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Evaluate the policy of SEZ (special economic zones) and the nature of social response to it.

  • UPSC 2010
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

The Special Economic Zones Act, 2005 offered a bargain: a duty-free enclave treated as foreign territory for trade, with fiscal concessions and single-window clearance, in exchange for exports, investment and jobs. Two decades on it has delivered exports but failed as employment and land-use policy — and the resistance it provoked altered how India acquires…

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  • The policy at its strongest
  • The critique
  • The nature of the social response
  • Conclusion

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