De-Reservation of 14 items from items reserved from SSI Sector

16-10-2008

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De-Reservation of 14 items from items reserved from SSI Sector

The Government has taken major policy measures since the early 1990's for making Indian industry, including its crucial Small Scale Sector, competitive to unleash its growth potential. One of the crucial measures have been the gradual and calibrated removal of restriction in the form of reservation of items to be exclusively produced in the Small Scale Sector. This policy has been undertaken essentially to:

To increase the competitiveness of industry.

* To facilitate adequate flow of credit.

* To upgrade technology so that the product produced are of world class and competitive in the global market.

* Enable Indian industry to compete with imports.

* To achieve the economies of scale.

* Promote creation of job opportunities

The pace for de-reservation of the items has accelerated since 2005. Number of items de-reserved in 2005, 2006 and 2007 were 108, 180 and 212 respectively. In February 2008, 79 more items were de-reserved. Thus, from 2005 onwards Government has de-reserved 579 items and only 35 items were remaining for exclusive manufacture in the SSI Sector.

The Government has decided to further de-reserve another 14 items. With this de-reservation, only 21 items will remain in the list of the items which can be exclusively manufactured in the Small Scale Sector.

The list of 14 items de-reserved on 10th October, 2008 is as below

LIST OF ITEMS DE-RESERVED ON 10.10.2008 FROM THE LIST OF ITEMS FOR EXCLUSIVE MANUFACTURE IN SMALL SCALE SECTOR

Sno.	Sno. (as per gazette notification)	PRODUCT CODE	NAME OF THE PRODUCT
(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
20-21 FOOD AND ALLIED INDUSTRIES
1.	16	21920101	Ground and processed spices other than spice oil and Oleo resin spices
303 PLASTIC PRODUCTS
2.	126	301201	Full PVC footwear chappals, sandals and shoes
3.	133	30350101	Polythylene Films with thickness less than 0.10 mm except co-extruded film cross linked polymer films and high density molecular films.
4.	134	30350102	Products of polythylene films as coloured printed films & bags.
5.	136	303702	Polypropylene tubular films (except biaxially oriented)
INJECTION MOULDING THERMO-PLASTIC PRODUCTS:
6.	235	310645	Diethyl phthalate
7.	236	310646	Diocytyl phthalate
8.	242	312405	Chlorinated paraffin wax (upto 60% Chlorine content)
OTHER CHEMICALS AND CHEMICAL PRODUCTS
9.	256	310111	Barium carbonate
10.	279	310337	Zinc sulphate--other than manufactured by a primary metal producer as a by-product
GLASS AND CERAMICS
11.	393	341001015	Doors, windows and ventilators metallic excluding heavy duty hollow steal doors filled with non-metallic cores, suitable for special applications like security, fire protection, sound proofing and bullet penetration resistance).
12.	464	343627	Builders hardware
36 Electrical machines, appliances &apparatus including electronics Electrical Appliances
13.	553	36040201	Electric motor 1 H.P. to 10 H.P.-A.C. except - Special types
14.	587	363804	Electrical wiring accessories other than switches, plugs and sockets.