Marginal Standing Facility – In order to provide greater liquidity cushion, it has been decided to – Raise the borrowing limit of scheduled commercial banks under the marginal standing facility (MSF) from 1 per cent to 2 per cent of their net demand and time liabilities (NDTL) outstanding at the end of second preceding fortnight with immediate effect. Banks can continue to access the MSF even if they have excess statutory liquidity ratio (SLR) holdings, as hitherto. The MSF rate, determined with a spread of 100 basis points above the repo rate, stands adjusted to 9.0 per cent with immediate effect.
As announced today by the Governor in the Annual Monetary Policy 2012-13, it has been decided to reduce the Repo rate under the Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF) by 50 basis points from 8.50 per cent to 8.00 per cent with immediate effect.
In Schedule XIV to the Companies Act, 1956, after serial number IV relating to Ships and the entries relating thereto, the following serial number and entries shall be inserted, namely:- Intangible Assets (Toll Road) created under Build, Operate and Transfer, Build, Own, Operate and Transfer or any other form of Public Private Partnership Route.
In terms of para 6 of the circular, four domestic credit rating agencies viz. CARE, CRISIL, FITCH India and ICRA have been accredited for the purpose of risk weighting the banks’ claims for capital adequacy purposes. The long term and short term ratings issued by these domestic credit rating agencies have been mapped to the appropriate risk weights applicable as per the Standardised Approach under the Basel II Framework.
Please refer to Para 3 of our circular RPCD.CO.Plan.BC.No.49/04.09.01/2010-11 dated January 28, 2011 on the captioned subject, wherein it was advised that the misclassifications reported by Principal Inspecting Officers, during the current year would be added to the shortfall reported by banks, as on the last reporting Friday of the following year, for allocations to various funds.
Any article gifted to a person for his personal use whose market value in India on the date of such gift does not exceed rupees twenty-five thousand shall not be a foreign contribution within the meaning of sub-clause (i) of clause (h) of sub-section (1) of section (2) of Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 (42 of 2010)
National Electronic Funds Transfer launched in year 2005 has been working successfully over the years and occupies an important place in the payment system space. The system is meant for one-to-one funds transfer and can be used for transferring funds to beneficiaries (individual, institutions etc.) and no restrictions have been placed thereon. The phenomenal growth in the system, both in terms of branch coverage and volume / value of transactions handled reflects the acceptability and popularity of the system.
LA Bill No.XVII of 2012 regarding the proposed amendments in Tax Laws according to Maharashtra Budget 2012 -Download Maharashtra LA Bill No.XVII of 2012
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section -2T-fiA of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956), the Central Government hereby constitutes the National Advisory Committee on Accounting Standards, for a period up to the 28th February, 2013 with effect from the date of publication of this notification, consisting of the following persons to advise the Central Government on the formulation and laying down of accounting policies and accounting standards for adoption by companies or class of companies under the said Act, namely
Under the present scenario of deregulated interest rate on the savings bank account, in order to avoid ambiguity and variation in compensation rates across different agency banks, these instructions have been reviewed. It has now been decided that with effect from the date of this circular, an agency bank shall compensate an investor in Relief/Savings bonds, for the financial loss due to late receipt/delayed credit of interest warrants/maturity value, at a fixed rate of 8% per annum.
