Chairman designation under Section 35CCA: specified income-tax authorities empowered to head State/UT committees under CBDT notification. The Central Board of Direct Taxes, by Notification No. 51/2005 dated 11-2-2005 and in exercise of its statutory powers read with the relevant rules, empowers the Income-tax authorities specified in the Schedule to act as Chairmen of the Committee for the purposes of the provision concerning research-related approvals, assigning each named Chief Commissioner to a particular State or Union Territory.