The term “Infrastructure Loan” has been defined in Para 2(viii) of Non-Banking Financial (Deposit Accepting or Holding) Companies Prudential Norms (Reserve Bank) Directions, 2007 and Non-Banking Financial (Non – Deposit Accepting or Holding) Companies Prudential Norms (Reserve Bank) Directions, 2007, respectively. It has now been decided to include “Telecom Towers” also as an infrastructure facility for availing credit facility.
Cabinet Secretariat has brought to the notice of the CVC that in spite of above clarifications issued by CVC, some Ministries/Departments which receive complaints from CVC for taking appropriate action, instead of taking further necessary action at their level continue to forward the same to the Group of Secretaries of Group of Officers for consideration. Cabinet Secretariat has therefore, desired that instructions be issued by CVC to all the Ministries/Departments in this regard.
In order to capture the statistics relating to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), both inward and outward in a more comprehensive manner as also to align it with international best practices, it has been decided to replace Part B of the Form FC-GPR by a separate ‘Annual Return on Foreign Liabilities and Assets’ given as Annex-I. The return should be submitted by July 15 of every year to the Director, Balance of Payment Statistics Division, Department of Statistics and Information Management (DSIM), Reserve Bank of India, C-9, 8th floor, Bandra Kurla Complex, Bandra (E), Mumbai – 400 051. Further, the return should be submitted by all the Indian companies which have received FDI and/or made FDI abroad (i.e. overseas investment) in the previous year(s) including the current year. The Annex –II gives the concepts and definitions useful in filling the Annual Return on Foreign Liabilities and Assets.
Coins of 25 Paise and Below – Withdrawal from Circulation vide UBD.BPD. (PCB). Cir.No. 39 /09.73.000/2010-11. The Reserve Bank of India has instructed the banks maintaining small coin depots (list annexed) to arrange for exchange of coins of denomination of 25 paise and below for their face value at their branches. Members of public can exchange small denomination coins at any branch of these banks. Exchange facility will also be available at all Issue Offices of the Reserve Bank. The coins will be exchanged at the branches of these banks/offices of the Reserve Bank till the close of business on June 30, 2011.
Circular No. 14 / 2011-Customs- Notification No.13/2011-Customs (N.T.) dated 24.02.2011 which provides that no drawback shall be allowed on the goods exported to Nepal if such goods were imported into India from third countries. To comply with the above provision, the exporter shall declare on the body of the shipping bill under claim of drawback that the goods being exported to Nepal have not been imported into India from third countries. The field formations shall conduct random checking to ensure the genuineness of the exporter’s declaration.
Attention is invited to the Board’s Circular No. 897/17/2009-CX dated 03.09.09, wherein it was clarified that in light of clear and unambiguous provisions of Rule 14 of the CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004, the interest shall be recoverable when credit has been wrongly “taken”, even if it has not been utilized. The Apex Court has ruled that “If the aforesaid provision is read as a whole we find no reason to read the word “OR” in between the expressions ‘taken or utilized wrongly or has been erroneously refunded’ as the word “AND”. On the happening of any of the three circumstances such credit becomes recoverable along with interest.” In effect, therefore, the view taken by the Board in circular dated 03.09.09 has now been endorsed by the Apex Court.
Ministry has reviewed the processes involved in delivery of important services to stakeholders, with a view to identify and improve the components causing delay in disposal of applications. Payment confirmation is found to be a major bottleneck in delivery of services in respect of offline payment made by physical challans .
CIRCULAR NO. IMD/DF/4/2011, DATED 9-3-2011- The upfront commission to distributors will be paid by the investor directly to the distributor, based on his assessment of various factors including the service rendered by the distributor.1.3 Exit load or CDSC charged to the Investor, a maximum of 1 per cent of the redemption proceeds shall be maintained in a separate account which can be used by the AMC to pay commissions to the distributor and to take care of other marketing and selling expenses. Any balance shall be credited to the scheme immediately.
with following objects of Reducing the time taken by the Registrar of Companies in Incorporation of Companies and Speeding up and simplifying the process of incorporation and establishment of principal place of business in India by Foreign Companies. Main advantage of the circular is that it aims to reduce Average time taken to incorporate a Company to 1 day.
Based on the assessment of the allocation and the utilization of the limits to FIIs for investments in debt, it has been decided to allocate the unutilized limits in Government debt long term & corporate debt – old category in the following manner:- Allocation through bidding process: The bidding for these limits shall be done on the NSE from 15:30 hrs to 17:30 hrs, on March 15, 2011, in terms of SEBI circular IMD/FII&C/37/2009 dated February 06, 2009, subject to the modifications stated below:-
