NAGPUR: M/s Reatox Builders and Developers, coming up with First City residential project in Mihan-special economic zone, has said it had been authorized to lease the residential units also to persons from outside the
SEZ area.
Reatox's managing director Atul Shirodkar on Tuesday revealed to media a letter from Maharashtra Airport Development Company (MADC), the SEZ's developer to support his claim. The letter said the company could lease flats in First City to general public/persons outside SEZ area from anywhere around the world. The flats were freely transferable by existing parties to third parties without any fees being charged by Reatox Builders. The MADC letter further said no ground rent was applicable to any lessee.
Shirodkar showed a letter from the Union ministry of commerce that approved the list of goods and services in the project. The letter, he said, was a certification of tax exemption for the material and other services utilized in the project. "An approval for exemption itself shows that the ministry has given its nod to the project," he claimed.
He added that the firm had to pay 80 lakh an acre for the additional 12 acres of land earlier demanded as compensation for reducing the number of floors in the buildings from 18 to 13 following objections by the Airports Authority of India (AAI). "Even though we had demanded land for free we have been charged 80 lakh an acre," he said.
Source : timesofindia.indiatimes.com