Exemption under section 35AC extended for Pratham Delhi Education Initiative, granting eligible project status for a further three-year period.
The Central Government specifies Pratham Delhi Education Initiative in Delhi as an eligible project under section 35AC for a further three-year period commencing from financial year 2005-2006, without any change to the approved estimated cost, following the National Committee's recommendation under the Income-tax Rules that the project is being executed properly.

Exemption under section 35AC: cancer detection unit works and outreach camps specified for a further three-year eligibility extension.
The Central Government specifies as eligible for the section 35AC exemption the renovation, equipment and furnishing of a Cancer Detection Unit in Mumbai and cancer awareness, education and detection camps in specified Maharashtra districts carried out by Cancer Patients Aid Association; following the National Committee's recommendation under the income-tax rules, the project is extended for a further three-year period commencing with financial year 2005-2006 without change to the approved estimated cost.

Exemption under section 35AC extended for Prayas Juvenile Aid Centre project, renewing tax-deduction eligibility through notification.
The Central Government specifies that the Prayas Juvenile Aid Centre project is continued as an eligible project under section 35AC for a further three-year period commencing with financial year 2005-2006, following the National Committee's recommendation that the scheme is being executed properly and without any change in the previously approved estimated cost.

Section 35AC eligibility expanded for CRY Supported Development Project, increasing the approved project cost cap.
The Central Government specifies the CRY Supported Development Project by CRY (Child Relief and You) as an eligible scheme for deduction under Section 35AC and amends the earlier notification to substitute the previously stated maximum allowable project cost with a higher sanctioned amount, following the National Committee's recommendation to enhance the project cost.

Exemption under income-tax law: project specified for continuation and allowable project cost cap increased, including corpus fund.
The Central Government specifies Action for Autism's school and vocational training centre for autistic and multiple handicapped children as an eligible project for a further fixed period following the National Committee's recommendation, and amends the prior notification to increase the maximum project cost allowable for deduction, expressly including a corpus fund in the revised cap.

Exemption under Section 35AC extended for the Aravali Medical and Research Centre project for an additional one-year period.
The Central Government, on recommendation of the National Committee and under the powers of the Income tax Act, specified the project for construction, residential staff quarters, purchase of equipment and furnishing of the Aravali Medical and Research Centre carried out by Aravali Vikas Mandal as an eligible project under section 35AC for a further period commencing with the financial year 2005 2006, without any change in the approved estimated cost.

Tax exemption under section 35AC extended for charitable hospital project; eligibility renewed for one additional year.
The Central Government specified the Shri Chandracharya Dharmarth Chikitsalaya Trust project for purchase of equipment, vehicle and ambulance, furnishing, running medical services and research in herbal and ayurvedic medicines and treatment of diseases as an eligible project for the Income-tax exemption provision, and, on the Committee's recommendation that execution is proper, extended that specification for one additional year commencing from the financial year 2005-2006 without any change in the approved estimated cost.

Exemption under section 35AC extended for ENT Charitable Trust project, specified as eligible for one additional year.
The Central Government specifies the ENT Charitable Trust project for purchase of equipment and construction of a school and ear-care centre at Bandangari, Malad East, Mumbai as an eligible project under the Explanation to section 35AC, extending its specified status for one further year commencing with the financial year 2005-2006 without altering the approved estimated cost, pursuant to a committee recommendation under the Income-tax Rules that the project is being executed properly.

Exemption under section 35AC: free medical aid at Noida by Kailash Charitable Trust specified for a further three year period.
The Central Government specifies the project of running free medical aid services at Noida by Kailash Charitable Trust as an eligible project for income-tax exemption treatment, continuing prior notifications and extensions, noting the approved estimated cost at seventy-five lakhs and recording a recommendation by the National Committee that the project be further specified for an additional three-year period commencing in the stated financial year.

Exemption under section 35AC extended for eligible hospital project at Crozaria, reaffirming specification for further stipulated period.
The Central Government specifies the hospital construction, furnishing, equipping and running project at Crozaria, Distt. Mehsana, Gujarat by the named trust as an eligible project for exemption under section 35AC, preserving the approved estimated cost and extending eligibility for a further three years on recommendation of the National Committee for Promotion of Social and Economic Welfare.

Income-tax exemption extension: project-specific eligibility renewed for Integrated Rural Development for an additional three-year period.
The Central Government re-specifies the Integrated Rural Development scheme at Bharatpur and Raisen executed by Lupin Human Welfare and Research Foundation as an eligible project for a further three-year period commencing from financial year 2005-2006, without change to the approved estimated cost, following a committee recommendation that the project is being executed properly under the relevant Income-tax provision.

Tax exemption under section 35AC: AMCHA GHAR project specified as eligible and extended for a further term.
The Central Government specified AMCHA GHAR's project-purchase of land, construction of a home for destitute girls, a high school and technical institute, and operation of the project-as eligible for tax exemption under section 35AC; following a recommendation by the National Committee, the specification was extended for a further three years commencing from the stated financial year without change in the approved estimated cost.

Exemption under section 35AC extended for rural health camps; eligibility of the specified charitable trust reaffirmed for further period.
The Central Government specifies the project of Running of Health Camps in rural areas of all districts of Tamil Nadu carried out by Singhvi Charitable Trust as an eligible project under section 35AC for a further period of three years commencing with the financial year 2005-2006, without any change in the previously approved estimated cost, following the National Committee's recommendation that the project is being executed properly.

Section 35AC eligibility extended for Rotary Blood Bank project following National Committee recommendation and specified by Central Government.
The Central Government renewed the specification under section 35AC treating construction, furnishing and equipment purchase for the Rotary Blood Bank Project at Tughlakabad, executed by Rotary District 3010 Social Welfare Society, as an eligible project for tax-deduction purposes for a further three-year period from the stated financial year, confirming the previously approved estimated cost without change following a recommendation by the National Committee for Promotion of Social and Economic Welfare.

Section 35AC approval of specified charitable projects permits tax deductions for approved institutions for listed schemes.
Approval under section 35AC designates specific institutions and their eligible projects, specifying estimated project costs and the maximum amount of such costs allowable as a deduction under section 35AC. The listed amounts apply for the financial years 2005-06, 2006-07 and 2007-08, and the notification remains in force only for that three-year period. Subsequent substitutions noted in the notification amend certain cost figures within the operative Table.

Special Economic Zone notified for biotechnology project, designating specified villages and survey parcels for SEZ development.
Special Economic Zone notified for a biotechnology project, designating villages Herandanahalli, Yarandahalli and Kyalanasanahalli in Anekal Taluk with listed survey numbers and parcel extents as the SEZ area for the approved developer M/s. Biocon Limited at Jigani Link Road Industrial Area, with the notification recorded in the Gazette and signed by the Under Secretary.

Recognition certificate validity updated: certificates commence from plant evaluation visit and are renewable upon compliant application.
Certificates of recognition commence from the date of the plant visit by the Evaluation Committee and are issued for a five-year term; renewal requires submission of a renewal application with the requisite fee and completion of the prescribed procedural requirements, after which the certificate may be renewed for a further five-year period.

Tariff value fixation replaces table setting tariff benchmarks for specified palm and soyabean oils and brass scrap.
The Board, exercising powers under the Customs Act, substitutes the Table in Notification No.36/2001-Cus (N.T.) with a new Table prescribing tariff values per metric tonne for specified goods, including various grades of palm oil and palmolein, RBD products, crude soyabean oil, and brass scrap, thereby updating the non-tariff import valuation benchmarks set by the principal notification.

Institution notification under section 47(ix) grants conditional tax-notified status, subject to compliance with section 13(1)(c).
Notification under section 47(ix) designates Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, as a notified entity for the provision, subject to the condition that the provisions of section 13(1)(c) are not infringed and there is no change in the aims and objects or in the Rules and Regulations, thereby conferring conditional tax-notified status contingent on compliance with charitable-purpose limitations and stability of constitutive instruments.

Foreign company investment: venture capital funds may invest in securities of foreign companies subject to regulatory conditions.
Amendment inserts a definition of "a foreign company" into the Venture Capital Funds Regulations, adopting the Companies Act meaning, and permits venture capital funds to invest in securities of foreign companies, subject to conditions or guidelines issued by the Reserve Bank of India and the Board.