Special Economic Zones to be strengthened, says Jaitley

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, while presenting the General Budget 2014-15 in Parliament today, announced that the government is committed to revive the Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and make them effective instruments of industrial production, economic growth, export promotion and employment generation.

The Finance Minister also stated that effective steps would be undertaken to operationalize SEZs to revive investors' interest to develop better infrastructure and to effectively and efficiently use the available unutilized land.