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Kakinada, Dec. 15

The East Godavari district administration is going ahead with land acquisition for the proposed port-based special economic zone, even though there is uncertainty over the setting up of a refinery by the ONGC - the main project in the SEZ.

Mr M. Subrahmanyam, District Collector, told presspersons here on Thursday that till now 4,800 acres of land had been made ready for the SEZ and it had been directly purchased from farmers by the SEZ management at a cost of Rs 3 lakh an acre. Still, 3,100 acres more will be needed for the project.

He said that recently, after a long wait, the district administration had set in motion the process for the acquisition of land, and award involving 600 acres of dry land had been passed.

The Collector said that till now only dry land had been acquired for the project. There would not be much evacuation of villages and only 1,800 households or so would be affected and they would be duly compensated, he added.

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