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Mangalore SEZ Ltd, the special
purpose vehicle that is
developing the special economic
zone in Mangalore in
Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka,
is in the process of acquiring the
remaining half of the land out of a total
of 4,000 acres, amidst protests from
local bodies including the Pejawar
Seer Vishwesha Tirtha. The 2,000
acres is required for likely development
of phase-II of the SEZ project.
"We are talking to the Seer and the
local bodies about the project. Mangalore
has more than 90 per cent literacy
and the proposed SEZ would cater to
the employment requirements of the
district to a large extent. The multiproduct
SEZ is a must for the state as
well as the country as it will help the
industrial sector, A.G. Pai, Executive
Director, MSEZL told Projectmonitor.
At present, about 1,800 acres is in
possession of MSEZL out of which
1,453 acres has been notified as a sector-
specific SEZ (petroleum and
petrochemicals). It is
located in the villages
of Permude, Bajpe and
Kalavar in Dakshina
Kannada.
Pai said, "For a multiproduct
SEZ, the
requirement of land is
about 5,000 acres,
which we had proposed
in 2005. But after
conducting a satellite
study through Indian
Resources Information Management
Technology Ltd, Hyderabad, in 2006,
we scaled down the land requirement
to 4,000 acres of which only 23 per cent
is cultivated land and 77 per cent is
non-cultivated land."
The Mangalore SEZ will have road
connectivity to provide access to
industries under the target zones within
the SEZ, a processing zone with two
categories of industries, petroleum
and petrochemicals (presently), and
general purpose multi-product industries
(subsequently). The non-processing
area of the SEZ will consist of various
infrastructure and amenities
including housing, offices, educational
and health facilities.
MSEZ will be connected to New
Mangalore Port by a dedicated
pipeline-cum-road corridor running
over 12 km with pipeline racks. The
company is in the process of arranging
a total of 45 million gallons per day of
uninterrupted water supply to the SEZ
units while adequate power is being
arranged through a mix of various
sources like captive power plants of
individual units and drawing power
from the grid through dedicated
express feeder lines (220kV).
The stakeholders in Mangalore SEZ
are Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
Ltd (26 per cent), Karnataka Industrial
Area Development Board (23 per cent),
Infrastructure Leasing and Financial
Services (49 per cent) and
Kanara Chamber of Commerce and
Industry (2 per cent).
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