New Delhi:The Center cleared twenty-three new special economic zones (SEZs), including seventeen projects for setting up information technology and IT-enabled services (ITeS) zones, besides giving in-principal approval to six proposals.
The Board of Approval of the Special Economic Zones, headed by Union Commerce Secretary G. K. Pillai, considered a total of thirty-four SEZ proposals, including three proposals for conversion of in-principle approvals into formal approvals.
It cleared four IT and ITeS Special Economic Zones in Kerala that would be set up by the Kerala State Information Technology Infrastructure Ltd., while two IT, ITeS and electronic hardware SEZs of Godrej Real Estate Private Ltd. and S2tech.com Private Ltd. were approved in Andhra Pradesh.