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INVESTMENT INTO MACHINERY IN SMALL SCALE SECTOR

* The investment ceilings in plan and machinery in small scale and ancillary industrial undertakings has been fixed at Rs.60 lakh and Rs.75 lakh, respectively.
* In the case of small scale units that undertake to export atleast 30% of the annual production by the end of the third year from the date of commencement of commercial production, the limit of investment in fixed assets in plant and machinery has been fixed at Rs.75 lakh.

LIST OF INDUSTRIES RESERVED FOR PUBLIC SECTOR:

* Arms and ammunition and allied items of defence equipment, defence aircraft and warships
* Coal and Lignite

* Atomic energy
* Mineral Oils
* Mining of iron, manganese and chrome ore, gypsum, sulfur, gold and diamond
* Mining of copper, lead, zinc, tin, molybdenum and wolfarm
* Minerals specified in the schedule to the Atomic Energy
* Railway Transport

ANNEXURE II

COMPULSORY INDUSTRIAL LICENSING

Sugar Cane sugar, refined Other sugar, including centrifugal sugar Animal fats and oils Animal fats and oils partly or wholly hydrogenated Edible mixtures or preparations of animal fats and oils Non-edible mixtures or preparations of animal fats and oils.

List of Industries for Automatic Approval of Foreign Technology Agreement/ 51% Foreign Equity Participation / 100% Foreign Equity Participation by Non-Resident Indians And Overseas Corporations Predominantly held by Non-Resident Indians:

* All food processing industries other than milk food, malted foods & flour, but excluding the items reserved for small scale sector.
* Sausages and similar products, of meat or meat offal; food preparations based on these products.
* Other prepared or preserved meat or meat offal
* Extracts and juices of meat, fish on crustaceans, molasses or other aquatic invertebrates
* Prepared or preserved fish
* Crustaceans, molasses and other aquatic invertebrates, prepared or preserved
* Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or other substances) or otherwise prepared.
* Tapioca and substitutes therefore prepared from starch, in the form of flakes, grains, pearls, siftings or in similar forms.
* Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products; cereals, other than maize (corn), in grain form, pre-cooked or otherwise prepared.
* Tomatoes prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid.
* Mushrooms and truffles, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid.
* Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, frozen.
* Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen.
* Fruit, nuts, fruit-peel and other parts of plants, preserved by sugar (drained, glace or crystallised).
* Fruit jellies, marmalades, fruit or nut pure and fruit or nut pastes, being cooked preparations, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter.
* Fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, otherwise prepared or preserved, whether or not, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or spirit, not elsewhere specified or included.
* Fruit juices (including grape must) and vegetable juices, unfermented and not containing added spirit, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter.
* Sunflower-seed, safflower or cotton-seed oil, extracted and upgraded
Other fixed vegetable oils (minor), extracted and upgraded
* Soya texture proteins: Protein concentrates and texturised protein substances of soya
* Soya protein isolates: Protein isolates of soya
* Soya protein concentrates: Protein concentrates and textureised protein substances of soya
* Other specialised products of soyabean: Soya sauce
* Winterised and deodourised refined Soyabean oil: Refined soya been oil, winterised and deodourised.

Source: Food Processing Industries in India 1995-96