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Panaji, 7th September, 2017 (Bhadra 16, 1939)

SERIES I No. 23

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

RNI No. GOAENG/2002/6410

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

Suggestions are welcomed on e-mail: dir–[email protected]

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it is withdrawn or as amended.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.

Department

Notification/Order

Subject

Pages

1.a. Agriculture

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Agriculture.

b. —do—

Not.- 3/1/AD(AE)/2017-18/

Promotion of Mechanization in Agriculture

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/D.Agri/120

Scheme.

2. Information and Publicity

Not.- DI/INF/Scheme

The Goa Ex-Gratia Compassionate Assistance

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Dir. & ex officio Jt. Secretary

Ex-gratia-2017

to the Dependents of Journalist Scheme, 2017.

INDEX

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.

NOTE

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(ii) Machinery 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 Department

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

(d) Paddy combine harvester : Rs. 2000/hour

(e) Paddy Transplanting

(a) The subsidy for raising nursery &

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 nursery 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 Department &

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)

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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.

to farmers will be provided at source while

accepting advance payment towards

standard hire charges.

(d) In case of machinery 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

Department 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)

Department 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: ...................................

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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 – I

(To be submitted by the service provider)

Statement of claim for reimbursement of Custom Service for the year .................

Name of Service Provider:- ..........................................................

Period of Claim:- .....................................

Season:- Kharif / Rabi

Nature of Work:-Ploughing/Harvesting/Transplanting

Type of Agriculture Machinery:- Tractor/Mini Tractor/Power Tiller/Paddy Transplanter/Combine Harvester

Sr. No Name of the farmer

Village

Receipt No.

Date of work done

Area

Total work completed

Amount

Subsidy

Remark

(Sq.mts)

in terms of Hours/Area

realized (Rs.)

amount

due

CERTIFICATE

I, the undersigned, Shri/Smt ............................................................ (Name of authorised person), on behalf of ....................................................................................

(Name of Organisation/Society/Club) hereby state that the harvesting/ploughing/transplanting work of the farmers have been carried out to their

full satisfaction and the time/area shown in the Annexure is the actual time used for harvesting/ploughing/transplanting work of the respective

farmer.

In case the said hours or the actual claim is found to be false, the excess amount shall be deducted from the claims submitted by us.

Date:

Seal and Signature of the service provider

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ANNEXURE – II

(To be submitted by the Zonal Agriculture Officer/Mechanical Cultivation Officer)

Statement of claim for reimbursement of Custom Service for the year .................

Name of Service Provider:- ..........................................................

Period of Claim: .....................................

Season:- Kharif/Rabi

Nature of Work:- Ploughing/Harvesting/Transplanting

Type of Agriculture Machinery:- Tractor/Mini Tractor/Power Tiller/Paddy Transplanter/Combine Harvester

Sr. No Name of the farmer

Village

Receipt No.

Date of work done

Area

Total work completed

Total

Remark

(Sq.mts)

in terms of Hours/Area

recommen- recommen-

ded eligible ded eligible

hours/area

subsidy

amount (Rs.)

CERTIFICATE

1. Certified that the work in respect of above farmers have been satisfactorily completed by the service provider and an amount of

Rs. ...................................... (Rs..................................in words) is recommended for sanction towards the ploughing/transplanting/harvesting work to be paid

to the farmers/service provider.

2. It is certified that the original bills/receipts of the farmers and related documents are duly verified, certified and are retained in this office for

records.

Signature of the ZAO/MCO : ...................................

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ANNEXURE - III

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:- ..........................................

—————

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 shortage 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.

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(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 undertaking (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.

(ii) Manually operated equipments

including manually operated sprayers &

gatoor sprayers & the items shown from

Sr. No. 35 to 42 & 44 of Annexure–V will be

provided to farmers for agriculture purpose

having 500 sq. metre or more of agriculture

land.

(iii) The items used as attachment to main

machines shown at Sr. No. 18 to 34, 43, 45, 47

of Annexure–V shall be provided only 50%

subsidy to all category of farmers/groups/

/societies who own main machines purchased

through subsidy from the department.

(iv) Paddy Transplanter of walk behind type

will be provided to individual farmer owning

atleast 4000m² of paddy field for self use and

to hire out to needy farmers & where as riding

type transplanter shall be provided only

to Farmer Clubs/Societies/NGO etc. for

providing custom service and not to

individuals.

(v) Paddy Combine Harvester 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.

(iii) Farmer club/societies/institutions etc.

need not possess their own land. However

2/3^rd members out of minimum ten members

of such agencies, groups, societies etc. shall

possess krishi card with minimum agricul-

tural area of 1000m² each or more for purchase

of paddy combine harvester, paddy trans-

planter, tractor, mini tractor, power tiller etc.

& no members of the groups shall be in

possession of any of these machines in their

individual capacity.

(iv) Only approved models of machine

would be assisted by Government.

3. Pattern of Assistance.— (i) The

ammended pattern of assistance is as shown

below:—

Sr.

Type of machinery/equipments

Pattern of assis-

No.

tance (General,

SC, ST, Groups,

Societies etc.)

A. Tractor, Mini tractor, Power

50%

tiller, Mini tiller & Paddy

Combine Harvestor

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B. All other agricultural machinery

75%

& equipments & attachments/

/implements

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 after

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 after 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.

(xiv)A beneficiary purchasing Power tiller

will not be eligible for purchase of Tractor, Mini

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tractor & Mini tiller for a period of 6 years or

4000 hours whichever is reached later.

(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 machinery/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

Service 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

signatory

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

harvester 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

(North/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.

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(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 report 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

machinery/equipments/

attachments approved by Ministry 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)

Machinery

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.

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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)

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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:- ..................................

————

ANNEXURE–V

Assistance for Purcahse of Agriculture Machinery

and Equipments

Sr. No

List of Eligible Machineries/Equipments/

/Attachments

Tractor 30 HP & above with at least one attach-

ment (mould board plough/discplough, culti-

vator etc. except disc harrow and rotovator.)

Mini Tractor up to 29 HP with at least one

attachment

Power Tiller (Below 18 HP)

Weed Cutter

Mini weeder/tiller

Small sugarcane harvesters

Self propelled or power driven paddy reaper

Plant protection equipments–Spray pump

Groundnut decorticator

Paddy transplanter

Combine harvester (case basis)

Coconut/Areca-nut de-husker/peeler

Mechanized shredder for composting/chaff

Cutter

Cashew juice extractor

Inter cultivation machines

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

Crop thresher

Tractor operated shredder

Disc plough

M. B. plough

Ridger

Disc harrow

Cultivator

Clod crusher

Sugarcane stubble shaver

Laser leveler

Rotary weeder (slasher)

Post hole digger

Multi crop seed drill

Sugarcane cutter planter

Levelling blade (front or rear)

Harvesting attachments

Tractor or power tiller trailer

Rotovator for tractor

Telescopic Pruner

Bullock drawn groundnut digger

Groundnut cleaner cum grader

Fruit harvester

Manually operated/Bullock drawn equipments

Harvesting pole/Alluminium ladder

Coconut/Arecanut tree climber

Paddy seeder

Lugged wheels/drum cage wheels

Wheel barrow

Mulching equipment

Self Propelled earth auger

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.

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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

number

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

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)

———ttt———

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;

is either a working journalist as defined in the

Working Journalists and other Newspaper

Employees (Conditions of Service) 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 Service) 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 activities

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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, Department 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 family

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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

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 partial 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 after 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 after 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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