Eligible project designation under income tax extended for hospice and rural outreach programmes after committee recommendation. The Central Government re-notifies the outpatient and home-based hospice services, mobile rural hospice outreach, and integrated community hospice programmes for AIDS operated by the Chennai charitable foundation as eligible projects under the Income-tax Act for a further three-year period beginning with the financial year 2013-14, on the recommendation of the National Committee and without any change in the approved project cost.