Allahabad Bank Syndicate Bank United Bank of India Vijaya Bank, Bangalore State Bank of India State Bank Of Bikaner & Jaipur State Bank of Hyderabad State Bank of Indore 1. M/s N Chaudhuri & Co, Kolkata 2. M/s Rasool Singal & Co., New Delhi 3. M/s Dass Gupta & Associates, New Delhi 4. M/s K.S. Bothra & Co., Kolkata 5. M/s Venkat & Rangaa, Chennai 6. M/s Anand Rungta & Co., Patna

The Chartered Accountant firms who had applied for empanelment for audit of Public Sector Undertakings during January 2007 – February 2007, are requested to update their data (online) for the year 2008-2009. The data is to be updated even if there is no change in the constitution of the firm.

Multipurpose Empanelment Form (MEF) 2007-08. View Multipurpose Panel 2007-08 Corrections are being processed, the final panel will be available as soon as possible.

Tarun Ghia Vs. The State of Maharashtra and others The Petitioner is a Chartered Accountant in practice and claims to be qualified to undertake the audit of societies as contemplated under Section 81 (1)(a) and 81(1)(b) of the Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960. He was on the panel of auditors maintained by the Divisional Joint Registrar, Cooperative Societies – Respondent No.3. According to the Petitioner the powers of empanelment, removal and other matters relating to functioning of the Chartered Accounts in contemplation to those provision was arbitrary and discretionary; and the Respondents were acting in a very unfair manner. On these 2 premises the Petitioner prayed for an issuance of an appropriate writ, order or direction directing Respondent No.3 to produce the entire records in connection with the list of societies with basic details like turnover, working capital, audit fees of the previous year and the Respondents be directed to prepare proper guidelines introducing transparency and fairness in empanelment of the auditors for awarding of auditing work in the co-operative societies. The Petitioner has further prayed that Respondent No.3 should publish the list and the consideration for empanelment should be objective and not supported by extraneous criteria.