MINISTRY OF TEXTILES
New Delhi, the 29th May, 1987
ORDERS
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(E) :~ Whereas the Central Government9 after considering the
recommendations made to it by the Standing Advisory Committee, is satisfied
that it is necessary so to do in the interests of production of raw jute and
jute packaging material, and of persons engaged in the production thereof ;
Now, therefore, in exercise of
powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Jute Packaging
Materials (Compulsory Use in Packing Commodities), Act, 1987 (10 of 1987) the
Central Government hereby directs that, with effect from lst June, 1987, the
commodities specified in column (2) of the Schedule below, shall be packed in
jute packaging material, for supply or distribution, in such minimum percentage
as specified in corresponding entries in column
(3) of the said Schedule.
SCHEDULE
| S1. No. | Commodities |
Percentage of total production of Commonly of class of commodities Required to be packed in jute Packaging material |
| 1. | Food grains | Hundred per cent |
| 2. | Sugar | Hundred per cent |
| 3. | Cement | Seventy per cent |
| 4. | Fertilizers | Fifty per cent |
Excluding ;
(a) Calcium Ammonium Nitrate
(CAN)
(b)
Ammonium Nitro phosphate (ANP)
(c)
Single Super phosphate (SSP)
(d)
Suphala-produced by R.C.F.
Trombay
(e) Triple Super phosphate (TSP)
Powers under Jute Packaging Order May 1987 | Minimum use of Jute in Packaging; Order Aug. 1987
Jute & Jute Control Order of April 2000
Jute Packaging Materials Act | JMDC Act | Jute Manufacturers Cess Act
Jute Packaging Material Rules of 26th August 1987.