Notification No. 1035/2011 – Income Tax The Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) has for the first time notified e-waste management rules. The e-waste (management and handling) Rules, 2011 would recognise the producers’ liability for recycling and reducing e-waste in the country. The rules will come into effect from May 1, 2012.
Please refer to SEBI Circular No. CIR/IMD/FIIC/1/201 1 dated January 17, 2011 related to the new reporting format of ODIs/PNs activity. Subsequently, SEBI received representations from a number of FIIs seeking various clarifications on the new reporting format. While these clarifications sought by the FIIs are being addressed by SEBI, it has been decided to defer the implementation of the new reporting format.
Edelweiss Tokio Life Insurance Company Limited, a joint venture life insurance company promoted by Edelweiss Capital Limited and Tokio Marine and Nichido Fire Insurance Company, Japan has been registered as a Life Insurer under Section 3 of the Insurance Act, 1938 with the Authority. The Certificate of Registration (Forms IRDA/ R3) has been issued by the Authority on 10.05.2011. With this registration, the total number of Life Insurers registered with the Authority has gone up to 24.
The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Government of India has formulated guidelines on ensuring disaster resilient construction of buildings and infrastructure financed through banks and other lending institutions (A copy of NDMA guidelines of September 2010 is enclosed). The NDMA has observed that in the context of disaster resilience there are certain critical gaps and the guidelines aim at addressing these gaps in the current process of approving the loan applications. It has been observed that the structural design of the proposed buildings and structures are not completed before submitting the application for a bank loan and no processes are in place at the banks to ensure that disaster resilience has indeed been incorporated in the assets during the design process at least before the construction begins. DBOD.Dir.BC.No.93 /08.12.14/ 2010-11, May 12, 2011
It has come to the notice of the Ministry that some companies are making applications for getting prior approval of Central Government when they propose to make any loan to, or give any guarantee or provide any security in connection with a loan made by any other person to a Public Limited Company of which any such Director is a Director or a member even when the proposal does not fall under Section 295(d) and Section 295(e) of the Companies Act, 1956. General Circular No. 24/2011, Dated: – 12th May, 2011
It is observed that Indian operations of foreign banks functioning in India as branches of the parent banks generally do not have a separate Audit Committee vested with the responsibility of examining and reviewing inspection/audit reports for their compliance. In the recent past, there have been concerns about the adequacy of regulatory compliance by foreign banks in India and it is felt that this is on account of Business Heads/Units reporting directly and being answerable to their ‘Functional Heads’ located overseas and not to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Indian operations. RBI/2010-11/520 Ref.DBS.ARS.BC. No.07/ 08.91.020/ 2010-11
These rules may be called the Companies (Accounting Standards) Amendment Rules, 2011. They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette. In the said rules, in the annexure under the heading B. ACCOUNTING STANDARDS, in the sub-heading “Accounting Standard (AS) 11” relating to The Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates, in paragraph 46, for the words and figures “46. In respect of accounting periods commencing on or after 7th December, 2006 and ending on or before 31s` March 2011”, the following shall be substituted, namely,‑ 46. In respect of accounting periods commencing on or after 7th December, 2006 and ending on or before 31′ March 2012.
Please refer to our Circular UBD.PCB.Cir.No.11/09.09.01/2007-08 dated August 30, 2007 forwarding therewith the guidelines for UCBs on lending to priority sector. In terms of item (vi) under ‘Categories of Priority Sector’ and also para 7.1 of section I of Annex of the above Circular, loans up to Rs.20 lakh irrespective of location, to individuals for purchase / construction of dwelling unit per family, excluding loans granted by banks to their own employees are eligible for classification under priority sector.
Circular No. 139/8/2011-TRU, New Delhi, the 10th May 2011 Since the levy of service tax on the two new services relating to services provided by specified restaurants and by way of short-term hotel accommodation came into force with effect from 1st May 2011, a number of queries have been raised by the potential tax payers.
Several branches of the country’s largest insurance company Life Insurance Corporation of India are allegedly causing huge loss to exchequer by issuing receipts without affixing revenue stamps. The matter came to light during a hearing before the Central Information Commission which directed the LIC to make public details of all the revenue stamps purchased by the Corporation between 2006-10.
