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 The Supply of Bamboos to Artisans Including Co-operative Societies (Orissa)  Rules, 1980
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 ODISHA
   
 India
 
 The Supply of Bamboos to Artisans Including Co-operative Societies (Orissa)  Rules, 1980
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 Rule THE-SUPPLY-OF-BAMBOOS-TO-ARTISANS-INCLUDING-CO-OPERATIVE-SOCIETIES-ORISSA-RULES-1980 of 1980
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* Published on 26 May 1980
* Commenced on 26 May 1980
 The Supply of Bamboos to Artisans Including Co-operative Societies (Orissa)  Rules, 1980
 
 Published vide Orissa Gazette, Extraordinary No. 689-D/26.5.1980-Notification S.R.O. No. 411/80-D/10.4.1980
 
 In exercise of the powers conferred by Clauses (c) , (d) and (e) of Section 36 of the Orissa Forest Act, 1972 (Orissa Act
 14 of 1972 
 ), the State Government do hereby make the following Rules to control and regulate the granting of licenses to bamboo artisans including Co-operative Societies and feeling and removing bamboos from protected forests located within the vicinity of the place where they are ordinarily residents, for purposes of trade namely :
 
### 1. Short Title, Extent and Commencement.
(1) The rules may be called The Supply of Bamboos to Artisans including Co-operative Societies (Orissa) Rules, 1980.
 
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
 
### 2. Definitions.
 - In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires :-
 
(i) Act means the Orissa Forest Act, 1972 (Orissa Act
 14 of 1972 
 );
 
(ii) Bamboo-artisans means a person who earns his livelihood or a Co-operative Society, the members of which earn their livelihood by making baskets, kullas, tatties, variety of containers and other articles made of bamboos for sale to general public;
 
(iii) Family means the members of the family of bamboo artisans;
 
(iv) Form means a form appended to these rules;
 
(v) Licensee means any individual member or a family or Society is registered under Rule 3 and is in possession of the licence book;
 
(vi) Permit means a permit issued by an authority competent to issue the same under these rules;
 
(vii) [\* \* \*]
 
 [Deleted by F.F.A.H. No. 13064 Dated 17.6.1983.]
 
(viii) Society means a Bamboo Artisans' Co-operative Society registered under the Orissa Co-operative Societies Act, 1962,
 
(ix) Value means value of bamboos as Per rate prescribed in the Schedule appended to these rules;
 
(x) Vicinity means the area within the territorial Forest Range but does not include a plantation area;
 
(xi) Working month means all the months of the calendar year except months of July, August and September;
 
(xii) Working season means the period between 1st October to 30th June;
 
 All words and expressions used in these rules but not defined therein have the same meaning as are respectively assigned to them in the Act.
 
### 3. Registration and Licence.
(1) All the members of family or Society desirous of obtaining bamboos from protected forests for manufacture of bamboo products for purposes of trade shall be required to register themselves in the territorial Forest Range Office within whose jurisdiction they are ordinarily residents.
 
(2) The application for registration shall be in Form No. I and shall be accompanied by an Identity Certificate in Form No. 11 issued by the Sarpanch of the Grama Panchayat or Ward Member of Municipality or Notified Area Council, as the case may be, of the area where the applicant is ordinarily resident (in case the applicant of a society, the Identity Certificate in respect of all members of the Society shall be furnished).
 
(3) All applications received from members of family and Societies shall be serially entered in a register in Form No. III by the concerned territorial Forest Range Officer. The applications and Identity Certificates shall be filled in the Range Office.
 
(4) After registering the application the Range Officer shall issue a printed licence book in Form No. IV to the licensee from whom the cost of licence book amounting to rupees two shall be realised and credited to forest revenue. An used-up licence book when returned by the licensee, shall be replaced by a new one, free of cost, by the Range Officer.
 
(5) All the printed licence books shall bear machine serial number. A register of licence books shall be maintained in the Range Office in Form No. V.
 
### 4. Permit and Scale of Supply.
(1) Subject to such orders or directions of the State Government and subject to availability in the protected forest, a licensee may be granted permit during the working season up to five hundred and forty Salia bamboos.
 
(2) Not more than sixty Salia bamboos shall be permitted for removal in a working month under permit and not more than twenty bamboos shall be allowed at a time.
 
(3) The bamboos to be cut and removed under such permit shall not be less than two years old.
 
(4) The Forester or any Forest Officer superior to him having jurisdiction over the area can issue such permits on realisation of value and presentation of the licence book by the licensee. Each issue of permit shall be duly entered in the licence book by the Forest Officer with his initial and date.
 
(5) A permit shall be in Form VI. The permit books shall be in triplicate and each page of the permit book shall bear the serial number of the book and page number of the permit in print. The original permit shall be issued to the party, the duplicate copy to be sent by the issuing Officer to the Forest range Officer along with accounts and the triplicate shall be retained as a counterfoil in the book.
 
### 5. [ Value of Bamboos.
 
 [Substituted by Orissa Gazette Extraordinary No. 825 dated 15.7.1983.]
 - The value payable for the purpose of Sub-rule (4)  of Rule 4 in respect of different forest divisions shall be at the rate of forty-three per single Salia bamboo meant for felling and removal under a permit granted under Rule 4 :
 
 Provided that the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, revise such rate from time to time.]
 
### 6. Restrictions.
 - While cutting bamboos, the cutting rules prescribed in the Working Plan of the Division shall be applicable for the. purposes of this rule also.
 
### 7. Other Methods of Supply and Rates thereof.
 - The State Government may prescribe separate rates for different areas for the bamboos to be paid by the licensees when such bamboos are supplied for the purpose of these rules from departmentally opened depots.
 
### 8. infringement and Penalty.
 - Infringement of any of the provisions of these rules by the licensee shall make him liable to forfeiture of the licence besides such other action that may be taken under provisions of Section 37 of the Act.
 
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 [(Schedule)  Deleted by Orissa Gazette Extraordinary No. 825 dated 15.7.1983.]
 
 Form I
 
 [Rule 3 (2) ]
 
 Application Form for Registration
 
(1) Name of the applicant...
 
(2) Father's name...
 
(3) Address...
 
(4) Whether the applicant is a member of family of bamboo artisans/ Bamboo Artisans Co-operative Society...
 
(5) Number of members in the family with their names engaged in Bamboo handi, work/Names along with the name of president and the name of the Society...
 
(6) Monthly requirement of Salia bamboos...
 
(7) Name of forest from where required...
 
 Signature of the applicant
 
 Declaration
 
 I.....................do hereby declare that the information furnished above are true and that myself and my family members are bamboo artisans and dependent on trade of bamboo articles as the means of livelihood.
 
 Signature of the applicant
 
 Place :
 
 Date :
 
 Form II
 
 [Rule 3 (2) ]
 
 Identity Certificate
 
 This is to certify that Shri.................. son of Shri.............. village........... P. S..........under Ward No........... of.................. Grama Panchayat NAC/Municipality is a bamboo artisan with following family member.............. of............. (name)  Society............. consisting of members engaged in manufacture of bamboo products. The members of the family/Society are fully dependent on such trade for earning their livelihood. I have not granted similar certificate to this person or to any other member of his family or Society in the past.
 
 Names of the member of the family or Society
 
 (1) (2)
 
 Signature of the Sarpanch/Ward Member
 
 (Name in full)
 
 Name of Grama Panchayat
 
 NAC
 
 Municipality
 
 Date..............
 
 Form III
 
 [Rule 3 (3) ]
 
 Register of Application for Bamboo Artisans
 
### 1. Date................ ###
 2. Name of applicant..................
### 3. Village................ ###
 4. Name of G.P./N.A.C./Municipality.................
### 5. By whom identified................. ###
 6. No. of Members in the family................
### 7. Society................ ###
 8. Registration No. of the applicant................
### 9. Forest from which supply is required..................
### 10. No. of licence book issued.................
### 11. Date of issue...............
### 12. Remarks...............
 Form IV
 
 [Rule 3 (4) ]
 
 Price of Book Rs. 2 (Rupees Two) only
 
 Licence Book for Bamboo Artisans
 
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 Book No.................
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 These details should be printed on the front page of the
 
 Licence Book
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 Name of Range...........
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 Name of Division........
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 Name of Licensee........
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 His signature or thumb impression
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 Form inside the book
 
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 Date
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 Permit No.
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 From which forest supply is permitted and figures
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 No. of Salia Bamboos permitted (in words and
 
 figures)
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 Initials of the Issuing Officer
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 (1) | 
 (2) | 
 (3) | 
 (4) | 
 (5) |
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 Form V
 
 [Rule 3 (5) ]
 
 Register of Licence Books
 
### 1. Date of receipt of books................ ###
 2. Machine number serials of books.....................
### 3. Date of issue to licence.............. ###
 4. Machine No. of the licence book issued....................
### 5. Name and address of licence to whom issued....................... ###
 6. Date of return of the book after use................
### 7. Initials of the Issuing Officer.............. Form VI
 
 [Rule 4 (5) ]
 
 Bamboo Permit Forest Department, Orissa
 
 Book No.................................. Permit No..........
 
 Name of the licensee ..........................................
 
 Address.....................................................
 
 Number of Salia Bamboos permitted for removal (in words and figures).................................
 
 Value paid (in figures and words)..............................
 
 Name of protected forests from where removal is permitted...........................................
 
 Date of issue .......................................................
 
 Date of expiry of the permit...................................
 
 Signature of issuing Officer
 
 Date........................
 
 Note - Bamboo cutting rules prescribed for the Reserved Forests of the Division shall be observed while cutting bamboos in Protected Forests under these Rules.
 

