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Govt de-reserves 79 more items from SSI sector list

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New Delhi, Feb. 8 The Government has de-reserved 79 more items from the list of items exclusively manufactured by the SSI sector. These cover electrical goods, such as domestic voltage stabilisers, exhaust fans, electric irons, storage water heaters, chokes, starters, bells and amplifiers, and assorted items from writing pens, paper napkins, toilet paper rolls to buckets and hard boiled sugar candy.

The other major list of de-reserved items are dyestuffs including basic dyes, acid dyes, naphthols, reactive dyes and fast colour bases.

With this, only 35 items would remain in the list of items which can be exclusively manufactured in the Small Scale Sector.

“The pace for de-reservation of the items has accelerated since 2005. Number of items de-reserved in 2005, 2006 and 2007 were 108, 180 and 212 respectively. Thus, from 2005 onwards Government has de-reserved 500 items and only 114 items were remaining for exclusive manufacture in the SSI sector. The Government has recently decided to de-reserve another 79 items,” an official statement said here.

With this de-reservation only 35 items will remain in the list of the items which can be exclusively manufactured in the small scale sector. These span food & allied items, wood & wood products, paper & paper product, plastic product (including injection moulded thermo plastic products), organic chemicals, drugs & drug intermediates, chemicals & chemical products, glass & ceramics, mechanical engineering excluding transport equipment, and electrical machines, appliances & apparatus.

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