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File No.1-2/2007-SPF

Government of India

Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

Department of Food and Public Distribution

 

 Krishi Bhawan, New Delhi

Dated the 28th March, 2008

ORDER

In continuation of Order of even no. dated 27th July, 2007 and as per Rule 20A of Sugar Development Fund Rules, 1983 the Central Government has decided to extend the period of eligibility, for the charges mentioned therein, upto 30th September, 2008 or till further orders, whichever is earlier.  Other terms and conditions would remain the same.

Sd/-

(Abinash Verma)

Director SDF

 Distribution:- Commissioner of Sugar (All States)

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Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution 

(Department of Food and Public Distribution)

NOTIFICATION

                        New Delhi, the 25th February, 2008

S.O.  392(E)  --  In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of Section 3 of the Sugar Cess Act, 1982, the Central Government hereby notifies that there shall be levied and collected as a cess for the purpose of Sugar Development  Fund Act, 1982, a duty of excise on all sugar produced by any sugar factory in India at a rate of twenty four rupees per quintal of sugar.

2 .        The above rate shall come into force with effect from 1st March, 2008 and will apply on sugar dispatched or delivered on or after such date.

   

                                                                                    [ No. 1-37/2003-SDF]

                                                                                    N. SANYAL, Jt. Secy.

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>>submission of buffer subsidy claim within the prescribed time limit of sub-rule 19 of Rule 19A of SDF Rules,1983<<

 

 

 

 

>>Release of employees' quota of levy sugar for the year 2008<<

 

 

 

 

 

>>sugar factories to produce ethanol directly from sugarcane juice<<

 

 

 

Guidelines for submission of buffer stock subsidy claim for buffer stock created during 2006-07 sugar season onwards

 

 

 

Scheme for Extending Financial Assistance to Sugar Undertakings, 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

>>Factory Wise Final Allocation of Buffer Stock Of 30 Lakh Tons for the Period 01-08-2007 to 31-07-2008<<

 

 

 

 

 

 

>>Rule 19 A- for settlement of buffer sock subsidy claim for buffer stock created during 2006-07 Sugar Season<<

 

 

 

 

 

 

>>Defraying expenditure on internal transport and freight charges on export shipment of sugar<<

 

 

 

 

 

 

>>RBI Notification: Advances to Sugar Industry - Holding of Buffer Stock<<

 

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Payment Of Internal Transport and Freight Charges on export of Domestically manufactured sugar

File No. 1-2/2007/SPF

Government of India

Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

(Department of Food and Public Distribution)  

Krishi Bhavan, New Delhi.

Dated 27th July, 2007

ORDER

Subject:        Payment of internal transport and freight charges on exports of domestically manufactured sugar         

In supersession of earlier Order of even No. dated 19th April,2007 and in exercise of powers conferred by Clause (bbb) of Section 4 of the Sugar Development Fund Act, 1982, the Central Government has decided to reimburse to a sugar factory a part of the expenditure incurred for the purpose of internal transport and freight charges (which would include ocean freight and handling & marketing charges) on exports of its  domestically manufactured sugar, which includes raw sugar, exported by a sugar factory itself, through an exporter or any third party exporter.   On careful consideration of all the costs involved on such exports, the Government has decided to limit the payment as follows:-   

a)          For the sugar manufactured by the sugar mills located in the coastal States in India, the payment will be Rs.1350 per tonne of sugar exported and

b)            For the sugar manufactured by the sugar mills located in other than the coastal States of India, the payment will be at a flat rate of Rs.1450 per tonne of sugar exported.

Provided that the payment to the factory for the exports made to neighbouring countries like Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal etc. solely, by road and/or rail, not involving movement by sea/ocean, will be the actual expenditure incurred on the above mentioned charges or will be the above mentioned amount, whichever is less.

2.0            Exports made under OGL only (and not under ‘advance license’) on or after 19th April 2007 and within 18th April 2008 or till further orders, whichever is earlier, would be eligible for payment of above charges.

3.0            Procedure for making claims for the payments and documents required to be furnished with the claims will be notified separately.                          

                                      (Abinash Verma)

                                      Director (SDF)

Distribution:-   Commissioner of Sugar (All states).

 

File No. 1-2/2007/SPF

Government of India

Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

(Department of Food and Public Distribution)  

Krishi Bhavan, New Delhi .

Dated 19th April, 2007

ORDER  

Subject:          Payment of internal transport and freight charges on exports of domestically manufactured sugar

In exercise of powers conferred by Clause (bbb) of Section 4 of the Sugar Development Fund Act, 1982, the Central Government has decided that exports made by a sugar factory itself or through an exporter or any third party exporter, of its domestically manufactured sugar, would, for the purposes of internal transport and freight charges (which would include ocean freight disadvantage and handling and marketing charges) on such exports, be eligible for the following payments from the Sugar Development Fund:

a)         For the sugar manufactured by the sugar mills located in the coastal States of India, the payment will be at a flat rate of Rs.1350 per tonne of sugar exported and

b)         For the sugar manufactured by the sugar mills located in other than the coastal States of India, the payment will be at a flat rate of Rs.1450 per tonne of sugar exported.

2.0            Exports made under OGL only (and not under ‘advance license’) on or after 19th April 2007 and within 18th April 2008 or till further orders, whichever is earlier, would be eligible for payment of above charges.

3.0            Procedure for making claims for the payments and the documents required to be furnished with the claims will be notified shortly.                        

                                      (Abinash Verma)

                                      Director (SDF)

Distribution:-   Commissioner of Sugar (All states).

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Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

 (Department of Food and Public Distribution)

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 9th March, 2007

GSR 188(E).     In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 9 of the Sugar Development Fund Act, 1982 (4 of 1982), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Sugar Development Fund Rules, 1983, namely:-

1.(1)    These rules may be called the Sugar Development Fund (Amendment) Rules, 2007.

  (2)    They shall come into force on the date of their publication in Official Gazette.

2.         In the Sugar Development Fund Rules 1983, after rule 24, the following chapter shall be inserted, namely:-

“Chapter XIV

 Security, interest and additional interest on Sugar Development Fund loans

25. (1) The security, interest and additional interest for the loans given under Sugar Development Fund Rules 16,17,21,22 and 23 from the Fund shall be governed as follows.

  (2)       The loans shall carry a concessional rate of simple interest of 2% below the Bank Rate.

 (3)       In case of any default in repayment of the amount of loan or payment of any installment thereof or interest thereon (in accordance with the Rules), an additional interest at the rate of two and half per cent per annum on the amount of default shall be payable by the sugar factory.

(4)       The sugar factory shall, after the execution of the agreement required to be entered into and before the disbursement of the loan under Rules, furnish security for the loan to the satisfaction of the Central Government.

(5)       The security shall cover the amount of loan and interest thereon for the full period of repayment as provided in the Rules and further additional interest on the amount of default as provided in sub-rule(3) above, and shall be furnished in any of the following manners namely:-

(i)                 Bank Guarantee from a Scheduled Bank ; or

(ii)               A mortgage on all immovable and movable properties of the sugar factory on pari passu first charge basis failing which on the basis of an exclusive second charge:

Provided that in case of sugarcane development loan under Rules 17 and 21, a cooperative sugar factory can furnish the security in the form of State Government Guarantee.

(6)       In case of two consecutive defaults in repayment of the loan or instalment thereof, the Central Government shall realize the entire amount of loan alongwith the interest and the additional interest thereon from any of the security provided for the loan under sub-rule (5) above or any claim of the sugar factory against the Central Government.”

3.         The following sub-rules shall be deleted:-

(i)         In Rule 16, sub-rule (9), clause (ii-A); and clause (iii)

(ii)        In Rule 17, sub-rule (3), clause (a), the words from “The amount of loan” to “two per cent below the bank rate and”, and sub-rule 3(b).

(iii)       In Rule 17A, sub-rules(8) (11) and (12);

(iv)       In Rule 21, in sub-rule (11) clause (iii) and in sub-rule (13) clause (iii);

(v)        In Rule 22, sub-rules (13), (16) and (18) and proviso under sub-rule 18;

(vi)       In Rule 23, sub-rules (15), (16) and (18) and proviso under sub-rule 18.

[F.No.1-10/2006-SDF]

SUNIL PORWAL, Jt. Secy.

 

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(TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY PART – II,

SECTION – 3, SUB-SECTION (ii)

  

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NOTIFICATION NO. 42 (RE-2006)/2004-2009

NEW DELHI, THE 23RD  JANUARY, 2007

 S.O.(E)            In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 5 of the Foreign Trade (Development & Regulation) Act, 1992 (No. 22 of 1992) read with Para 1.3 and Para 2.1 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2004-2009 (as amended from time to time), the Central Government hereby makes the following amendments with immediate effect in the Paragraph 3 of Notification No. 18 (RE-2006)/2004-2009 dated 4.7.2006:-

             At the end of Paragraph 3, the following sentence be added :

            “The prohibition shall not apply to export of sugar executed under valid Release Orders issued by the Directorate of Sugar, Department of Food and Public Distribution, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, upto the limits approved by the Government, after which fresh approvals will be taken for further releases.”

2.                  This issue in Public Interest.

Sd/-

(Bhawani Singh Meena)

Director General of Foreign Trade

And Ex-Officio Additional Secretary to the Govt. of India

 

(Issued from F. No. 01/ 91/180/946AM06/PC-III/Vol.I)

 

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(TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY PART – II,

SECTION – 3, SUB-SECTION (ii)

  

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

 

 NOTIFICATION NO. 40 (RE-2006)/2004-2009

NEW DELHI, THE 3RD  JANUARY, 2007

S.O.(E)            In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 5 of the Foreign Trade (Development & Regulation) Act, 1992 (No. 22 of 1992) read with Para 1.3 and Para 2.1 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2004-2009, the Central Government hereby makes the following amendments with immediate effect in the Paragraph 3 of Notification No. 18 (RE-2006)/2004-2009 dated 4.7.2006:-

                     At the end of Paragraph 3, the following sentence be added :

                     “The prohibition shall not apply to export of sugar by existing advance  

                      licence holders as on 4/7/2006 as per their obligations on that date.”

            2.      This issue in Public Interest.

 Sd/-

(Bhawani Singh Meena)

Director General of Foreign Trade

And Ex-Officio Additional Secretary to the Govt. of India

 

(Issued from F. No. 01/ 91/180/ 946/AM06 PC-III)

 

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