New Delhi: Infosys chief mentor and one of India's richest men N R Narayana Murthy has expressed reservation about India's SEZ policy.
With West Bengal erupting in violence over the proposed SEZ in Singur and land acquisition in Nandigram, Murthy on Wednesday opposed the practice of acquiring farm lands.
Warning of repercussions in wake of the Nandigram killings, Murthy said that the old practice of companies building their own campuses was good enough.
"I agree that we cannot take land from farmers," Murthy was quoted by news agencies as saying in Bangalore.
Murthy, the non-executive Chairman of Infosys Technologies Limited, also said that bringing real estate players in the issue that essentially concerns farmers and firms was “not the best thing to do”.
"That's why all this furore has been created. I think the earlier policy of requesting companies to deal directly to get land and build their own campuses is a good one".
He also said that people are likely to misinterpret news that spreads like fire on the Internet. “Let's remember that news travels through Internet pretty quickly and given that it is so, people all over the world will read it and perhaps in some ways some of them will misinterpret it too. So in that sense there is always a danger of having some repercussions", he added.
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