HYDERABAD: The Union government has de-notified 368.8 hectares of land in FAB City’s Special Economic Zone (SEZ) at Raviryala village in Maheshwaram mandal of Rangareddy district.
In order to set up a sector specific SEZ for manufacturing and developing semiconductor facilities along with a Free Trade and Warehousing Zone, the central government had approved FAB city in 2007.
The Centre notified 120.06 hectares on January 15, 2007, 233.23 hectares on December 13, 2007 and 15.57 hectares on July 10, 2009 in erstwhile Andhra Pradesh, totalling 434.86 hectares.
Due to reasons not spelt out, the FAB City proposed de-notification of 368.9 hectors from SEZ and the state government had given approval to it on February 8, 2022. Following this, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry has recently issued a gazette notification de-notifying SEZ land. After de-notifying 368.8 hectares from FAB City, SEZ is now limited to only 66.06 hectares.
Meanwhile, the central government also de-notified the entire area of 10.22 hectares in the Bio-technology SEZ at Genome Valley, proposed by the Telangana State Industrial Corporation Limited (TGIIC).
Centre denotifies Mindspace SEZ land
Similarly, the Union government has de-notified the entire area of Mindspace Business Parks Private Limited’s SEZ, which is meant for IT and IT enabled services at Pocharam village of Ghatkesar mandal.
Initially, the Centre notified 26.895 hectares for this SEZ, but as per the request of the state government, it de-notified 14.16 hectares on August 23, 2019 and 7.9 hectares on November 16, 2021. Recently, the Union government de-notified the remaining 4.82 hectares.
The central government also de-notified 4.37 hectares out of 5.77 hectares of Phoenix Spaces IT SEZ in Puppalaguda village in Rajendra Nagar mandal.
The central government stated that after de-notification of all these lands of SEZs, the de-notified parcels of land would be utilised for industrial purpose and creation of infrastructure which would sub-serve the objective of the SEZ as originally envisaged. Such land parcels after de-notification will conform to land use guidelines or master plans of the state government, it added.