Goa Gazette, No. 1718-23, 07 September 2017

Reg. No. G-2/RNP/GOA/32/2015-2017

RNI No. GOAENG/2002/6410

Panaji, 7th September, 2017 (Bhadra 16, 1939) SERIES I No. 23 PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

NOTE

There are two Extraordinary issues to the Official Gazette, Series I No. 22 dated 31-8-2017 as follows:—

(1) Extraordinary dated 31-8-2017 from pages 1297 to 1298 from Department of Finance, Not. No. 4/5/2005-Fin(R&C)/ /151 regarding Amendment of the Schedule 'C' of Goa Value Added Tax Act, 2005.

(2) Extraordinary (No. 2) dated 31-8-2017 from pages 1299 to 1318 from Department of Law & Judiciary (Legal Affairs Division), Notification No. 7/13/2017-LA regarding the Goa Agricultural Tenancy (Amendment) Act, 2017, Not. No. 7//20/ /2017-LA the Goa Protection of Interests of Depositors (in Financial Establishments) (Amendment) Act, 2017, Not. No. 7/ /19/2017-LA regarding the Goa VAT (Tenth Amendment) Act, 2017, Not. No. 7/17/2017-LA regarding the Goa Compensation to the Project Affected Persons and Vesting of Land in the Government Act, 2017 and Not. No. 7/18/2017--LA regarding the Goa Excise Duty (Amendment) Act, 2017 and from Department of Urban Development Not. No. 11/43//2017-DMA/ /1571 regarding Draft Rules— The Goa Real Estate (Regulation and Development) (Recovering of Interest, Penalty, Compensation, Fine Payable Forms of Complaints and Appeal etc.) Rules, 2017.

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Department Notification/Order Subject Pages

1.a. Agriculture Not.- 3/1/AD(AE)/2017-18/ Modified scheme for Custom Hiring Service in 1319 Dir. & ex officio Jt. Secretary /D.Agri/119 Agriculture.

b. —do— Not.- 3/1/AD(AE)/2017-18/ Promotion of Mechanization in Agriculture 1325

/D.Agri/120 Scheme.

2. Information and Publicity Not.- DI/INF/Scheme The Goa Ex-Gratia Compassionate Assistance 1332 Dir. & ex officio Jt. Secretary Ex-gratia-2017 to the Dependents of Journalist Scheme, 2017.

GOVERNMENT OF GOA

Department of Agriculture

Directorate of Agriculture — Notification

3/1/AD(AE)/2017-18/D.Agri/119

1. Short title and commencement.— The scheme shall be called "Modified scheme for Custom Hiring Service in Agriculture".

(i) The scheme shall cover all talukas of the

State of Goa.

(ii) The scheme shall come into force with immediate effect and shall remain in force till it is withdrawn or as amended.

1. Objectives.— (i) Promote agricultural mechanization to overcome shortage and high cost of manual labour.

(ii) To encourage optimum tillage through

custom service facility.

(iii) Enable completion of agricultural

operations in time.

(iv) To bring in mechanization within reach

of common farmer.

2. Eligibility.— (i) All the farmers in Goa venturing for ploughing/transplanting/ /weeding/harvesting shall be eligible for subsidy on hire charges of agricultural machineries.

(ii) Machiner y should be hired from Government Departments or Government approved agencies.

3. Pattern of Assistance.— (i) 50% subsidy on standard hire charges will be provided to farmers at source while booking agriculture machineries on hire from Depar tment of Agriculture. Whenever a Government approved agencies hire the machine, farmer has to pay full cost of hire charges and thereafter 50% subsidy shall be released to farmer after the work is completed and on due application.

(ii) 50% subsidy on standard hire charges shall also be provided for agriculture machineries hired by following agencies.— (a) Sanjivani Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana Ltd. (b) Command Area Development Authority (CADA). (c) Goa Tillari Irrigation Corporation. (d) Department approved Farmers Club, NGO, Village Agro Service Centre. (e) Co-operative Societies. (f) Department approved individuals hiring out machinery at approved rates. (g) Manufacturing Companies custom hiring centres.

(iii) 60% subsidy for transplanting would be provided in case of collective farming for more than 04 Nos. of farmers having less than 1 hectare area of each individual farmers & combined to do transplanting collectively.

(iv) The present rate of standard hire

charges are as shown below:—

(a) Tractor (30 HP and above) : Rs. 500/hour (b) Mini Tractor (Upto 29 HP) : Rs. 200/hour (c) Power tiller (Upto 18HP) : Rs. 200/hour (d) Paddy combine harvester : Rs. 2000/hour (e) Paddy Transplanting :

(a) The subsidy for raising nurser y & transplanting will be maximum of Rs. 15,000/- per hectare for individual farmers as shown at 3(i) & 3(ii) in Pattern of Assistance above and subsidy for raising nurser y and transplanting will be maximum of Rs. 18,000/- per hectare for collective farming as shown in Pattern of Assistance at 3(iii) above.

(b) Incase of individual farmers, there will be a subsidy cap of maximum 2 hectare area & for collective farming, individuals should be having maximum 1 hectare area. However higher area can be part of collective farming but benefit will be restricted to 1 hectare area only.

(v) The subsidy shall be released based on standard hire charges per hour fixed by Department of Agriculture for each type of machine except for transplanter. The standard hire charges would be fixed by a committee nominated by Director of Agriculture with approval of Finance Depar tment & Government. The committee will determine the cost of hire charges. However in case of transplanter, committee will determine raising of nursery & transplanting cost separately.

(vi) The subsidy for tilling soil shall be provided for cultivation of all crops & shall cover all operations.

(vii) No subsidy shall be provided to the farmer who has been provided with the appropriate machine for ploughing, transplanting, weeding and harvesting.

(viii) Wherever the subsidy is provided at source to the farmers at the time of payment of hire charges by Government, the subsidy will be book adjusted.

4. Procedure and guidelines for claim of subsidy.— (a) The agencies who are registered for providing custom hiring to the farmers will have a cap on the number of hours the machine would work in a season/ year. The following machines would work as follows:—

(i) Tractor : 600 Hours per year (ii) Mini tractor : 500 Hours per year (iii) Power tiller/Mini tiller : 500 Hours per year (iv) Transplanting machine : 250 Hours per

season (Kharif & Rabi)

(v) Weeding machine : 250 Hours per

season (Kharif & Rabi) (vi) Harvesting Machine : 350 Hours per season

(Kharif & Rabi)1320 OFFICIAL GAZETTE — GOVT. OF GOA SERIES I No. 23 7TH SEPTEMBER, 2017 Any agency willing to do additional hours would be free to do so, however his bill will not be considered for subsidy.

(b) The agency would be given the requisition for carrying out the work by the concerned taluka level officer (i.e. Mechanical Cultivation Officer or Zonal Agricultural Officer) against which the agency will carry out the work of the farmer.

(c) In case of departmental tractors, subsidy to farmers will be provided at source while accepting advance payment towards standard hire charges.

(d) In case of machiner y provided by agencies like Sanjivani Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana, Goa Tillari Irrigation Development Corporation, C.A.D.A. etc., subsidy will be paid to the agency if machinery is provided to farmers at subsidised rates.

(e) In case of farmer, subsidy will be reimbursed to the farmer upon receipt of claim from farmer and after verification of work and receipts towards work done.

(f) The farmer shall apply for subsidy within a period of three months from the date of execution of ploughing/harvesting/ /transplanting work.

(g) The formats of self declaration, acknowledgement, letter of authority to be furnished along with claims is enclosed.

(h) Annexures forming Annexure-I & Annexure-II for claiming reimbursement of custom service enclosed.

(i) Annexure-III as format of register to be maintained by the custom service provider to ascertain the number of working hours of machinery per season/year.

5. Interpretation.— Issues, if any, arising with regards to interpretation of any clause, word(s), expression(s) or the entire scheme, the decision in this respect shall vest with the Government.

6. Redressal of grievances and disputes.— Grievances or disputes, if any, arising out of implementation of the scheme shall be submitted to and decided by the Minister of Agriculture and the decision taken in this respect shall be final and binding on all concerned.

7. Relaxation.— The Government shall, with prior consultation with the Finance Depar tment relax any or all conditions specified above to meet the objectives of the scheme.

This Notification shall be effective from

immediate effect.

This is issued in supersession to earlier Notification No. 3/1/WS/Mech/13-14/D.Agri/ /224 dated 18th July, 2013 and issues with the concurrence of Finance (Expenditure) Depar tment under U. O. No. 944, dated 04-07-2017.

By order and in the name of the Governor

of Goa.

Ulhas B. Pai Kakode, Director & ex officio

Joint Secretary (Agriculture).

Caranzalem, 30th August, 2017.

Self Declaration

I the undersigned ................................................ r/o ............................. do hereby state & undertake that I have cultivated paddy/pulses/cereals/sugarcane in an area of ............. Ha during year (20.......to 20......) Kharif/Rabi season by way of mutual verbal agreement with the owner/occupant of the property figuring in the enclosed land index under Survey No. ....................

The information provided above is correct and I shall be solely responsible if any of the information furnished above is proved false. Further, I hereby also indemnify the Directorate of Agriculture or their representative from any damage on legal issues that may arise in case the above information is proved to be false.

Dated: Signature of Farmer: .............

Place: Name of Farmer: .....................

Address: ...................................

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Subsidy for Custom Service for hiring Agricultural Machinery

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I, ...................................................................................... (Name of farmer) hereby acknowledge that the work requisitioned by me for Harvesting/Ploughing/Transplanting from ........................................................................

(Name of service provider) has been satisfactorily completed.

Signature of Farmer: ….................................

LETTER OF AUTHORITY

I .…............................................................................ (Name of Farmer) resident of ….................................................... hereby state that I have availed custom service for Harvesting/Ploughing/Transplanting at subsidized hire charges and paid an amount of Rs. ....................... for …................... Hours/Minutes of work or …................... sq. mts area (Incase of transplanting) vide receipt No. ................ dated ..................

In view of the services obtained, I hereby authorize the Director of Agriculture to pay the subsidy on custom service due to me, be paid to …..............................

Date:-

Sign of Farmer:- ..................................

Place:-

Name of Farmer:- ...............................

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ANNEXURE - III

Register to be maintained by Custom Service Providers

Name of the Custom Service Provider:- ...............................................................................................................................

Registration No. of Machine (Allotted by ZAO):- ...............................................................................................................

Registration No. of Machine (Allotted by RTO):- ................................................................................................................

Month and Year:- .........................................................................................................................................................................

Date Name of Farmer Village Area (Sq.mts) Hours work done Receipt No. Nature of work Signature of done/implement driver/owner

used

Signature of Service Provider:- ..........................................

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Notification

3/1/AD(AE)/2017-18/D.Agri/120

1. Short title and commencement.— The scheme shall be called "Promotion of Mechanization in Agriculture" and shall be implemented under the sub component "Assistance for Purchase of Agriculture Machinery & Equipments".

(i) The scheme shall come into force with immediate effect and shall remain in force till withdrawn or as amended.

(ii) The scheme shall cover the State of Goa.

1. Objectives.— (i) Promote mechanization to overcome shor tage and high cost of agricultural labour.

(ii) Enable completion of agricultural

operations in time.

(iii) Reduce cost of cultivation of crops and

increase net returns to farmers.

(iv) Promote coverage of more area under

crops.

(v) Reduce drudgery of farmers specially

farm women.

2. Eligibility for availing assistance.— (i) Individual farmer, registered Group of Farmers, registered agricultural Co-operative Societies of Farmers, Non-Government Organizations, Village Panchayat, Registered Agriculture Development Institutions, Farming Companies involved in commercial cultivation of various crops shall be eligible.

(ii) Farmers should possess Krishi Card of

State of Goa.

(iii) In addition to the above, following criteria shall be required to be met by the applicant to avail benefit for specific machines.

2.(a). Tractor.— (i) The farmer for his individual use of tractor should own atleast 10 ha. of area under agriculture duly supported by ownership documents.

(ii) Farmer shall be required to furnish the name of the driver for tractor along with copy of his valid driving license.

2.(b). Mini Tractor.— (i) The farmer for individual use of mini tractor should own 2 ha. and more area under agriculture duly supported by documents of ownership of land.

(ii) Farmer shall be required to furnish the name of the driver with the copy of the driving license.

2.(c). Power Tiller.— (i) The benefit of subsidy for purchase of Power Tiller for individual use requires the farmer to own agriculture land of 1 ha. and more duly supported by ownership documents.

(ii) Individual farmer owning agriculture land of 3000m² and more shall be eligible for subsidy to buy a power tiller provided that such farmer gives an under taking (self declaration) to hire out their power tiller to other farmers on hire for agriculture operation & needs to register with ZAO/MCO as registered service providers to provide custom service at approved rates and also maintain the register towards the work done as per Annexure–VI.

2.(d). Other machines.— (i) The farmers owning agriculture land of 2000 sq. metre and more are eligible to avail subsidy for purchase of machinery & equipments for items shown at Sr. No. 4 to 9 and Sr. No. 12 to 17 & 46 of Annexure–V.

providing custom ser vice and not to individuals.

(v) Paddy Combine Har vester shall be provided only to Farmers Club/Societies/NGO etc. and not to individuals & will be eligible for only 50% subsidy to all category of farmers/ /groups/societies.

2.(e). Institutions.— (i) Institutions, Societies, NGO's, Farmers Club, etc. shall furnish the registration certificate, resolution of Board, list of board members, copy of Memorandum of Association, mandate form of Bank, letter of authority for paying subsidy to bank, valid driving license of the person who would drive the tractor or mini tractor or paddy combine.

(ii) Only registered Farmers Societies, Farmers Clubs or NGO's shall be eligible for availing assistance for Paddy Combine Harvester.

Sr. Type of machinery/equipments Pattern of assis- tance (General, No. SC, ST, Groups,

Societies etc.)

A. Tractor, Mini tractor, Power 50% tiller, Mini tiller & Paddy Combine Harvestor1326 OFFICIAL GAZETTE — GOVT. OF GOA SERIES I No. 23 7TH SEPTEMBER, 2017 B. All other agricultural machinery 75%

& equipments & attachments/ /implements

C. The items used as attachments/ 50%

/implements to other machines shown at Sr. No. 18 to 34, 43, 45, 47 of Annexure-V

(ii) If the machine or equipment is purchased by obtaining loan from bank or any other financial institutions, the subsidy shall be released to the bank or such agency.

(iii) In case the farmer has purchased the machine or equipment at his cost the subsidy shall be released to the farmer.

(iv) In case a farmer is financially poor with annual income of less than Rs. 3,60,000/- and furnishes Income Certificate from competent authority to this effect, then the farmer will be eligible to purchase machine or equipments by availing "At source subsidy facility". In such case the subsidy shall be paid to the dealer provided farmer pays his/her share of cost (cost price-subsidy) to the dealer and also furnishes Letter of Authority to that effect. All such cases shall require prior approval of Director of Agriculture.

(v) The subsidy shall be paid as per the standard cost of the machine fixed or as per the actual cost (excluding Taxes) whichever is less.

(vi) The cost of machine or equipment over & above the standard cost if any shall be fully borne by the farmer.

(vii) Subsidy admissible from Government of India Schemes including RKVY shall be adjusted within the total subsidy as above and only the balance subsidy shall be paid from State Sector.

(viii) One primary tillage attachment shall required to be purchased along with purchase of tractor or mini tractor and only af ter satisfactory utilization (as reported by ZAO) additional attachment shall be approved for purchase.

(ix) In case of failure of the beneficiary to provide machines on hire as per his/her self declaration (Undertaking), then the subsidy paid shall be summarily withdrawn and recovered as revenue recovery.

(x) The machine should be purchased from approved dealers registered with the Department of Agriculture only. If any such machine is purchased from outside State, in such cases the beneficiary shall obtain from manufacturer/dealer a letter of assurance of after sales service/Warranty & Guarantee terms for the machine being purchased and also obtain quotation from dealer in Goa and outside State dealer for comparison and confirming reasonability of rates. Any disputes arising af ter sales, service/Warranty & Guarantee terms for machine purchased from outside State shall be sole responsibility of the beneficiary for settling the disputes with the respective dealer.

(xi) No purchase of new machine shall be approved to any individual if the previous machine purchased with Government assistance has not completed its utility period of 10 years for tractors, mini tractors, paddy transplanter (riding type) and paddy combine harvester and 6 years for all other machines/ /equipments/implements. However the Service Providers of tractors registered with the department for providing custom service would become eligible for purchase of new tractor upon completion of 10,000 hours of work irrespective of the number of years completed since the date of its purchase.

(xii) A beneficiary purchasing Tractor will not be eligible for purchase of Mini tractor, Power tiller & Mini tiller for a period of 10 years or 10,000 hours whichever is reached later.

(xiii) A beneficiary purchasing Mini tractor will not be eligible for purchase of Tractor Power tiller & Mini tiller for a period of 10 years or 8000 hours whichever is reached later.

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(xv) A beneficiary purchasing Mini tiller will not be eligible for purchase of Tractor, Mini tractor & Power tiller for a period of 6 years or 2500 hours whichever is reached later.

(xvi) The standard cost of machines shall be fixed by the technical committee constituted by the Department.

4. Guidelines and procedure.— (i) The

scheme shall be co-ordinated by Agriculture

Engineering Section.

(ii) The applicant shall apply to Zonal Agriculture Officer in prescribed application form in Annexure-I along with abstract of krishi card, quotation of the machinery from dealer/authorized dealer with other details as listed in Annexure–II.

(iii) The applicant shall fulfill the eligibility conditions of the scheme. Individual farmer shall not obtain NOC from any other individual to fulfill the required eligible area criteria for purchase of machinaries/equipments under subsidy. The certificate for not having purchased such machiner y/equipment/ /attachment for last 6 years and 10 years for tractor, mini tractor, combine harvestor, paddy transplanter (riding).

(iv) The NGO's, Groups, registered farmer Societies, Farmers Club, etc. will be eligible for subsidy for maximum of two tractors, two mini-tractor, two Power tillers & 5 Nos. of other agricultural equipments/attachments. Additional number of equipments/attach- ments would be allowed by the department upon verification of full utilization of allotted machine.

(v) The subsidy for paddy combine shall be provided only to groups, registered agricul- tural co-opearative societies, Village Agro Ser vice Centres etc. & not for individual farmers. It would be purchased only with prior approval of Government and shall fulfill the criteria for eligibility of group/Institutions.

(vi) In case of loan from the Bank or other organization, loan account details and name of financer shall be indicated in the prescribed application form along with copy of first page of loan account book.

(vii) The registered Agricultural Co- -operative Societies/Panchayat/Registered Group, NGO desirous of providing Tractor, Mini tractor, Power tiller etc. on custom service in the village should provide a copy of registration certificate of society, copy of Memorandum of Association, transaction in bank account, quotation, resolution of the Board/Organization/Governing committee, authorized signator y for doing the transactions, an undertaking of providing service to the farmers at prescribed rate.

(viii) The proposal for purchase of machinery like tractor, mini tractor, power tiller, mini tiller, paddy transplanter, combine har vester etc. shall be verified by Zonal Agriculture Officer and respective Mechanical Cultivation Officer & forward to the Director of Agriculture through Assistant Director (Agriculture Engineering) for administrative Approval. Upon approval by Director of Agriculture, the approval shall be conveyed by Zonal Agriculture Officer to the beneficiary. For all other cases, administrative approval shall be accorded by the concerned Zonal Agriculture Officer within financial limits (i.e subsidy upto Rs. 1.5 lakhs) delegated to them.

(ix) The Zonal Agriculture Officer shall submit the completed claims to the District Agriculture Office (North/South) as per guidelines and checklist for expenditure sanction. The expenditure sanction shall be issued by the District Agriculture Office (Nor th/South) upto Rs. 3 Lakhs and expenditure sanction above Rs. 3 Lakhs shall be issued by Director of Agriculture & the assistance admissible shall be drawn & paid through concerned District Agriculture Office (North/South). The payment shall be done through ECS mode of payment OR any other mode as specified by the Finance Department of the State.

(x) The machinery/equipment/attachment

subsidized under scheme shall be verified

annually for its utility by the concerned Zonal

Agriculture Officer and copy of verification/

/inspection repor t to be placed in the

respective file of the beneficiary.

(xi)Any machinery/equipments/attach- ments shall be purchased only from dealers registered with the Department of Agriculture. Purchase of any such machinery from outside State, specific approval shall be required to be obtained in advance.

(xii) The standard price of items that are not listed in the circular but are eligible for subsidy shall be specifically examined on case to case basis by the technical committee formed by department prior to according administrative approval.

(xiii) The subsidy would be restricted to the percentage stipulated for a particular machine based on standard cost or the actual cost (excluding Taxes) whichever is less.

(xiv) The case where the machines were purchased in previous year the subsidy would be paid as per the standard price applicable for that particular year.

(xv) The Zonal Agriculture Officer shall ensure that the Tractor/Mini Tractor/Trolley is duly registered in the local registration Office and shall enclose the copy of registration for claiming the subsidy.

(xvi) Wherever the machine has been purchased for hiring out to the other farmers, the Zonal Agriculture Officer shall duly register such machine in the concerned office and display its availability to other farmers.

(xvii) Zonal Agriculture Officer's are empowered to consider and accord Ex-post facto administrative approval for machinery/ /equipments/attachments l purchased costing upto Rs. 10,000/- & below (Excl. GST), but to ensure that the approval is given within the allotted target.

(xviii) Any machiner y/equipments/ attachments approved by Ministr y of Agriculture, Government of India shall be

considered for subsidy purpose.

(xix) For machinery/equipments/attach- ments valued more than Rs. 5000/- (invoice cost Excluding taxes), photograph of beneficiary along with purchased machinery with visibly engraved machinery registration number given by ZAO shall be enclosed.

(xx) Farmers/individuals who has purchased tractors/mini tractor/power tiller for own use can also provide custom service to the farmer provided that they should furnish self declaration (Undertaking) for such work to ZAO/MCO and should get their machines registered with the department for providing custom service.

(xxi) Machiner y purchased under Government assistance shall not be taken outside State for any purpose without obtaining prior approval from Director of Agriculture.

(xxii) Subsidy amount of Rs. 500/- and less for the machinery/equipments purchased by the beneficiary will not be considered.

(xxiii) The competent authority for issuing road tax exemption certificate for tractor, mini tractor and trailer will be the Assistant Director (Agriculture Engineering) of this Directorate.

(xxiv) Individual beneficiary shall be eligible for subsidy for any one of the machine amongst tractor or mini tractor and power tiller or mini tiller.

(xxv) Tractor/Mini tractor/Trailer or any other road-worthy agriculture machinery purchased through department subsidy shall be compulsorily registered with the State Government registering authority (Transport Department).

(xxvi) The list of revised Annexures (I to VI)

are enclosed.

5. Relaxation.— The Government shall be empowered to relax any or all clauses or conditions of the scheme in genuine cases. However in such cases, release of financial assistance will be considered only with the approval of Finance (Exp.) Department.

6. Interpretation.— If any question arises regarding interpretation of any clause, word, expression of the scheme, the decision shall lie with the Government, which shall be final and binding on all concerned.

7. Redressal of grievances and disputes.— Grievances if any, arising out of the implementation of this scheme, shall be heard and decided by the Minister for Agriculture and the decision of the Minister for Agriculture in this regard shall be final and binding on all

concerned.

This Notification will be effective from immediate effect. This issues with the concurrence of the Finance (Expenditure) Department vide their U. O. No. 957 dated 04-07-2017.

By order and in the name of Governor

of Goa.

Ulhas B. Pai Kakode, Director & ex officio

Joint Secretary (Agriculture).

Caranzalem, 30th August, 2017.

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ANNEXURE – I

1. Application form as prescribed by the

department.

ANNEXURE – II

Documents required for Assistance under scheme sub component "Assistance for purchase of Agriculture Machinery & Equipments''.

1. Quotation from the dealer for machinery/ /equipment/attachment proposed to be purchased.

2. Abstract of Krishi Card.

3. Certificate of not having purchase tractor, mini tractor, combine harvester, paddy transplanter (ridding type) for last ten years & other machinery/ /equipment/attachment for last six years by respective individual applicant (Annexure-III).

4. Self declaration as enclosed in Annexure-IV.

5. Incase the machine is purchased from outside Goa, than Undertaking from the dealer that service shall be provided in Goa and also quotation from the dealer in Goa and outside Goa for comparison. Incase if the machine is not available in Goa than the machine may be purchased from outside State from the authorised dealer provided the dealer gives service after sales and the certificate stating that there is no authorised dealer in Goa.

6. The registered Agricultural Co-operative Societies/Panchayat/registered group/NGOs etc. desires of providing tractor, mini tractor, power tiller service in village should provide a copy of registration certificate of society, copy of Articles of Association, transaction in bank account, quotation, resolution of the board/organization/governing committee, authorised signatory for doing the transactions, an self declaration (Undertaking) of providing service to the farmer of corresponding village/villages.

7. Tractor/Mini tractor/combine harvester

purchases to have valid driving license.

8. Registration certificate for tractor/mini tractor

from the concerned transport authority.

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ANNEXURE-III

CERTIFICATE BY ZONAL AGRICULTURE OFFICER

It is certified that the applicant Shri/Smt. …......….......... having Krishi Card No. ........................ has not purchased ……………………………… (Name of machine/attachment/equipment) for last six/ten years.

It is certified that the applicant belongs to SC/

/ST/Woman/General category.

Certified that the applicant is a bonafide farmer/

/Societies engaged in agriculture work.

(Zonal Agriculture Officer)

(Seal)1330 OFFICIAL GAZETTE — GOVT. OF GOA SERIES I No. 23 7TH SEPTEMBER, 2017 ANNEXURE–IV

Self Declaration

I/We ............................................. resident of .............................................. represented by ........................................ (in case of organization) here by state and affirm that the......................................... (Type of machinery) being purchased by me and for which the subsidy is requested by me from the Department of Agriculture, Government of Goa, shall be used exclusively for agriculture purpose by me in my property located at .............................. and/or for hiring out to farmer's in .................................. Villages.

I hereby agree to use the machinery in my field and to hire to needy farmers for at least next 6 years/ /10 years from the date of purchase of machinery for Agricultural use. In the default of same, I undertake that the subsidy paid to me/us by the Department of Agriculture shall be repaid back to the Government failing which I authorize the Director of Agriculture or his representative to recover the subsidy paid to me as recovery of Government Revenue.

Photo of farmer

Dated:- Signature of Farmer:- .............

Place:- Name of Farmer:- ....................

Address:- ..................................

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ANNEXURE–V

Assistance for Purcahse of Agriculture Machinery and Equipments

Sr. No List of Eligible Machineries/Equipments/

/Attachments

1 Tractor 30 HP & above with at least one attach-

ment (mould board plough/discplough, culti-

vator etc. except disc harrow and rotovator.)

2 Mini Tractor up to 29 HP with at least one

attachment

3 Power Tiller (Below 18 HP)

4 Weed Cutter

5 Mini weeder/tiller

6 Small sugarcane harvesters

7 Self propelled or power driven paddy reaper

8 Plant protection equipments–Spray pump

9 Groundnut decorticator

10 Paddy transplanter

11 Combine harvester (case basis)

12 Coconut/Areca-nut de-husker/peeler

13 Mechanized shredder for composting/chaff

Cutter

14 Cashew juice extractor

15 Inter cultivation machines

16 Primary farm processing & value addition

equipments such as (a) Pulper (b) Drier (c)

Cocum cutter (d) Pulveriser (e) Pepper seperator

(f) Slurry pumps (g) Polisher

17 Crop thresher

18 Tractor operated shredder

19 Disc plough

20 M. B. plough

21 Ridger

22 Disc harrow

23 Cultivator

24 Clod crusher

25 Sugarcane stubble shaver

26 Laser leveler

27 Rotary weeder (slasher)

28 Post hole digger

29 Multi crop seed drill

30 Sugarcane cutter planter

31 Levelling blade (front or rear)

32 Harvesting attachments

33 Tractor or power tiller trailer

34 Rotovator for tractor

35 Telescopic Pruner

36 Bullock drawn groundnut digger

37 Groundnut cleaner cum grader

38 Fruit harvester

39 Manually operated/Bullock drawn equipments

40 Harvesting pole/Alluminium ladder

41 Coconut/Arecanut tree climber

42 Paddy seeder

43 Lugged wheels/drum cage wheels

44 Wheel barrow

45 Mulching equipment

46 Self Propelled earth auger

47 Attachment to weed cutter – Pruner

Note:- Any other machinery/equipments/attachments that are not listed in the Annexure but useful to the farmers shall be specifically examined by technical committee of Department & recommend for their purchase only

if found suitable to local field & crop condition.

ANNEXURE-VI

INSPECTION REPORT

This is to certify that the beneficiary Shri./Smt. .............................................. resident of ............................................. has purchased below mentioned machinaries/equipments/attachments during the year ...................... & is duly registered in this zonal office.

Sr. No. Details of Agriculture machinery/ Quantity Office Registration Name of Dealer /Equipment/Attachment (Including

Engine No., Chassis No. & Model No.)

number

The above machinery is found to be working satisfactorily during the time of inspection.

Inspected by

(Signature of Asst. Agriculture Officer) (Signature of Zonal Agriculture Officer)

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Department of Information and Publicity — Notification

DI/INF/Scheme/Ex-gratia-2017

Government of Goa is pleased to notify a scheme to provide compassionate assistance by way of Ex-Gratia financial assistance upto Rs. five lakhs to journalist and or their family member as the case may be in case of permanent disability or serious medical ailment rendering them incapable of earning a livelihood and for the family on account of death of Journalist while in service/missing.

I. Short title and commencement.— (1) The Scheme will be called as "the Goa Ex-Gratia Compassionate Assistance to the dependents of Journalist Scheme, 2017".

(2) It shall come into force from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette and shall remain in force upto 31st March, 2020.

(3) The object of the scheme is to assist the journalist and or his family in tiding over the emergent situation resulting from the permanent disability, serious medical ailment to the journalist or on account of death of the journalist by giving financial assistance.

II. Definitions.— In this Scheme, unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) "Family Member" means his/her wife/husband as the case may be, minor sons, unmarried daughters, major sons who is dependent upon the journalist;

(b) "Government" means the Government

of Goa;

(c) "Journalist" means any journalist who is either a working journalist as defined in the Working Journalists and other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Ser vice) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955 (45 of 1955), as amended from time to time and is a full-time Journalist and does not engage himself in any other activity and earns his livelihood through his journalistic activities with an newspaper, news agency or news channel.

(d) "Photographer" means who is either a working photographer as defined in the Working Journalists and other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Ser vice) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955 (45 of 1955), as amended from time to time and is a full-time photographer and does not engage himself in any other activity and earns his livelihood through his photographic activities1332 OFFICIAL GAZETTE — GOVT. OF GOA SERIES I No. 23 7TH SEPTEMBER, 2017 with an newspaper or news agency or news channel and so approved by the screening committee under this scheme;

(e) "Media organization" means any print or electronic media organization, which disseminates 100% news on daily basis as well as print publications like weekly, monthly or other periodicity, printed and published from the State in case of print media and disseminate from the State in case of Electronic Media.

Words and phrases used in this scheme but not defined shall have the same meaning as assigned to them in the Goa State Media Representatives Accreditation Rules, 2012.

III. Scope of the Scheme.— The Department of Information and Publicity shall disburse the relief on receipt of application from the journalists and/or his dependent family member under this scheme.

IV. Eligibility.— For being eligible under this

scheme, the journalist:

(a) Shall be based in Goa with a continuous residence of not less than 15 years and a certificate issued by Mamlatdar of the Taluka to that effect should be produced.

(b) He must be working for a Media

Organization as defined under the scheme.

V. Procedure to file the application under the scheme.— The applicant or his family members, as the case may be who is eligible under this scheme shall file an application indicating all the requisite details alongwith the required documents addressed to the Director, Depar tment of Information and Publicity, 3rd floor, Udyog Bhavan, Panaji-Goa.

VI. Sanctioned and Disbursement Proce- dure.— There shall be a Scrutiny Committee for scrutinizing the application received under the scheme and to recommend the disbursement of the ex gratia relief to journalists/family under the Chairmanship of the Joint Director of Information and Publicity and consisting of President (Goa Union of Journalists 'GUJ', President), an eminent personality from the field of Journalism and Under Secretary (Finance Expenditure) as members. The applicants must satisfy the Committee that they fulfill the eligibility criteria of the scheme and for this purpose, the Committee may direct the applicant to produce additional documents in support of the application if required or desired. This Committee shall decide the applications under the schemes and recommended to the State Government accordingly.

VII. Quantum of Ex-gratia compensation.— The grant of ex-gratia relief on account of death/injury caused to human life during the coverage/on field with the following descriptions:

Sr. No. Category of cases Rate of ex-gratia relief

a. Death of Journalist Rs. 5,00,000/- to the

family

b. Permanent disability Rs. 5,00,000/- to the

rendering the journalist journalist incapable of earning a livelihood (handicapness of 40% or more)

c. Grievous injury (an injury Rs. 2,00,000/- to the which may not result in journalist or his/her permanent disability but family requires hospitalization for more than one month for recovering from the injury

d. Major medical ailments Up to Rs. 2 lakhs to

the journalist or family. This would be subject to the medical expenditure not being covered under DDSSY of the State Government or any other insurance/ /Health schemes, etc.

e. Minor Injury (an injury Actual cost of treat- which is of First Aid or ment or upto Rs. minor in nature or 50,000/- whichever which does not require is lower to the hospitalization for duration journalist or his/her more than 3 days her family1333 OFFICIAL GAZETTE — GOVT. OF GOA SERIES I No. 23 7TH SEPTEMBER, 2017 The grant of compensation as referred above

shall be subject to the following conditions:

(i) Production of post-mortem report in case of death; certificate in case of grievous injury, partial and permanent disability and pres- cription slip as well as verification of actual cost of medical treatment in case of simple injury or major medical ailments from the concerned Medical Officer/Health Officer/ /Hospital.

(ii) Requisite documents shall be submitted along with the application like Resident Certificate of the Journalist issued by the Mamlatdar, certificate issued by the Editor of the media organisation stating that the concerned Journalist is employee of the concerned media organisation etc.

(iii) Copy of First Information Report (FIR) of incident from Police Department, wherever required.

(iv) Photographs of killed/injured person(s) duly attested by the Police/Medical Officers or Health Officer as the case may be.

(v) The claims/recommendation found genuine during scrutiny shall be finally approved by the Director, Information and Publicity and thereafter to be recommended to the State Government for sanction.

(vi) The Department may release upto 20% of the amount of relief prescribed for human loss/permanent and par tial disability/ /grievous injury/major ailment on receipt of reports as interim relief immediately to the family of the deceased/injured/sick journalist after due verification in anticipation of formal sanction without delay. The balance amount will be released after receipt of the complete relief claim.

(vii) This ex-gratia compensation shall be applicable only in respect of death/injuries/ /major ailment occurred on or af ter the notification of scheme in the Official Gazette.

8. Exception.— Notwithstanding anything contained in this scheme, the scrutiny committee if it feels necessary in very special/ /exceptional cases may recommend higher level of assistance or suggest any deviation of the guidelines or special assistance for approval of the State Government.

9. The expenditure on this account shall be

debited to the following budget head:

Demand No: 56

Major head:

2220—Information and Publicity; 60—Other; 103—Press Information Services; 03—Financial Assistance in Indigent

(Plan);

50—Other Charges.

X. Relaxation.— The Director, Department of Information and Publicity may relax any provision of this scheme af ter taking Government approval if need arises.

XI. General.— Grant of financial assistance under this scheme to any working Journalist is not a matter of right. Assistance would be extended depending on the committee's satisfaction regarding the eligibility/merits of the cases and approval of the State Government and the financial resources available for the purpose. The State Government reserves the right to reject or accept any application/claim without assigning any reasons thereof.

12. Interpretation.— If any question arise as to the interpretation of any of the provisions of this scheme or if there is dispute relating to fulfilment of conditions, then the decision of the Director, Department of Information and Publicity therein shall be final and binding on all.

This issue with the concurrence of the Finance (Expenditure) Department vide their U. O. No. 1697 dated 02-08-2017.

T. S. Sawant, Director & ex officio Joint

Secretary (Information and Publicity).

Panaji, 30th August, 2017.

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