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Directorate of Prime Minister's Employment

Generation ProgrammeKhadi & Village Industries Commission

Ministry of MSME (Govt. of India)Gramodaya" 3 Irla Road,Vile Parle (W) Mumbai-

4000056Tel. Fax 022-26713686

Website: www.kvic.org.in/www.pmegp.ine-mail: [email protected]

No.PMEGP/Policy Guidelines/2013-14 Dt: 22.08.2013

[email protected]

Sub: Ivory products under PMEGP.Ref: Your mail dt. 08.08.2013

Sir,Kindly refer to the above cited subject.

In this regards, it is to inform that Prime Minister’s Employment

Generation Programme (PMEGP) is scheme of employment generationlaunched by Ministry of MSME, Govt. of India. Ministry of MSME programme

monitored and implemented by Khadi and VI Commission alongwith Khadi & Village Industries Board and District Industries center.2. It is to clarify that a list of indicative items including ivory items was

displayed as Village Industries items on KVIC website which has since beendeleted and policy circular is also issued banning all items /activities which

are banned by Govt. of India or competent Government Authorities and will

automatically be treated as items under negative list of PMEGP. Copy of Circular is enclosed for kind information.

3. It is also to confirm that item ‘ivory products’ is deleted from web sitesof KVIC and PMEGP online application form.

This is issued with approval of CEO, KVIC.

Yours faithfully,Encl: As above

Director (PMEGP)



VICTORY of Abhishek Kadyan, Media Adviser to UN affiliated OIPA www.oipa.org in

India – People for Animals (PFA) Haryana and Sukanya Kadyan, Programme Director,

OIPA India – PFA Haryana www.pfaaharyana.in

https://www.change.org/en-IN/petitions/elephant-killed-for-teeth-kvic-promoting-

ivory-products-in-india-abhishek-kadyan 1673 emails have been sent from the all

around Globe:

To:

HE The President of India

HE The Vice President of India, New Delhi.Hon'ble Prime Minister of India

Hon'ble Minister of Environment and Forest

The Secretary to the MoEF Naresh Kadyan, Rep. of OIPA in India

Hon'ble Minister for MSME

The Secretary to the Ministry of MSMEThe Cabinet Secretary to the Govt. of India

The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau - WCCB

The Chairman, KVIC

Member - Western Zone

Member - Eastern ZoneMember - Northern Zone

Member - Sourthern ZoneMember - Central Zone

Member - North Eastern Zone

The CEO of KVICRajya Sabha Committee for Petitions

The Chief Secretary to Haryana Govt.

http://www.oipa.org/

http://www.pfaaharyana.in/

https://www.change.org/en-IN/petitions/elephant-killed-for-teeth-kvic-promoting-ivory-products-in-india-abhishek-kadyan


http://www.oipa.org/

http://www.pfaaharyana.in/





Hon'ble CM Haryana

HE The Governor of Haryana

Hon'ble Speaker, Haryana AssemblyDirector, Animal Welfare Division

Abhishek Kadyan has submitting his application for financial assistance online to the KVIC for

Ivory products manufacturing bearing No. EKVHY21-716, like wise Miss Sukanya Kadyanmoved her application for trading of Ivory products bearing No. EKVDL16-717 and Smt. Sharda

Kadyan No. EKVHY21-718 for flaying animal slaughtered for meat, another application No.

EKVDL16-1559 for Mfg. of Mosquito Killer etc.The UN affiliated OIPA in India and PFA Haryana demanding that the KVIC must include

above said activities in the negative list because financing under PMEGP of Ivory products

manufacturing and trading will create demands of illegal articles and it will promote poaching of

Elephants; the National heritage animal of India, protected under scheduled one of the WildlifeProtection Act, 1972. .

1. All living creatures other than human beings covered under animal definition approved by the

Animal Welfare Board of India, where as animal husbandry under the negative list of KVIC then

why bee keeping and vermiculture are allowed under PMEGP?2. The UP Khadi and Village Industries Board promoting manufacturing of nylon net for fishing

to kill them are allowed under PMEGP scheme, which is against the ethos of Gandhi, Mfg. of Mosquito Killer etc. as well.

3. Ivory product manufacturing and trading be banned at once with apology, Karnataka KVI Act,

1956 be amended deleting ivory activity.4. Special OBC's of Haryana needs 35% margin money subsidy.

5. Manufacture and use of manure and methane (Gobar) gas from cow dung and other waste

products, such as flesh of dead animals, why flesh?

Khadi Industries gets flak for wanting to promote ivory production

http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/khadi-industries-gets-flak-wanting-promote-ivory-production

Wildlife Crime Control Bureau says proposal to include ivory production and trade under primeminister's employment scheme violates wildlife law

Ivory handicraft: (Credit: Pradip Saha) Khadi and Village

Industries Commission (KVIC), a statutory body of the

Government which promotes small and cottage industries,has drawn flak from the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau

(WCCB) over its recent proposal to include ivory

production and trade in one of its schemes. KVIC is stillin consultations with Ministry of Micro, Small and

Medium Enterprises (MSME) on whether to put ivory and

bones under the negative list though the WildlifeProtection Society of India's (WPSI) data shows between

2008 and 2011, 781 kg of ivory was seized by the government.





In a letter dated July 26, to the director of ministry of MSME, additional director of the

government's Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, S B Negi stated that trading in parts of schedule 1

animal under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 is banned and punishable under various sectionsof the Indian Penal Code. “The manufacture and trading of ivory or any other article made up of

ivory and also its import into India is illegal and punishable,” he said.

2008-2011: 121 jumbos killed by poachers

However, a scheme promoted by KVIC since 2008, the Prime Minister's EmploymentGeneration Programme (PMEGP), has included trading of ivory, horns and other bone products

under its project activity. According to PMEGP, government provides up to 35 per cent subsidy

to the willing entrepreneur to participate in such project activities. This was happening over thesame time that WPSI recorded loss of over 121 elephants because of poaching between 2008 and

2011.

During this same period, WPSI has records of 781 kg of ivory, 69 tusks, 31 cut pieces of ivory,

99 pieces of ivory carvings and 75 ivory bangles that have been seized from across the country.“From 2008 to 2011, a further 50 wild elephants died in road and train accidents and a shocking

111 elephants died from electrocution. But poaching remains the major cause of death of wild

elephants,” states a WPSI report. According to WCCB, there is no mechanism under PMEGP to

determine how ivory or any of the bone products were procured.

Naresh Kadyan, Haryana-based representative of the International Organization for Animal

Protection in India and chairperson of People for Animals Haryana, says he wrote several letters

to ministry of MSME on the matter. In one of the replies, a director of Polymer and ChemicalBased Industries of KVIC stated in a letter on September 13, 2012 that since ivory and bones are

procured without causing any harm to the animals, usually known as the ahinsak method and has

an employment potential, therefore, it was included under Prime Minister's EmploymentGeneration Programme.

“Dealing with ivory products is a complete violation of Wildlife Protection Act. Thus, we

approached Wildlife Crime Control Bureau to take up this matter. Simultaneously, we have also

written to the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests, to put the trade of ivory, horns and

bones under the negative list,” Kadyan said.

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