A high-level panel has asked government to revisit its Special Economic Zone, SEZ Act comprehensively and put a ban on transfer of common property and agricultural land for its implementation. Committee on State Agrarian Relations and the Unfinished Task in Land Reforms has noted that concerns of tribals and farmers remained totally unattended under the Act as there is no cost-benefit analysis for such projects. The report of the committee, which was set up by the Rural Development Ministry in 2007, was submitted through the ministry to the National Land Reforms Council, headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.<br/><br/> <br/><br/>The Committee noted that the status of deemed foreign territory to SEZs stands to undermine the institutions set up under (Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996) as also the rights of the individual citizens. It also noted that concentration of powers in the hands of development commissioners at the state level and board of approvals in the Centre is greatly going to challenge the local governance under the Act.<br/>