In exercise of the powers conferred by Clauses (c), (d) and (e) of Section 36 of the Orissa Forest Act, 1972 (Orissa Act 14 of 1972), the State Government do hereby make the following Rules to control and regulate the granting of licenses to bamboo artisans including Co-operative Societies and felling and removing bamboos from protected forests located within the vicinity of the place where they are ordinarily residents, for purposes of trade namely.

1. Shot Title, Extent and Commencement-

(1) The rules may be called. The Supply of Bamboos to Artisans including Co-operative Societies (Orissa) Rules. 1980.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette

2. Definitions - In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires:

I. Act means the Orissa Forest Act, 1972 (Orissa Act 14 of 1972);
II. Bamboo- Artisans means a person who earns his livelihood or a Co-operative Society, the members of which earn their livelihood by making baskets, Kullas, tatties, variety of containers and other articles made of bamboos for sale to general public;
III. Family means the members of the family of bamboo artisans:
IV. Form means a form appended to these rules;
V. Licenses means any individual member or a family or Society us registered under Rule 3 and is on possession of the license book;
VI. Permit means a permit issued by an authority competent to issue the same under these rules;
VII. Schedule means the Schedule appended to these rules:
VIII. Society means a Bamboo Artisans' Co-operative Society registered under the Orissa Co-operative Societies Act, 1062;
IX. Value means value of bamboos as per rate prescribed in the Schedule appended to these rules;
X. Vicinity means the area within the territorial Forest Range; but does not include a plantation area;
XI. Working month means all the months of the calendar year except months of July, August and September;
XII. Working season means the period between 1st October to 30th June;

All words expressions used in these rules but not defined the same meaning as are respectively assigned to them in the Act.

3. Registration and License-

(1) All the member of family or Society desirous of obtaining bamboos from protected forests for manufacture of bamboo products for purposes pf trade shall be required to register themselves in Forest Range Office within whose jurisdiction they are ordinarily residents.
(2) The application for registration shall be in Form No.1 and shall be accompanied by an identity Certificate in Form No.II issued by the Sarpanch of the Grama Panchayat or Ward Mem ber of Municipality or Notified Area Council, as the case may be, of the area where the applicant is ordinarily resident (in case the applicant of a society, the identity Certificate in respect of all members of the Society shall be furnished).
(3) All applications received from members of family and Societies shall be serially entered in a register in From No.III by the concerned territorial Forest Range Officer. The applications and identity Certificates shall be filled in the Range Office.
(4) After registering the application the Range Officer shall issue a printed license book in Form No.IV to the licensee from whom the cost of license book amounting to rupees two shall be realized and credited to forest revenue. An used-up license book when returned by the licensee, shall be replaced by a new one, free of cost, by the Range Officer.
(5) After registering the application the Range Officer shall issue a printed license book amounting to rupees two shall be realized and credited to forest revenue. An used-up license book when returned by the licensee, shall be replaced of license book shall be maintained in the Range Office in Form No.V,

4. permit and Scale of Supply -

(1) Subject to such orders or directions of the State Government of the State Government and subject to availability in the protected forest, a licensee may be granted permit during the working season up to five hundred and forty Salia bamboos.
(2) Not more than sixty Salia bamboos shall be permitted for removal in a working month under permit and not more than twenty bamboos shall be allowed at a time.
(3) The bamboo to be cut and removed under such permit shall not be less than two years old.
(4) The Forester or any Forest Officer superior to him having jurisdiction over the area can issue such permits on realization of value and presentation of the license book by the licensee. Each issue of permit shall be duly entered in the license book by the licensee. Each issue of permit shall be duly entered in the license book by the Forest Officer with his initial and date.
(5) A permit shall be in Form VI. The permit books shall be in triplicate and each page number of the permit in print. The original permit shall be issued to the party, the duplicate copy to be sent by the issuing Officer to the Forest Ranger Officer along with accounts and the rtiplicate shall be retained as a counterfoil in the book.

5. Value of Bamboos- The value payable for different Forest Division for the purpose of Sub-rule (4) of Rule 4 will be as per rates indicated in the Schedule. These rates are for felling and removed of bamboos under permit.

6. Restrictions- While cutting bamboos, the cutting rules prescribed in the Working Plan of the Division shall be application for the purposes of this rule also.

7. Other Methods of Supply and Rates thereof - The State Government may prescribe separate rates for different areas for the bamboos to be paid by the licensees when such bamboos are supplied for the purpose of these rules from departmentally opened depots.

8. Infringement and Penalty - Infringement of any of the provisions of these rules by the licensee shall make him liable to forfeiture of the license besides such other action that may be taken under provisions of Section 37 of the Act.

SCHDULE

[Rule 5]

Rate per Single Bamboo payable by a Licensee

1) Name of the application.....
2) Father's name ....
3) Addition ...
4) Whether the application is a member of family of bamboo artisans / Bamboo Artisans Co-operative Society ....
5) Number of members in the family with their names engaged in Bamboo handi. Work/ Names along with the name of president and the name of the Socity..
6) Monthly requirement of Salia bamboos...
7) Name of forest from where required ..

Signature of the applicant

I...................... do hereby declare that the information furnished above are true and that myself and my family members are bamboo artisans and dependent on trade of bamboo artisans as the means of livelihood.

Signature of the applicant

Place....
Date ....

This is to certify that Shri ........................... Son of Shri ......................................... ..........................village .......................P.S ........................ under Ward No ......................... Of ........................ Gram Panchayat NAC Municipalty is a bamboo artisans with follwing family member of ................ (name) Siciety ........................... consisting of ....................... members engaged in manufacture of bamboo products. The minbare of the family/ society are fully dependent on such trade for earning their livelihood. I have not granted similar certificate to this person or to any other member of his family or Society in the past.

Name of the member of the family or Society

(1)...
(2)...

Signature or the Sarpanch/ Ward
Member
(Name in full)

Date ...............

Name of Grama Panchayat
NAC
Municipality

REGISTER OF APPLICATION FOR BAMBOO ARTISANS

LICENCE BOOK FOR BAMBOO ARTISANS

Date Permit No. From which forest No.of Salia Bamboos initials of the Supply is permitted (in words issuing Officer and figures)
and figures.

Book NO ... ... .... Permit No .... .... ....
Name of the licensee... ..... ..... .... ....
Address.... ..... .... .... .....
Number of Salia Bamboos permitted for
removal (in words and figures).... ..... ..... .....
Value of pritected forests from where
removal is permited ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
Date of issue ..... ...... ...... ..... .....
......... ...... ........ ......
Date of expiry of the permit ........ ....... ....... ........

Signature of issuing Officer
Date.....................

Note - Bamboo cutting rules prescribed for the Reserved Forests of the Division shall be observed while cutting bamboos in Protected Forest under these Rules.

(The 28th September, 1985)

S.R.O.No 7/7/85 - In exercise of the powers conferred by section 31 read with Section 32 and clause (d) of Section 82 of the Orissa Forest Act, 1972 (Orissa Act 14 of 1972), the State Government do here by make the follwing rules, nsmely.

1. Short Title and Commencement -

(1) These rules may called The Orissa Village Forestry Rules, 1985.
(2)They shall come into force on the date of their publication in Official Gazette.

2. Definition -

(1) In these rules, unless the context other requires
I. Act means the Orissa Forest Act, 1972;
II. Assistant Conservator of Forests means a Forest Officer the Orissa Forest Service or Indian Forest Service attach to the Forest Division and includes a Forest Officer or similar rank attached to a Social Forestry Project Division.
III. Block Development Officer means a Forest Officer appoint for a Block under Section 15-A of the Orissa Panchayat Samiti Act,1959.
IV. Collector means the Chief Officer in charge of the Revenue administration of a district and shall include an Additional District Magistrate;
V. Committee means a Village Forest Committee;
VI. Division Forest Officer means the Forest Officer in charge of a Forest Division and includes the Deputy Director in charge of a Social Forestry Project Division;
VII. Forester means the Forest Worker and Technical Assistant posted to Social Forestry Project;
VIII. Government means the Government of Orissa;