A momentous day!
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13/06/2008
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Herald (Panjim)
At long last, we have direct action from the government on the Special Economic Zones (SEZs) that neither the Goan people nor the Goa government want, but the Union Commerce Ministry seems to want to impose on the people of Goa. By cancelling in one stroke the land given to the SEZs for gross irregularities in its allotment, Chief Minister Digambar Kamat has gladdened the heart of every Goan. That the SEZs were introduced to the state through an unholy alliance of the SEZ developers, local politicians and the local bureaucracy was well known. Herald has reported many months ago that the SEZs were approved even before the government's SEZ policy was in place, exposing the fact that this was an