Rates Circular No.  1  of 2004

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (BHARAT SARKAR)
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (RAIL MANTRALAYA)
RAILWAY BOARD

The minimum weight condition of 350 qtls. for timber waste conveyed vide Board’s letter referred above was valid upto 31.10.2003. 

            Sanction of the Central Government is hereby accorded provisionally to extend the minimum weight condition of 350 qtls. for timber waste loaded in BCX/BCN/BCNA/BOX wagons beyond 31.10.2003 for a period of six months upto 30.04.2004 subject to furnishing of comprehensive test weighments of the commodity in sufficient numbers of different types of wagons used for loading of this commodity.  The weighment should be done using different sizes and types of wood being carried, well before the expiry of this sanction.           

            As timber waste is intended to be used as raw material for manufacture of rayon/paper grade pulp, the consignee should be a rayon or paper mill. 

            Timber waste includes pieces of timber or wood waste (other than sandal wood but including casurina wood pieces) including shaving, lops, tops and branches of trees, veneer waste, bark waste, bakals, challas (challia), lips, scraps, rejections and side cuts (off cuttings). 

            Zonal Railways may take adequate precautions against possible misdeclaration by forming teams of commercial inspectors and conducting frequent checks on the commodity being consigned at origin and destination. 

As Board is desirous of finalizing the minimum weight condition of timber waste before 30.04.2004, non-submission of test weighments well before the expiry of the sanction would lead to lapsing of the reduced weight condition and reversion to weight condition mentioned in the Goods Tariff. 

Railways with originating loading shall forward the comparative loading and earnings of the commodity alongwith the comprehensive test weighments by 31.3.2004.  Details of major consignees and the end use of the commodity may also be forwarded alongwith the above report. 

            This issues with the concurrence of the Finance Directorate in the Ministry of Railways.