As you may be aware, it has been the endeavour of Reserve Bank of India to put in place clearing infrastructure at all places where there are five or more banks operating but do not have a clearing house with a relaxation to district headquarters where the presence of three banks is sufficient to establish a clearing house. Towards this endeavour, Regional offices of RBI continuously identify locations and banks for opening new clearing houses. As a result of such continuous efforts, there are 1200 clearing houses as on April 2012 across the country of which more than 200 clearing houses have been made operational during the last four years (2008-2012) alone.
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.
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.
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.
In light of Para 127 of the Monetary Policy Statement 2012-13 announced by RBI Governor on April 17, 2012 (copy enclosed), banks should now re-align their cash management in such a manner so as to ensure that cash receipts in the denominations of Rs. 100 and above should not be put into re-circulation without the notes being machine processed for authenticity.
Notification No. 32/2012 – Customs The exemption for some of goods is now subject to the condition that the importer declares- (i) the State of destination namely the State where the goods are intended to be taken immediately after importation whether for sale or for distribution on stock transfer basis; and (ii) his VAT (Value Added Tax) registration number or Sales Tax registration number or Central Sales Tax registration number, as the case may be, in the said State.
an officer not below the rank of a Deputy Secretary to the Government of India, in the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy recommends the grant of this exemption, indicating the quantity, description and specification thereof and certifies that the goods are required for initial setting up of a solar power generation project or facility; and
Footwear and hawai chappal (other than of leather), that is to say, chappals known commercially as hawai chappals, of retail sale price not exceeding Rs. 500 per pair
