Public Financial Institution designation sets eligibility criteria for institutions seeking PFI status and disclosure compliance
Declaration as a Public Financial Institution requires corporate status under a central enactment, principal activity of industrial or infrastructural financing, minimum operational duration, specified income composition and net-worth thresholds. Registered Infrastructure Finance Companies and Housing Finance Companies must obtain a regulator's no-objection certificate addressing supervisory concerns and include disclosure of compliance with the Ministry's directions in their audited financial statements.

International crude oil price rise increases domestic rupee cost amid concurrent rupee depreciation and exchange rate movements.
International Crude Oil Price for the Indian Basket rose to US$ 106.95 per barrel on 22 May 2012, with the rupee price increasing to Rs 5,869.42 per barrel due to the dollar price rise and rupee depreciation; the PPAC release supplies day-to-day and fortnight comparisons and accompanying exchange-rate figures to show short-term price and exchange-rate movements.

Profitability decline prompts operational and cost-control measures to restore steel producer's margins amid input-cost pressures.
Profitability fell markedly between 2009-10 and 2010-11 and remained weak into 2011-12 due to higher input costs (notably imported coal), raised salary and wage bills, increased interest and depreciation, reduced interest earnings, higher mineral royalty, lower production and sales volumes, and adverse foreign exchange variation; higher net sales realisation only partially offset the decline. To improve profits the company is pursuing production and product mix optimisation, energy and process efficiencies, higher coal injection rates, asset disposals, increased by product and scrap sales, and tighter administrative cost control.

Counterfeit-note detection: mandatory machine authentication before reissuing high-denomination cash to prevent circulation of unauthenticated notes.
Banks must ensure banknotes of denominations of one hundred and above are authenticated by machines before reissuance over counters or through ATMs. This mandatory machine authentication conditions re-circulation of high-denomination notes and applies immediately to all branches irrespective of daily cash-volume, requiring realignment of cash-management processes so received high-denomination notes are not put back into circulation without machine processing for authenticity.

Machine authentication of high-denomination banknotes required before recirculation; applies to all branches, for counter and ATM issuance nationwide.
Banks must machine-authenticate banknotes of denomination one hundred and above before reissuing them over counters or through ATMs; no high-denomination cash receipts may be recirculated without machine verification. This instruction is effective immediately and applies to all bank branches regardless of daily cash volume, requiring re-alignment of cash management and branch-level compliance for sorting and processing of such notes.

EEFC conversion requirement: exchange earners must convert part of EEFC balances to rupees and limit foreign currency retention.
Regulators mandate that exchange earners convert a prescribed portion of existing EEFC balances into rupees within a short compliance period and report to the Foreign Exchange Department; for future forex receipts, only a reduced share may be retained in non interest bearing EEFC accounts while the remainder must be surrendered for conversion. EEFC balances must be used up before accessing the forex market, authorised dealers may require a declaration, and similar rules apply to Resident Foreign Currency and Diamond Dollar accounts.

Competition advisory group constituted to provide strategic market and advocacy guidance to the competition authority through periodic consultations.
Constitution of an Eminent Persons Advisory Group (EPAG) as a non decisionmaking consultative body to advise the Competition Commission of India on market and competition issues, advocacy strategies, and good international practices, with interdisciplinary membership from the corporate sector, academia, NGOs and regulatory institutions and periodic meetings to interact with the Commission.

ATM reimbursement duty: banks must promptly refund failed transactions, with daily penalties for unjustified delay.
Banks must reimburse customers for amounts debited in failed ATM transactions within seven days of a complaint; if reimbursement is not effected within that period, the bank is liable to pay a daily penalty of Rs100 for each day of delay.