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With the power that real estate agents can only dream of. BS reports

Over 1,00,000 acres will be taken over by the Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa and West Bengal governments or government agencies, as state administrations attempt to kick-start development by getting investors to put up smokestack industries.

The West Bengal government faces the unenviable task of acquiring more than 35,000 acres using the state land acquisition machinery for special economic zones (SEZs) in the state, besides 1,600 acres for the Tata projects, 6,500 acres for the Jindal Steel project and 1,000 acres for the Reliance Retail initiative.

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