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Requirements for establishment of a Special Economic Zone

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..... rritory, the area shall be twenty-five hectares or more. (b) There shall be no minimum land area requirement for setting up a Special Economic Zone for Information Technology or Information Technology enabled Services, Biotech or Health (other than hospital) service, but a minimum built up processing area requirement shall be applicable, based on the category of cities, as specified in the following Table, namely: TABLE Sl. No. Categories of cities as per Annexure IV A Minimum Built-up area requirement (proposed) (1) (2) (3) 1. Category A 50,000 sq.mts. 2. Category B 25,000 sq. mts. 3. Category C 15,000 sq. mts. (c) The minimum processing area in any Special Economic Zone cannot be less than fifty per cent. of the total area of the Special Economic Zone. (d) All existing notified Special Economic Zone shall be deemed to be a multi-sector Special Economic Zone. Explanation .....

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..... ) allow generation, transmission and distribution of power within a Special Economic Zone] ; (d) providing water, electricity and such other services, as may be required by the developer be provided or caused to be provided; (e) Delegation of power to the Development Commissioner under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (No. 14 of 1947) and other related Acts in relation to the Unit; (f) Delegation of power to the Development Commissioner under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (No. 14 of 1947) in relation to the workmen employed by the developer. (g) Declaration of the Special Economic Zone as a Public Utility Service under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (No.14 of 1947); (h) Providing single point clearance system to the Developer and unit under the State Acts and rules; (6) The State Government shall, while recommending a proposal for setting up of Special Economic Zone to the Board indicate whether the proposed area falls under reserved or ecologically fragile area as may be specified by the concerned authority; 8 [(7) The Developer or Co-developer shall have to construct the minimum built up area specified in this rule within a period of ten years from .....

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..... energy, including solar energy equipments/cell, or gem and jewellery sectors, the area shall be ten hectares or more with a minimum built up area as under: (i) forty thousand square meters in case of a Special Economic Zone proposed to be set up exclusively for bio-technology and non-conventional energy sectors, including solar energy equipments/cells but excluding a Special Economic Zone set up for non-conventional energy production and manufactur ing; (ii) fifty thousand square meters in case of a Special Economic Zone proposed to be set up exclusively for the gems and jew ellery sector. Provided also that in case a Special Economic Zone for a specific sector is proposed to be set up in Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Manipur, Tripura, Himachal Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Sikkim, Jammu and Kashmir, Goa or in a Union territory, the area shall be fifty hectares or more for the Special Economic Zones not covered under the first and second proviso: Provided also that at least fifty per cent. of the area shall be earmarked for developing processing area; 7. Substituted vide Notification no. G.S.R.501(E), dated 14-6-2010 8. Inserted vide Noti .....

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..... rement for an additional sector in a Special Economic Zone for a specific sector or for one or more services as per first proviso will be twenty five hectares when the Special Economic Zone is proposed to be set up in Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Manipur, Tripura, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Jammu and Kashmir, Goa or in a Union territory. (ii) There shall be no minimum area requirement for setting up a Special Economic Zone for Information Technology or Information Technology Enabled Services, 11 [ Bio-technology and Health Sector (excluding hospitals), ] but a minimum built up processing area requirement shall be applicable, based on the category of cities, as follows:- Table Category of cities as per Annexure IVA Minimum built up area requirement Category `A' 1,00,000 sq mts Category `B' 50,000 sq mts Category `C' 25,000 sq mts Provided that for a Special Economic Zone proposed to be set up exclusively for electronics hardware and software (including .....

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..... d for developing processing area.] 9 [Provided also that in respect of Special Economic Zones located in B1 category cities as per classification indicated in Annexure-IV, the minimum built up area shall be 50% of area specific above and in respect of Special Economic Zones located in B2 category cities as indicated in Annex IV, the minimum built up area shall be 25% of the area specified above ] (c) Special Economic Zone for Free Trade and Warehousing shall have an area of forty hectares or more with a built up area of not less than one lakh square meters: Provided that in a stand alone Free Trade and Warehousing Zone at least fifty per cent of the area shall be earmarked for developing processing area: Provided further that a Free Trade and Warehousing Zone may also be set up as part of a Special Economic Zone for multi-product; Provided also that in a Special Economic Zone 10 [having area less than one thousand hectares], Free Trade and Warehousing Zone may be permitted with no minimum area requirement but subject to the condition that the maximum area of such Free Trade and Warehousing Zone shall not exceed twenty per cent. of the processing area. .....

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