Bajwa Agro Industries Limited was originally incorporated on 24th
 March, 1993 under the Companies Act, 1956 as a Public Limited Company
 in the name of Bajwa Agro Oil Limited. The company has obtained a
 Certificate for Commencement of Business on 18th June, 1993.
 Subsequently, the shareholders of the company passed a special
 resolution in Annual General Meeting of the company held on 30.9.1994
 and the name of the company was changed to Bajwa Agro Industries
 Limited w.e.f. 3.10.1994.
 
 Main Objects
 
 The main objects of the company as set out in the Memorandum and
 Articles of the company are reproduced below:-  
 
 1. To set up oil seeds, Bran Seed Cakes processing complex for
 expelling, extraction and refining of oils by mechanical, electrical
 and/or chemical means from all or any of the kind and/or type of
 commodities viz rice bran, all type of oil cakes and all kinds of oil
 bearing seeds and nuts.
 
 2. To manufacture, process, refine, prepare, crush, extract,
 hydrogenate, sell, buy, import, export or otherwise deal in all kinds
 of crude oil, refined oil, edible oil, non-edible oil, perfumed oil
 and extracting by-products thereof.
 
 3. To manufacture oil derivatives, acid slury, refine, prepare,
 treat, purchase, sell, import, export, store, distribute or otherwise
 deal in rice bran, oil cakes and seeds, nuts, soaps, vegetable ghee
 and deoiled brans,perfumery and all kinds of by-products and
 ingredients
 thereof.
 
 Present Business
 
 The company proposes to set up an integrated vegetable seed oil
 processing complex comprising a 150 tpd Oil Mill, 150 tpd Solvent
 Extraction Plant and a 60 tpd Vegetable Oil Refinery at village
 Qadian, Distt. Gurdaspur in the state of Punjab.
 
 The project is envisaged in the edible oil industry. Edible oils form
 one of the main ingredients in preparation of foods and are used
 worldwide. The major Companies in the field are ITC Agro Tech, Jayant
 Agro, Kothari Global, Ruchi Soya, Tinna Oils etc.
 
 In India, the nine major seeds which mainly contribute to the
 production of edible oil, are Groundnut,Mustard/Rapeseed, Soyabean,
 Sunflower, Sunflower,Nigerseed, Casterseed and Linseed. The company
 proposes to
 use Sunflower and Mustard/Rapeseed Oilseeds to produce edible oil.