Exemption under the Income-tax provision extended for People for Animals project, maintaining prior cost approval and eligibility. Exemption under section 35AC of the Income-tax Act is extended to the People for Animals scheme-covering maintenance of animal hospitals or shelters, purchase of medicine, feed, ambulances and animal awareness programmes-for a further three-year period beginning with financial year 2008-09, without any change to the previously approved project cost, following the National Committee's recommendation under the Income-tax Rules that the project is being executed properly.