The Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate a national conference of the State Finance Ministers here tomorrow. The day-long conference, which includes participation from all stakeholders from Union and State Governments, aims to trigger discussions on operational guidelines for conceptualizing ‘General Purpose Financial Reporting’ under accrual based accounting system. Secretaries to the Government of India, State Finance Secretaries, Financial Advisors from key ministries and State Accountant Generals will participate.
CIRCULAR NO. MIRSD/9/2011, Henceforth, the Depositories shall submit a periodical report to SEBI regarding the following changes, as per the format and in accordance with the guidelines given at Annexure A: a. Amalgamation, demerger, consolidation or any other kind of corporate restructuring falling within the scope of section 391 of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956) or the corresponding provision of any other law for the time being in force;b. Change in Director, including managing director/whole-time director;c. Change in shareholding not resulting in change in control; d. Any other purpose as may be considered appropriate by the Depositories.
CIRCULAR NO. MIRSD/11/2011, The requirement of taking prior approval by the Bankers to an Issue from SEBI for change in status or constitution has been dispensed with. However, the Bankers to an Issue would be required to take prior approval from SEBI for change in control. Pursuant to the aforesaid notification, commencing from the quarter ended June 30, 2011, all Bankers to an Issue shall report the following change(s) to SEBI in the quarterly reports submitted in accordance with the SEBI Circular No. MIRSD/DPS-2/BTI/Circular No. 15/2008, dated May 6, 2008.
CIRCULAR NO. MIRSD/10/2011, With the said amendment, the requirement of taking prior approval by the Debenture Trustees from SEBI for change in status or constitution has been dispensed with. However, the Debenture Trustees are required to take prior approval from SEBI for change in control. Pursuant to the aforesaid notification, commencing from the quarter ended June 30, 2011, all Debenture Trustees shall report the following change(s) to SEBI in the quarterly reports submitted in accordance with SEBI Circular No. MIRSD/DPS-2/DT/Cir. -14/2008, dated May 6, 2008.
Clarification on Circular No. 33/2011 dated 01.06.2011 with regard to compliance of provisions of the Companies Act, 1956 and Rules made there under.
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 41 of the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002 (Mah. IX of 2005), the Government of Maharashtra hereby amends the Government Notification, Finance Department, No.VAT-1509/CR-89/Taxation-1, dated the 5th November 2009, as follows, namely : —
Shri P. Vijaya Bhaskar assumed charge as Executive Director of the Reserve Bank of India on June 13, 2011. As Executive Director, Shri Bhaskar will look after Central Security Cell, Department of Banking Supervision and Department of Non-Banking Supervision. Prior to his appointment as Executive Director, Shri Bhaskar was the Regional Director of Karnataka.
Public Notice No.57/ (RE-2010)/2009-2014 – Earlier export item was ‘without handle’. Now, those with handles (either of fibre glass or wood) are also permitted. Hence, necessary changes are made under SION C-390 and SION C- 1538.
While the future growth outlook of the Indian economy looks promising, the challenge is to make it more inclusive. At the grassroots level, India continues to be a poor and less developed country in spite of years of financial and other support provided by the Government to equity enhancing distributional programmes and the spectacular turnaround in investment and growth. According to a Planning Commission Report on the methodology of estimation of poverty issued in 2009, the all India poverty head count ratio was at 37.2 per cent in 2004-05 compared to 45.3 per cent in 1993-94. Prima facie, while the slow pace of reduction in poverty due to high population growth rate, large workforce still dependent on agriculture and illiteracy continue to obstruct the growth potential, the paradigm that these disabilities can be nevertheless be turned around into a winning proposition is also surely within the realm of possibility.
Public Notice No.56/ (RE-2010)/2009-2014 This will facilitate import of raw materials for plain as well as printed Lug Caps.
