Who can become an ERDA Member

About Membership

ERDA membership is available in two categories. Eligibility criteria for becoming a member of ERDA is as below:

Associate Member: Any Institution not directly or indirectly involved in electrical or renewable energy industry either as manufacturer or trader or supply undertaking shall be eligible to become Associate Member. An Associate Member shall not be entitled to vote at the meeting of the Association nor shall be eligible for election as a member of the Managing Committee.

Ordinary Member (Annual/Life): Any individual, firm, institution, body corporate, limited liability partnership, private or public electricity utilities or Government electricity department engaged in the business of generation, transmission, distribution or utilization of electrical or renewable energy or production and/or sale of plant, machinery, equipment, systems, components, apparatus or materials, or research and development relating to the electrical industry and renewable energy sector or other trades or industries allied therewith or accessory thereto and corporations engaged in generating and/or distributing electrical energy and renewable energy shall be eligible to become an Ordinary Member.

Any person as specified hereinabove may become an Annual Ordinary Member for one year upon payment of annual subscription fee, or an Lifetime Ordinary Member for life upon payment of lifetime subscription fee.

Advantages of ERDA Membership

Associate Members with Annual Subscription

Subscription to ERDA is qualified as business expenditure under section 37 of Income Tax Act. 1971
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
Participation in training courses/workshops/seminars etc. at concessional rates
Annual 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
Annual Members get one complimentary copy of quarterly awareness service “Abstract of Current Technical Literature in Electrical Engineering”
Annual Members will get complimentary soft copy of “ERDA News”- A quarterly news magazine through email
Telephonic/postal/email enquiries on technical reports, conference, proceedings and books etc is available to Annual Members
Associate Members get regular information regarding announcements/brochures for seminars/ workshops/ training courses etc. organized by ERDA
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
ERDA provides R&D services to members for problems faced by member industries

Ordinary Member with Annual Subscription

Annual 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

The Annual members get concessions in test charges for tests being conducted at any of the ERDA laboratories. (Refer Table No. 1)

Table No. 1 Details of Membership Fees and Discount on Testing Charges for Testing at Laboratories
Sr.No.	Turnover (Excluding GST) (Value in Rs.)	Annual Membership Fees (Value in Rs.)	Discount on Testing Charges for Testing at Laboratories			Remarks
Sr.No.	Turnover (Excluding GST) (Value in Rs.)	Annual Membership Fees (Value in Rs.)	1^st Year	2^nd Year	3^rd Year	Remarks
1	Up to 5 Crores (Category A)	Rs. 10,000/-	5%	15%	25%	Additional 5% for turnover less than 5 Crores
2	Above 5 to 50 Crores (Category B)	Rs. 30,000/-	5%	15%	25%	---
3	Above 50 Crores (Category C)	Rs. 50,000/-	5%	15%	25%	---

Subscription to ERDA is qualified as business expenditure under section 37 of Income Tax Act. 1971
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
Participation in training courses/workshops/seminars etc. at concessional rates
Annual 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
Annual Members get one complimentary copy of quarterly awareness service “Abstract of Current Technical Literature in Electrical Engineering”
Annual Members will get complimentary soft copy of “ERDA News”- A quarterly news magazine through email
Telephonic/postal/email enquiries on technical reports, conference, proceedings and books etc is available to Annual Members
Annual Members get regular information regarding announcements/brochures for seminars/ workshops/ training courses etc. organized by ERDA
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
ERDA provides R&D services to members for problems faced by member industries

Ordinary Member with Life Subscription

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

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 Details of Membership Fees and Discount on Testing Charges for Testing at Laboratories
Sr.No.	Sales Turnover (Turnover excluding TAX)	Membership fees for Lifetime Membership (New Member)	Membership fees for Lifetime Membership (Old Member) *	Benefit/Discount for Testing at Laboratories	Remarks
1	Up to 5 Crores (Category A)	Rs. 1,00,000/-	Rs. 60,000/-	25%	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%	--

Subscription to ERDA qualifies as business expenditure under section 37 of Income Tax Act 1971.
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
Participation in training courses/workshops/seminars etc. at concessional rates
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
Life Members get one complimentary copy of quarterly awareness service “Abstract of Current Technical Literature in Electrical Engineering”
Life Members will get complimentary soft copy of “ERDA News”- A quarterly news magazine through email
Telephonic/postal/email enquiries on technical reports, conference, proceedings and books etc is available to Life Members
Life Members get regular information regarding announcements/brochures for seminars/ workshops/ training courses etc. organized by ERDA
Life Members can nominate a person for contract research at ERDA at their cost
ERDA provides Customer specific/tailor made training program for members to meet their specific requirement with very nominal charges
ERDA provides in house training at member's premises or at ERDA site laboratory
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
ERDA provides R&D services to members for problems faced by member industries
ERDA can carry out industry/utility specific technical surveys - such as state of the industry. Life members can access the report

Note:

* 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