CICs may be required to issue guarantees or take on other contingent liabilities on behalf of their group entities. Before doing so, CICs must ensure that they can meet the obligation thereunder, as and when they arise. In particular, CICs which are exempt from registration requirement must be in a position to do so without recourse to public funds in the event the liability devolves. If unregistered CICs with asset size above Rs. 100 crore access public funds without obtaining a Certificate of Registration (CoR) from RBI, they will be seen as violating Core Investment Companies (Reserve Bank) Directions, 2011 dated January 05, 2011.
With a view to simplify and attune the Scheme to suit to current requirements and to facilitate issue of Electronic Kisan Credit Cards, a Working Group under the Chairmanship of Shri T.M.Bhasin, Chairman and Managing Director, Indian Bank was constituted. The Working Group has since submitted its recommendations based on which a revised Kisan Credit Card (KCC) Scheme has been devised.
it has been decided to include the following documents in the indicative list of required documents for opening accounts of proprietary concerns: (i) the complete Income Tax Return (not just the acknowledgement) in the name of the sole proprietor where the firm’s income is reflected, duly authenticated / acknowledged by the Income Tax Authorities (ii) utility bills such as electricity, water and landline telephone bills in the name of the proprietary concern.
On 10-05-2012, one lady passenger dressed in the ‘purdah ( abaya) and scarf was intercepted near exit gate of Customs Arrival hall, on suspicion while she was coming out with her husband and two children, opting customs clearance through green channel.
It has been decided by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs to mandate the cost auditors and the companies to file Cost Audit Reports (Form-I) and Compliance Reports (Form-A) for the year 2011-12 onwards (including the overdue reports relating to any previous year) by using the XBRL taxonomy. These reports, required to be filed in the XBRL format, would be based on the Taxonomy on XBRL being developed for the formats (Form-I & Form-A) given in the following Rules :
Investor Education and Protection Fund (Uploading of information regarding unpaid and unclaimed amounts lying with companies) Rules, 2012, has mandated every company to file eForm 5INV containing the information of unclaimed and unpaid amounts as referred to in subsection (2) of section 205C of the Companies Act, 1956.
In exercise of the powers conferred under Paragraph 2.4 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2009-2014 and Paragraph 1.1 of Handbook of Procedures (Vol.1), the Director General of Foreign Trade hereby notifies a SION, bearing number J-375 in respect of the export product “Tubular Bags (Gauntlet)”. This new entry would be as under.
Trade Notice No. 2/2012 Dated the 10th May, 2012 Trade Notice No.1 dated 8th May, 2012 was issued stipulating the procedure that would be adopted for issue of cotton RC’s in addition to that provided in Notification No.113 of 4th May 2012. The following additional points are being stipulated to further streamline the registration process:
Banks should put in place a Board approved policy with regard to take-over of accounts from another bank. The policy may include norms relating to the nature of the accounts that may be taken over, authority levels for sanction of takeover, reporting of takeover to higher authorities, monitoring mechanism of taken over accounts, credit audit of taken over accounts, examination of staff accountability especially in case of quick mortality of such cases after takeover, periodic review of taken over accounts at Board /Board Committee level, Top Management level, etc.
Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) has concluded an Agreement dated September 1, 2011 with the Government of the Republic of Mozambique, making available to the latter, a Line of Credit (LOC) of USD 13 million (USD thirteen million) for the purpose of financing of Solar Photo Voltaic Module Manufacturing plant in Mozambique. The goods, machinery, equipment and services including consultancy services from India for exports under this Agreement are those which are eligible for export under the Foreign Trade Policy of the Government of India and whose purchase may be agreed to be financed by the Exim Bank under this Agreement.
