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Ahead... Slow Zone

Few may acknowledge it, but the SEZ story is coming undone in Punjab and Haryana

Big Boys On Hold

Reliance Haryana SEZ

12,500 acres each at Gurgaon and Jhajjar

  • Cost: Rs 40,000 cr
  • Potential jobs: 4 lakh
  • Status: 9,500 acres acquired; further acquisition stopped since Sept 2008
DLF and HSIDC

12,500-acre SEZ in Gurgaon

  • Cost: Rs 26,000 crore
  • Potential jobs: 7 lakh
  • Status: Rajiv Singh’s DLF writes to Haryana government in Dec 2008,wants to withdraw
DLF

Three SEZs in Ambala (3,000 acres, with HSIDC), Amritsar (440 acres), Ludhiana (1,011 acres)

  • Status: Withdrawn from Ambala project, not pursuing Punjab SEZ projects
Nanocity And HSIDC

Over 11,138 acres in Panchkula district, positioned as India's future Silicon valley

  • Cost: Rs 2,000 crore
  • Status: Project put on the backburner by the Sabeer Bhatia-led developers
Unitech and HSIDC

10,000-acre multi-product SEZ at Sonepat-Kundli

  • Cost: Rs 22,000 crore
  • Potential jobs: 1.20 lakh
  • Status: Unitech has put the Ramesh Chandra project on hold

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