Report No. 264 The Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2017 (Provisions dealing with Food Adulteration) January, 2017- Our increasing daily need and fast growing lifestyle has resulted in availability of innumerable food and food products in the market, instant food and instant cooking has become a common requirement in every household today.
Important Recommendations of WG:- No major shake up in structure to avoid ‘rocking the boat Factoring in of Revenue along with Tax-payer base, Hybrid model of Functional and Territorial jurisdiction, Functional/ industry specialisation to be limited to Division for the present, Verticals namely DGCEI, NACEN, Systems, TPS to be strengthened and AR(GST) to be created. Adjudication to stop at Addl Commissioner level
The department of School Education & Literacy is taking several steps to make school education job-oriented and qualitative. The Department is implementing a component of Vocationalisation of Secondary & Higher Secondary Education under Centrally sponsored scheme of Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA)
Law Commission suggests amendments to the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 by adding new provisions on Prohibiting incitement to hatred’ following section 153B IPC and ‘Causing fear, alarm, or provocation of violence in certain cases’ following section 505 IPC, and accordingly amending the First Schedule of the CrPC.
Law Commission recommends that comprehensive amendment should be brought forth in Advocates Act, not only keeping in view the present requirements, but such other requirements that may arise in future for the better management and regulation of the legal profession
FM approves the re-organisation of the field formations of the Central Board of Excise & Customs (CBEC) for the implementation of Goods & Services Tax (GST); CBEC is being renamed as the Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs (CBIC), after getting legislative approval
ITD conducted searches in about 2534 groups of persons led to admission of undisclosed income of about Rs. 45,622 crore apart from seizure of undisclosed assets (cash, jewellery etc) worth about Rs. 3,625 crore
(i) All insurers are required to display the information about any unclaimed amount above Rupees 1000/- of Policyholders in their respective web-site. (ii) A facility shall be given in the web-site of the insurer to enable Policyholders / or its dependents to find out whether any unclaimed amounts due to them are lying with the insurer.
In India, adoption of advanced business digital technologies can lead to increase in revenues by up to 27%, increase in employment by up to 84% and enhanced access to international markets by up to 65% for small and medium business (SMBs), according to ASSOCHAM-Deloitte joint study.
Competition Commission of India (CCI) has found Coal India Limited (CIL) and its subsidiaries to be in contravention of the provisions of Section 4(2)(a)(i) of the Competition Act, 2002 for imposing unfair/ discriminatory conditions in Fuel Supply Agreements (FSAs) with the power producers for supply of non-coking coal.
