Exports from SEZs

The value of exports made from SEZs during each of last three years and the current year along with the percentage increase made over the previous year is as under:

             During the year 2008-09, India's total export registered a growth of 3.5% as compared to a growth of 29.1% during the previous year. The slow growth of export was primarily due to adverse impact of global slowdown on India's exports from the Second Half of the year. 

This information was given by Shri Jyotiraditya M Scindia, Minister of State for Commerce & Industry, in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.