Public Provident Fund Scheme, 1968 (PPF, 1968) and Senior Citizens Savings Scheme, 2004 (SCSS, 2004) – Revision of interest rates. Please refer to our circular RBI/2011-12/359 dated January 20, 2012 regarding interest rates on small savings schemes, wherein it was indicated that as per Government’s decision on revision of interest on small savings schemes, the interest rates on various small savings schemes for every financial year will be notified by the Government before April 01st of that year.
Notification No. 24/2013 – Income Tax In exercise of the powers conferred by section 118 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Board of Direct Taxes hereby directs that the Commissioner of Income-tax (Central), Bhopal shall be subordinate to the Director General of Income-tax (Investigation), Bhopal.
KYC verification of all the members of SHG need not be done while opening the savings bank account of the SHG and KYC verification of all the office bearers would suffice.
Five new Pre Shipment Inspection Agencies (PSIA) have been notified. Area of operation of four existing PSIA’s has been widened.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India {KYC (Know Your Client) Registration Agency} Amendment Regulations, 2013 have been notified vide No. LAD‑NRO/GN/2012-13/35/6998 with effect from March 22, 2013 whereby the requirement for sending original KYC documents of the clients to the KRA has been removed (copy enclosed).
Representations from field formations have been received intimating that owing to the delays in PAN Migration, PAN de-duplication and restoration, certain cases remain to be processed. However, AST does not permit these cases to be processed. Therefore, with the Board’s approval, the facility of Online TMS is extended for the cases time barring on 31-3-2013.
Custom House, Chennai will function on March 29 (Good Friday), 30 (Saturday) and also on Sunday, March 31, to enable Importers and Exporters to file documents, pay duty and clear the goods. On all these days, the Custom House will be functioning from 9.30 A.M. – 6 P.M. like any other working day. A Public notice 72/2013 dated 21.03.2013 has also been issued in this regard.
No person shall manufacture, distribute, sell, purchase, possess, store, or consume any controlled substance included in Schedule-A without a unique registration number in Form-A issued by the Zonal Director of Narcotics Control Bureau:
The Hon’ble High Court has directed, amongst other things, that such persons who profess Christian faith and are desirous of either being sanctioned full leave on both days or permission to pray at the Church for a limited duration on either day would be sanctioned leave or permission to leave offices to visit the Church at a short duration, keeping in view that those professing Christian faith would be a miniscule number working in such offices/ departments of the Central Government where revenue is generated.
hereas, the Central Government, having regard to the available information as to the possible use of substances mentioned in the Table below in the production or manufacture of various narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, and also to implement the provisions of the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, 1988, decided to declare them as controlled substances ;
