A REVIEW OF CURRENT PERFORMANCE OF SEZ IN INDIA WITH REFERENCE TO MAHINDRA AND JAIPUR SEZ

Abstract A Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is a type of managed industrial cluster which focuses on exports and encourages foreign direct investment (FDI), employment. India have SEZ policy every since 2006 and have been in operation since then. Since then SEZ have been source of employment generation and export creation. SEZ are widely distributed in entire country.SEZ in India are not as successful as other country due to various government policies and infrastructure. Withdrawal of benefit like exemption from MAT and DDT in 2015 was a major challenge faced by the units in SEZ. Rajasthan have three operational SEZ (Jaipur SEZ phase I and II and Mahindra SEZ Jaipur). This paper analyses the SEZ performance in India and Rajasthan in terms of Investment, Exports, Employment and Sector wise distribution. The paper discuss about overall performance of the SEZ. The paper is based on secondary data from various government websites and publication. Secondary data is analyzed to see the performance of SEZ in India Keywords: SEZ in India, SEZ in Rajasthan, Export, Investment, Employment