The Committee of Secretaries (COS) in its meeting held on 10th May, 2011 approved the release of the new series of Index of Industrial Production (IIP) with 2004-05 as its base and directed that the new series of IIP may be released for the month of April, 2011onwards. Accordingly IIP new series is released today i.e 10th June, 2011, which is the Quick Estimate (QE) of IIP for the month of April, 2011. The time series indices for the period of April, 2005 to March, 2011 are also released along with the QE of April, 2011 index. Though the Q.E. of the IIP pertaining to the old series of IIP (Base: 1993-94=100) is also made available through this Ministry’s website for comparison and academic purposes, the same will be discontinued from the month of September, 2011 onwards. In other words, the Q.E. of IIP pertaining to 1993-94 series will be provided only upto the month of August, 2011, which will be the Q.E. of IIP for the month of June, 2011.
Amid rising inflation, Reserve Bank Governor D Subbarao today pitched for greater autonomy for the central bank saying that operational freedom would help it focus better on management of prices. Having autonomy frees the central bank from the pressure of responding to short-term developments, deviating from its inflation target and thereby compromising its medium term inflation goals, Subbarao said in a speech at the SAARC Finance Governors’ symposium at Kumarakom in Kerala.
Union Ministry of Corporate Affairs today said it will organise a Lok Adalat for companies for the first time on June 11, with an intention of minimising litigation and avoid unnecessary prosecution against defaulting companies. The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has decided to organise Lok Adalat for companies for settlement of compoundable offences for the first time ever. The first such Lok Adalat is going to be held in Chandigarh, Registrar of Companies (Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh) Raj Singh said here.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a case against the then certain officers of MTNL and other unknown private persons of a Noida- based Private Company dealing in Optical Fibre Transmission U/s 120-B IPC and 13(2) r/w 13(1)(d) of Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 on the allegations that MTNL awarded the work of broadcast network based on IP/MPLS Technology at an exorbitant price of approx. Rs.570.12 crores by manipulating the specification in such a manner as to make them tailor made for the said bidder to the said private company.
The Quality Review Board of the Institute, in its meeting held on 4th June 2011, has approved the release of Exposure Draft of Guidance Manual for Audit Quality. The proposed manual may be modified in light of comments / suggestions received.
The Reserve Bank of India today released the June Issue of its RBI Bulletin. June issue of the Bulletin carries four special articles: i. India’s Foreign Trade, 2010-11 (April-March)ii. Inflation Expectations Survey of Households: March 2011 (Round 23) iii. Quarterly Industrial Outlook Survey: January-March 2011 – (Round 53) iv. Survey on Computer Software and Information Technology Services Exports: 2009-10.
DBOD.BP.BC.No.99 /21.04.132/2010-11 Banks were advised that if due to lack of expertise / appropriate infrastructure, they find it difficult to ensure computation of diminution in the fair value of advances extended by their small / rural branches, they will have the option of notionally computing the amount of diminution in the fair value and providing therefor at five percent of the total exposure in respect of all restructured accounts where the total dues are less than rupees one crore till the financial year ending March 2011. It was also advised that the position would be reviewed thereafter.
The Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) on Wednesday said account details would be available online from July 1. You can watch the account balance of your PF online from July 1, Assistant PF Commissioner Kanchan Roy said at an interactive session at Bengal National Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
CIT Versus Sadhu Forging Ltd (Delhi HC) – Assessee in giving heat treatment for which it had earned labour charges and job-work charges, it can thus be said that the appellant had done a process on the raw material which was nothing but a part and parcel of the manufacturing process of the industrial undertaking. These receipts cannot be said to be independent income of the manufacturing activities of the undertakings of the assessee and thus could not be excluded from the profits and gains derived from the industrial undertaking for the purpose of computing deduction under Section 80IB. These were gains derived from industrial undertakings and so entitled for the purpose of computing deduction under Section 80IB. There cannot be any two opinions that manufacturing activity of the type of material being undertaken by the assessee would also generate scrap in the process of manufacturing. The receipts of sale of scrap being part and parcel of the activity and being proximate thereto would also be within the ambit of gains derived from industrial undertaking for the purpose of computing deducting under Section 80IB.
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