market: In China, about 50 per cent of SEZ sales are to the domestic market. Though

    India has a large domestic market, it has failed to project this to lure SEZ investors. The reason:

    Policy impediments to sales in the domestic market. While in China the thrust of SEZs has been

    to attract foreign investments and modern technology, in India the emphasis has been on exports

    .In 2001, the share of the five SEZs in the country's total exports was 10.4 per cent. In contrast,

    the of Indian SEZs in 2001-02 was a little over 4 per cent of the total exports Decentralisation

    of power: In China. Provincial and local authorities were made partners and stakeholders, by

    delegating to them powers to approve foreign investment. The SEZ authorities in China can

    approve foreign investment proposals up to $30 million. In India, only State governments are

    allowed to set up SEZs and the powers for foreign investment approvals are vested with the

    Development Commissioners, who are the representatives of the Central Government .FlexibleLabour Laws: The hire-and-fire policy in SEZs has been one of the biggest attractions for foreign

    investors in China. The new labour law consists of 107 articles, but none of these is more than

    one paragraph.

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    Main objectives of SEZ:

    The objective behind an SEZ is to enhance foreign investment, increase exports, create jobs and

    Promote regional development. To put in the governments own words, the main objectives of

    The SEZ s Are:

    . Generation of additional economic activity;

    . Promotion of exports of goods and services;

    . Promotion of investment from domestic and foreign sources;

    . Creation of employment opportunities;

    . Development of infrastructure

    .Facilities Simplified procedures for development, operation, and , and maintenance of SEZs,

    and also FOR Setting up units and conducting business

    .Single window clearance for setting up an SEZ and a unit of SEZ

    .Easy and simplified compliance procedures and documentation with stress and self certification

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    OBJECTIVES OF STUDY

    1. To know about how Special Economic Zone are effective for countrys Economic

    Development. .

    2. To know about the flow of Foreign Direct Investment and Exports and Imports of the country

    3.To know the effect of SEZ on the trade of a country

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    REVIEW OF LITERATURE

    According to Saeed khan 31 April 2008: Export Processing Zones (EPZs) are an international

    phenomenon influencing increasing share of trade flows and employing a growing number of

    workers. From 176 zones across 47 countries in 1986; the number had increased to over 3,000

    across 116 countries by 2003 India also favours this so in the year 2000, the government

    replaced the old EPZ regime by a new scheme of "Special Economic Zones" (SEZs) with several

    lucrative incentives/benefits that were not available in the earlier scheme. And in 2005, it enacted

    the Act and the SEZ Rules were notified in February 2006. The policy was expected to give a big

    push to exports, employment and investment in SEZs. The Ministry of Commerce and Industry

    claims that these zones will attract investment of about Rs 1, 00,000 crore including FDI of Rs

    25,000 crore and create additional 5, 00,000 direct jobs, by December 2007. The promotion of

    SEZs is an attempt to deal with infrastructural deficiencies, procedural complexities,

    bureaucratic hassles and barriers raised by monetary, trade, fiscal, taxation, tariff and labour

    policies. These structural bottlenecks affect the investment climate adversely by increasing

    production and transaction costs. Since country-wide development of infrastructure is expensive

    and implementation of structural reforms would require time, due to given socio-economic and

    political institutions, the establishment of SEZ is seen as an important strategic tool for

    expediting the process of industrialization..

    According to Ranjit singh and Arup Barman, September 24 2009 and September 25 2010:

    A Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is a geographical region that has economic laws that are more

    liberal than a country's typical economic laws. With a view to overcome the shortcomings

    experienced on account of the multiplicity of controls and clearances; absence of world-class

    infrastructure, and an unstable fiscal regime and with a view to attract larger foreign investments

    in India, the Government of India announced the Special Economic Zones (SEZs) Policy. The

    whole idea behind the setting up of SEZ was to increase the exports and hence accelerate the

    economic development of the country. This policy intended to make SEZs an engine for

    economic growth supported by quality infrastructure complemented by an attractive fiscal

    package. This paper gives a birds eye view about the SEZ, objectives and rules of SEZ,incentives available in SEZs, benefits from SEZ, impact of SEZ in India, the arguments against

    the SEZ, the politics behind SEZ and finally the paper ended up with recommendations for the

    sustainability of the SEZs in the interest of the farmers and industries both. The authors conclude

    that both sector should be protected and also opined that there is a need for suitable change in the

    policy.

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    According to Ms.S.Chatterjee, January 11, 2008: SEZs have occupied a center stage in the

    national consciousness for the past few months due to the events unfolding in Singur and

    subsequently the occurrences in Nandigram (a proposed SEZ). Many economies including India

    have used the concept of SEZ in one or the other form to promote exports and boost economic

    growth. The Indian experiment began in 1965, complemented by new policies regarding exports,

    FDI etc to attract investments and boost exports. Since the implementation of these reforms

    began there has been a spate of criticisms from a number of quarters on different aspects of the

    SEZ policy. Some of the economic issues raised about the SEZ policy have been improper usage

    of arable land, food security, loss of low skilled jobs in agriculture, forestry, and small scale

    industries. Despite the opposition the government is determined to go ahead with rapid creation

    of new SEZs. At the same time the government also claims to follow a policy of economic

    growth that enhances both equity and efficiency.

    According to Anirudh Burnan, December 15, 2006: A Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is a

    geographical region that has economic laws that are more liberal than a country's typical

    economic laws. In India, eight previously existing Export Processing Zones have been converted

    into SEZs. The policy provides for setting up of SEZ's in the public, private, joint sector or by

    State Governments. It was also envisaged that some of the existing Export Processing Zones

    would be converted into Special Economic Zones. Over the past few years, the policy of

    promoting zones has found favors with the government of India. In 2005, it enacted the SEZ Act

    and the SEZ Rules were notified in February 2006. The policy is expected to give a big push to

    exports, employment and investment in SEZs. The SEZ Act gives a wide area of discretion to the

    State and Central Governments to regulate an SEZ as they see fit.

    According to Charles D. Booth and Xianchu zhang January 07, 2010: In 1986, the Peoples

    Republic of China enacted its first national bankruptcy law, the Law of the Peoples Republic of

    China on Enterprise Bankruptcy, as part of an emerging legal framework for the countrys

    transition from a planned economy to a market economy. At the time of its enactment the

    bankruptcy law was considered a significant political and economic breakthrough that was

    necessary to apply some market pressure on Chinas State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) to force

    them to become more efficient. However, the rapid development of economic reforms in China

    soon exposed serious limitations in the bankruptcy law: This article discusses the bankruptcy law

    and practice in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, which offers an interesting and

    informative comparison and perhaps some lessons for China in reforming its national bankruptcy

    law.

    According to Shalini S .Dagar additional reporting by Amit Mukharjee, E.Kumar Sharma,

    Nitya Varadarajan, Krishna Gopalan. Business today, New Delhi .May 6 2007: Circa 2015:

    John Doe Jr., the young new CEO at one of the world's largest auto-parts companies, is on a

    guided tour of Reliance's Maha Mumbai Special Economic Zone (SEZ). Doe wants to invest

    more than a billion dollars in a new factory, and he's weighing his options, which include India

    and China His father, John Doe Sr., who last visited India in 2008, has warned him against

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    up in Kandla way back in 1965. The policy initiative of April 2000 for setting up Special

    Economic Zones aimed at providing a globally competitive and contented environment for

    exports to earn foreign exchange. Many economies including India have used the concept of SEZ

    in one or the other form to promote exports and boost economic growth, which enhances both

    equity and efficiency which will help the country create millions of jobs, attract large-scale

    foreign direct investment and boost its export income. This article/paper is aimed to cover the

    functions, necessitate and development of SEZs in India and the performance of Indian SEZs.

    The overwhelming response to the SEZ scheme is evident from the flow of investment, creation

    of additional employment, export performance and attracted FDI in the country. Hence, this

    paper concludes that the SEZs are not only factual development engines for the economic

    development of the country and also a new dawn of the modern economy.

    According to Andrew j .Hughes and Christian R. Richter. June 01, 2009: This paper tests

    the hypothesis that the links and dependency relationships between China and her special regions

    have changed over the past 20 years with the industrialization of China, and the emergence of

    Taiwan as a source of investment and sophisticated manufactures, and Hong Kong as financial

    centre and supplier of services. Has this changed the size and direction of spillovers in the

    region, and has it curtailed or eliminated American economic leadership? We use time-varying

    spectral methods to decompose the links between six advanced Asian economies and the US. We

    find: (a) the links with the US have been weakening, while those within a bloc based on China

    have strengthened; (b) that this is not new it has been happening since the 1980s, but has now

    been reversed by the surge in trade; (c) that Taiwan is more integrated with, and dependent on,

    the Chinese economy, while Hong Kong continues her separate development based on

    specialization and comparative advantage; (d) that the links with the US are rather complex, with

    the US able to shape the cycles elsewhere through her control of monetary conditions,

    According to Stephen Creskoff and Peter Walkenhorst April 1, 2009: Many developing

    countries operate geographically delineated economic areas in the form of export processing

    zones, special industrial zones, or free trade zones. This paper provides an overview of the

    application of World Trade Organization disciplines to incentive programs typically employed

    by developing countries in connection with such special economic zone programs. The analysis

    finds that the disciplines under the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures have

    the most immediate relevance for middle-income World Trade Organization members that are

    not exempt for certain grandfathered programs, but will also concern other developing countries

    in the future, as their exemption expires or their per-capita income passes a threshold ofUS$1,000. Incentives related to special economic zones can be broadly grouped into three

    categories:

    According to Vasant Sivaraman and Charulatha j, Vishnu Pillai. 2004: The SEEZEE

    Ceramics Ltd (SEZ) case, set in India, provides a framework for financial analysis and for

    exploring a link between economic profits and shareholder value. The student is required to

    consider a critical decision for SEZ; the decision to invest and grow as opposed to focusing on

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    consolidation of the existing business operations. Associated with this key decision are related

    issues pertaining to the financial position of SEZ. The accounting statements point to growing

    earnings for the company; however when seen in the perspective of returns expected by the

    market, the picture is not bright for SEZ - this is brought out by looking at the economic profits

    of SEZ. From being a preferred stock of analysts, SEZ moved quite quickly to large drops in

    market value.

    According to Business line, Chennai: Jun 21, 2010: The Land Question But these are not the

    real deterrents to investors in for the long haul, investors who look beyond the depressing

    horizon to a revving business cycle. The real reasons for the backtracking lie in their perception

    of an ambivalent policy regime regarding tax concessions, and more ominously, the growing

    resistance of the original landowners to the zones. The record of land acquisition is not a

    uniformly dismal one to be sure; there are successful SEZs dotted across the country, though

    many of them are actually the old export processing zones in SEZ form. But high-profile

    opposition in the east and in Maharashtra to the acquisition of farmlands by industrialists has

    robbed the SEZ of its flavor .What is new in this opposition anyway? The history of public utility

    and power projects and large dams is replete with instances of resistance - from mute reluctance

    to violent resistance. Yet, policymakers enamored of Chinas phenomenal growth into a world

    economic powerhouse found SEZs to be the linchpin to that success, and assumed it was easily

    replicable. Both timing and circumstance, however, had changed. In 2005, when the SEZ Act

    came into effect, India was already on a roll, unlike China in 1978 when it had barely emerged

    from the shadows.

    According to Eric Bellman. Wall Street Journal, Nov 30, 2004: Indias second-largest

    software and outsourcing company, Infosys Technologies Ltd., is Mahindra City's first tenant. In

    the next few months, Infosys will open offices on its 129-acre campus, which is earmarked to

    become one of the world's biggest software-development centers. "Ultimately we plan to have

    25,000 people on our campus there," says Mohandas Pai, chief financial officer of Infosys in

    Bangalore. "There are some tax benefits to being in a zone, but to us it was the infrastructure that

    was most important." Harshad Daswani, business-development manager at Fountainhead Exports

    in Bombay, knows that only too well. He has truckloads of towels stuck at Bombay's port. He

    says he can get thread from Japan delivered to his company's factory in China in three days,

    while it takes his drivers eight days to move linen from his factory in the northwestern state of

    Gujarat to a ship in Bombay. Mr. Daswani says he doesn't know what to tell his customers,

    which include U.S. retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. "Bombay docks are a nightmare," he says."But if you try to give your customers these excuses they just don't buy from you -- they go to

    China. Mr. Daswani figures Fountainhead and other exporters in India could cut costs by 20%

    and boost sales by 30% a year if India had better roads, ports and airports. Privately run SEZs

    could help.

    According to Businessline, Chennai: May 7. 2003: Special Economic Zones (SEZs), first

    proposed in the Exim Policy 2000-01 by the erstwhile Commerce Minister, Mr. Murasoli Maran,

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    are now a reality. With Export Processing Zones (EPZs) failing to help achieve the export

    targets, sights are on SEZs to deliver the goods. Eight SEZs are already operational - seven EPZs

    were converted for this purpose - and another nine have been approved and are to be located

    strategically .There are eight distinguishing features which have contributed to the success of

    SEZs in China: Unique location, large size, investment friendly attitudes towards non-resident

    Chinese, attractive incentive packages, liberal Custom procedures, flexible labour laws, a strong

    domestic market and decentralization of power in favors of provinces and local authorities for

    administering the zones

    According to Business line, Chennai: October 4. 2006: The China Experience the Special

    Economic Zone is about exports and forex earnings. In China, they provide, on an exclusive

    basis, goods for the developed markets with the combination of cheap contractual labour and

    world-class facilities funded by foreign investment. The philosophy behind the SEZ, the first of

    which came up in Guangdong Province on China's south-east coast near Shenzhen in 1980, was

    to sacrifice equity for growth. The hugely successful Shenzhen SEZ was replicated over the next

    decade because SEZs turned the country into the world's largest factory The SEZ Act of 2000

    was the work of Murasoli Maran, the then Commerce Minister who, inspired by Guangdong

    SEZs, made the concept a central part of the 2000 Exim Policy. The SEZ Act of 2005 was the

    result of various efforts at honing the concept to suit local needs. But over the same period, a

    combination of policy and economic revival made the SEZ irrelevant the earlier EPZs were self-

    explanatory; the word "processing" bound export and zone together to a tight commitment.

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    METHDOLOGY

    The methodology used was secondary research. Data and findings from the research papers and

    articles of other people was selected and reviewed. Brief review of all the articles and papers

    studied has been given in the Review of Literature. These all articles were studied deeply to

    gather maximum knowledge of the Report on SEZs in India and China. Though no research has

    been done on the comparative Analysis of India and China but this paper collected data from the

    news articles available from different sources

    .

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    FINDINGS

    State Wise Disparity in SEZ Approvals

    Exhibit 2 illustrates the state wise distribution of the number of In-principle approvals, Formalapprovals and Notified SEZs as on 13.05.09 and clearly illustrates the disparity in the same.

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    Comparisons of notified SEZ Ranking and GSDP CAGR Ranking

    Issue China India

    Size Typically in hundreds of hectares. Even 10 hectares will

    Location located only on coasts. Anywhere. No restric

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    Labour laws Relaxed Flexibility is totally ab

    Policy regime Experimentation of liberal policies in the

    specified areas

    Based on fiscal sops

    Investors Basically foreigners who are wooed with

    sops and promise of stability in policy.

    Basically locals. Not forei

    Commencement In 1979 In 1969 with the export p

    concept,but failed

    Number Only six: Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Shantou,

    Xiamen, Hainan and Pudong

    So far 28 operational. Abo

    approvals

    Tax holidays Present Longer and steeper than i

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    CHINAs SEZ

    Shenzhen

    Xiamen

    Shantou

    Zhuhai

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    CONCLUSION

    The SEZs could drastically improve the economic activity in the country, make the countrys

    export competitive and globally noticeable, be net foreign exchange earner and provide immense

    employment opportunity. But this should not be done at the cost of bringing down the

    agricultural activities, Land grabbing and real estate mafia should be properly regulated so that

    the common man is not the net sufferer to get the net foreign exchange earner up and running. As

    compared to china where majority of the SEZs were setup by the government, similar should be

    adopted in India, if not fully it should be a public-private partnership and regulatory bodies

    should be properly managed to weed out fallacies. To be economically viable SEZs should be

    approved over a particular land area (greater than 1000 acres) for rapid economic growth in the

    area and for it to be profitable and self sustainable. Relaxed Tax norms, Labor laws and DTAregulations will surely attract foreign investment and major industries to setup industries in the

    SEZs making it profitable and meeting its The modern day Special Economic Zone came in to

    existence because the economic reforms incorporated in the early 1990s did not resulted in the.

    Overall growth of the Indian economy.

    On the track of Chinas growth because of SEZ, The Indian government has considered its as a

    dream project to promote export, generate employment, and attract huge investment. SEZs

    continue to make waves .designed to promote manufacturing ,enhance export ,and entice foreign

    capital SEZs have proved a great success to china the pioneer of the concept as also Poland

    and Philippines .but in India , they have stirred up a hornets nest .the policy has been on a rollercoaster , especially post Nandi gram And Singur chapters , with fears raised by the people that

    the SEZ may well be a route to grab land .The key element for the success of SEZs are political

    will, better infrastructure , zero bureaucratic hassles , relaxed labour regulations , better fiscal

    incentives , and domestic and international linkages . Do all these parameters hold good in India

    in the question. SEZs in India have flourished due to the efforts that have been taken by the

    government of India .and therefore , in future too , if the Indian government makes such policies

    with regard to SEZs that the policies will increase the number of SEZs , which in turn makes us

    assume that they may bring growth and prosperity for the country

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