Wood-based industries: Guidelines

Wood-based industries: Guidelines

Central Government is considering to amend guidelines of wood based Industries.

It recommends formation of state level committee and wood councils which will govern under the MoEFCC, Govt of India.

Some of the basic features among it is underlined for understanding by one and all :

4 iii. c). The State-level Wood Council should ensure less transportation cost and may fix minimum and maximum price of local farm wood in trade areas based on market chain analysis.

4 iii. d). The State-level Wood Council should strive to remove the widespread mismatch between demand and supply of farm wood at the State and the regional level:

4 iii. h). The State-level Wood Council should decide on the electronic framework for registration of all wood based industries exempted from license and procurement of wood from legitimate sources.

7.  i) No license to a new wood-based industry shall be granted without obtaining prior approval of SLC….

ii) Following industries/processing units shall not require license prescribed in clause (i) above:

ii. a) Veneers, plywood Medium Density Fiber (MDF) Board, Particle Boards, pulp and paper and such other industries which use farm wood or imported wood as raw material and procured from legitimate sources, or

ii. b) Which use sawn timber, plywood, veneer, Block board, MDF or similar wood based products, procured from legitimate sources.

iii) Such wood-based industries as enumerated in clause (ii) above shall be registered (online) with the State/UT Forest Department: these industries shall be required to submit self-attested returns of wood procured and used by them at such intervals and in such online electronic format that the State/UT Forest Department will prescribe.

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