The Uttar Pradesh government has objected to a Special Economic Zone of the New Okhla Industrial Development Authority (Noida) in which the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group is a strategic partner. At its second meeting held in Lucknow on Thursday, the Mayawati-led Uttar Pradesh Cabinet decided to refer the 1,200-acre SEZ proposal to New Delhi as it violated the contiguity norms laid down by it. Uttar Pradesh Cabinet Secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh said that a road passed through the SEZ land bifurcating it into two. Singh said this was a violation of the Centre’s guidelines for SEZs and the state government had decided to apprise the commerce ministry of the anomaly. The SEZ, he added, would therefore have to be relocated to a contiguous plot of land.
