| 1 |
Life members get opportunity to participate in the formulation of policies and steering ERDA activities to industrial needs. This is available by virtue of getting elected to the Managing Committee. Every year, one third of the members of managing committee, who are oldest shall retire and new members are elected |
| 2 |
The life members get concessions in test charges for tests being conducted at any of the ERDA laboratories (Refer Table No. 1) |
| Table No. 1 |
| Table showing details of Membership Fees with Discount on Testing |
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Sr.No.
|
Sales Turnover
(Turnover excluding TAX)
|
Membership fees for Lifetime Membership
(New Member)
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Membership fees for Lifetime Membership
(Old Member) *
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Benefit/Discount on Testing
|
Remarks
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|
1
|
Up to 5 Crores
(Category A)
|
Rs. 1,00,000/-
|
Rs. 60,000/-
|
25%
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Additional 5% for
turnover less than 5
Crores. Total discount
for such member will
be 30%.
|
|
2
|
Above 5 to 50 Crores
(Category B)
|
Rs. 3,00,000/-
|
Rs. 1,80,000
|
25%
|
--
|
|
3
|
Above 50 Crores
(Category C)
|
Rs. 5,00,000/-
|
Rs. 3,00,000/-
|
25%
|
--
|
|
| 3 |
Subscription to ERDA qualifies as business expenditure under section 37 of Income Tax Act 1971. |
| 4 |
ERDA is notified as a R&D Institute under Section 35 (I) (II) of Income Tax Act. 1961. Contribution paid
towards R&D activities of ERDA is exempted from Income Tax up to 150% of the contribution for R&D
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| 5 |
Participation in training courses/workshops/seminars etc. at concessional rates
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| 6 |
Life Members get free access to ERDA’s Documentation Centre for technical reference works. Facility
for borrowing of a maximum of 2 library books at a time for a period of 15 days
|
| 7 |
Life Members get one complimentary copy of quarterly awareness service “Abstract of Current
Technical Literature in Electrical Engineering”
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| 8 |
Life Members will get complimentary soft copy of “ERDA News”- A quarterly news magazine through
email
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| 9 |
Telephonic/postal/email enquiries on technical reports, conference, proceedings and books etc is
available to Life Members
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| 10 |
Life Members get regular information regarding announcements/brochures for seminars/
workshops/ training courses etc. organized by ERDA
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| 11 |
Life Members can nominate a person for contract research at ERDA at their cost
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| 12 |
ERDA provides Customer specific/tailor made training program for members to meet their specific
requirement with very nominal charges
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| 13 |
ERDA provides in house training at member's premises or at ERDA site laboratory
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| 14 |
As a part of knowledge dissemination, members will get a soft copy of various Technical papers
presented by ERDA in various National/ International journals/conference
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| 15 |
ERDA provides R&D services to members for problems faced by member industries |
| 16 |
ERDA can carry out industry/utility specific technical surveys - such as state of the industry. Life
members can access the report
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| Note: |
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* Members can change their category by paying differential amount with necessary Turnover details and get
benefits of next category
** Members who have completed 5 years as ERDA ordinary members and wish to become Life members
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