In exercise of the powers conferred by section 12 of the Government Savings Certificates Act, 1959 (46 of 1959), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the National Savings Certificates (VIII Issue) Rules, 1989, namely:- 1. (1) These rules may be called the National Savings Certificates (VIII Issue) (Amendment Rules), 2012.(2) They shall deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of April, 2012.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 12 of the Government Savings Certificates Act, 1959 (46 of 1959), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the National Savings Certificates (IX Issue) Rules, 2011, namely:- 1. (1) These rules may be called the National Savings Certificates (IX Issue) (Amendment) Rules, 2012. (2) They shall deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of April, 2012.
Notification No. 17/2012-Income Tax In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (iii) of sub-section (4) of section 80-IA of the said Act read with Rule 18C of the Income Tax Rules, 1962, the Central Government hereby notifies M/s. Intime Properties Private Limited., Mumbai as an undertaking and the project at Building No. 5B, 6 and 9 at Survey No.64(part), Madhapur, Hyderabad, Distt. Rangareddy, Andhra Pradesh being developed and being maintained and operated by the said undertaking, as an industrial park for the purposes of the said clause (iii) subject to the following terms and conditions:-
Banks, which have fixed their service charges for out-station/speed clearing for instruments valuing above Rs. 1 lakh as percentage to the value of instruments are, therefore, advised to review the same and fix the charges on a cost-plus basis. Banks may note to ensure that collection charges fixed for instruments valuing above Rs. 1 lakh is lower under Speed Clearing vis-a-vis Out-station Cheque Collection as advised in paragraph 6(d) of our circular dated January 19, 2011 so as to encourage the use of Speed Clearing.
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.
