Government of India

Ministry of Commerce and Industry

Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion

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12th June, 2000

Udyog Bhavan, New Delhi.

PRESS RELEASE

In fulfilment of its commitment to provide greater transparency in decision making and to dispose of proposals in a time bound manner, it has been decided to constitute a committee under the chairmanship of Joint Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion to consider applications for issue of Essentiality Certificate for allocation of Coal/Coke/LPG for those items for which Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion is administratively concerned except the ‘cement industry’ for which proposals are directly considered by the ‘Standing Linkage Committee’ in Department of Coal. The committee will consider the following types of cases:

  1. If the additional requirement of the existing firms is more than 10% of their best annual consumption during the last 3 years.
  2. For new units.
  3. For substantial expansion.

Applications for issue of the aforesaid essentiality certificate should be necessarily filed with the Entrepreneurial Assistance Unit, Secretariat for Industrial Assistance (SIA), Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Udyog Bhawan, New Delhi which on receipt of such application shall issue a computerized acknowledgement, bearing registration number for all future reference. Applicants should ensure that all documents are filed along with the application as per the enclosed proformae (Annexures A and B). The necessary "Essentiality Certificate" will be issued or communication issued otherwise to the applicant within a period of three weeks.

(I. SRINIVAS)

DIRECTOR

 

File No. 7(25)/99-IP dated 12th June, 2000.

Forwarded to the Press Information Bureau for giving vide publicity to the contents of the above press release.

 

ANNEXURE A

Proforma for Application for Allocation of Railway Wagons
for movement of coal under priority classification:
(To be used by all industries under administrative control of Department of IPP
except Cement Industry)
 
1 State :  
2 Name of Industrial Consumer :  
3 Address :

a. Registered office :

b. Location of the plant :

  
4 Name of destination/ station for coal/coke receipt :  
5 Item of manufacture :  
6 Item-wise capacity as per letter of Registration/ Industrial Licence/ IEM :  
7 Broad specification of the equipment for which coal/ coke would be needed :  
8 Grade of coal/coke required viz., Steam/ Slag/ BP/ BH/ Hard coke :  
9 Whether coal/ coke is required from

Railway or CIL stockyard :

  
10 A) Item-wise production for each item for last three years in tonnes :

B) Raw materials used :

  
11 Receipt of coal/ coke during last three years in tonnes (year-wise) :  
12 Consumption of coal/ coke for production at Sl.No. 10(A) above :  
13 Any other fuel consumed for the same operation :  
14 I) Requirement of coal/coke for the year _____(January-December) :

II) Whether the serving colliery (ies)falls under Western Coal Fields Ltd. :

  
15 Any other Information  
   

Signature of the Applicant

Name:

Designation
 

Date:

(N.B.: Please refer to Note-1, annexed)

  

:

 

 

ANNEXURE B

Proforma for Allocation of LPG

1 Name of Industrial Unit and the factory address where LPG is tobe supplied  
2 Specific item of manufacture for which LPG is required  
3 Description and purpose of the equipment involving the use of LPG  
4 Specific technological reasons for inability to use alternative fuels other than LPG.  
5 Quantity of LPG (tonne) required per month, keeping in view the phased production target in the unit  
6 Date from which LPG supply is required  
7 Name of the oil company from which LPG supply is to be arranged  
8 The month-wise past off take/ consumption of LPG (in tonne) with corresponding production for the same period (for existing units only) duly certified by an independent Chartered Accountant  
9 Date of Government approval of the scheme for which LPG is recommended (Copy of the approval to be attached)  
10 Date of acquisition/ installation of the equipment mentioned against Sl.No.3  
11 Date of acquisition / installation of of storage tank for LPG  
12 Likely date of commencement of production (in case of New units/ substantial expansion projects)  
     
Date:   Signature of the Applicant

Name

Designation:

(N.B.: Please refer to Note-2, annexed)

 

Note 1: For Annexure A

 

  1. Details under column 10, 11, 12 &13 should be certified by an independent Chartered Accountant
  2. Complete details of order book position and production programme to be enclosed in the cases where additional requirement is more than 10% of the best yearly past consumption (by the existing units).
  3. New Units / Substantial expansion projects should give certificate from Chartered Engineer, regarding installation of plant and machinery indicating the status of the project, likely date of commencement of commercial production, detailed calculation for coal/ coke requirement.
  4. New units/ substantial expansion projects should indicate clearly as to whether they have established linkage with Coal India Limited (attach photo copy).

 

Note 2 : For Annexure B

  1. Information from S.No.9 to 12 to be submitted only for new units/ substantial expansion projects.
  2. Upto date valid licence from Department of Explosives for bulk storage of LPG to be enclosed ( by the existing units)
  3. Complete details of order book position and production programme to be enclosed in the cases where additional requirement is more than 10% of best yearly past consumption (by the existing units).
  4. Approval / licence from Department of Explosives for bulk storage of LPG to be enclosed ( by the new units/ substantial expansion projects)
  5. Chartered Engineer’s Certificate regarding installation of plant and machinery, likely date of commencement of production and detailed calculation for fresh/ additional LPG to be enclosed (by the new units/ substantial expansion projects).