Media Release 

Panaji, Dec 2: MP Shantaram Naik on Thursday December 2 met commerce minister Anand Sharma and requested him to denotify the three notified SEZs of Goa immediately, upon which, Sharma without wasting any time passed immediate orders to denotify the three SEZs.

Naik stated that he expects the formal notifications to be issued soon.

In a statement issued from New Delhi Naik said that he met Sharma and as an immediate effect he wrote an order instructing officials to issue the notification immediately.

Naik reminded the minister that he had held the view that since a petition on the matter is pending before the Panaji Bench of the Bombay High Court, the government does not propose to denotify the said SEZs, although there was injunction issued against the Central Government restraing them from denotifying.

Naik informed the minister that the petition which was pending, is now disposed of and, the court has held that the allotment of land  to the SEZs  itself was illegal. In reality now , the developers have no land with them. The denotification is now a formality, Naik told the minister.