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Controversy: Arable Land And The Hot Potato
BUSINESS ETHICS: REFLECTION PAPER 1
HELP THE RICH, HURT THE POOR
The controversy regarding the SEZs in India has turned the issue into what is commonly known as a “hot potato”. The heated debate today is whether these SEZs are good for India or a hotbed for disaster that is going to spell long term doom for the nation. Like many things that go wrong in a nation like India, the SEZs too failed in the implementation phase. Arable land has been used to set up industries, farmers have been displaced and over a span of 40 years haven’t received their “attractive” compensation packages, nor have these industries provided employment to the displaced people, land has been bought and given by the government at throw away prices, there has been no
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