India Growing, Shining, Rising! All this indeed makes me happy and feel proud about my country. IT and ITES is the choicest sector for the private equity investments, retail industry booming, Indian companies acquiring foreign firms, young entrepreneurs venturing into small & medium sized enterprises, and so on are proof of India’s accelerated growth path. However, amongst all these goodies there was something that was bitter, something that was hitting back very hard – the SEZ chaos and its effects on rural India. Yes, the rural India – significant part of our country which is often neglected on the roadmap to growth or remembered only during union budgets or at time of calamities. I agree and accept that I also thought of rural India (or the farmlands) when I was going through all the SEZ chaos that has caught up the entire country. It is saddening to know about the farmers committing suicide to protest against the acquisition of agricultural land to convert it into SEZ and gover
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