Tax benefit eligibility for charitable cancer care extended under section 35AC, authorising continuation of free food and drugs provision. The Central Government specifies under the Explanation to section 35AC that the scheme providing free food and anti cancer drugs to poor cancer patients in general wards of the Cancer Institute at Chennai, executed by The Cancer Institute (WIA) Trust, is an eligible project for a further three year period commencing financial year 2007 08; this specification follows the National Committee's recommendation and is made without any change in the previously approved cost as corpus fund only.