Approval under section 10(23G) transferred to successor entity, subject to compliance with original conditions, effective immediately.
Approval under section 10(23G) granted to the Rajasthan State Electricity Board for the Suratgarh Thermal Power Station units is transferred to Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd., effective from the notified date, and the transferee must comply with all conditions stipulated for the original grantee in the earlier notifications.

Research institution approval under section 35(1)(iii) requires separate research accounts and specified annual reporting and audited filings.
Approval is granted to M. S. Chellamuthu Trust and Research Foundation as an Institution under section 35(1)(iii) for 1-4-2000 to 31-3-2003 subject to conditions: maintain separate books for research; furnish annual scientific research return to the Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research by 31st May; and submit audited annual accounts and audited income and expenditure account for research activities to the Director-General of Income-tax (Exemptions), the Secretary, DSIR, and the Commissioner/Director of Income-tax (Exemptions) by 31st October each year, in addition to the return to the designated Assessing Officer.

Research-expenditure deduction approval: notified association must maintain accounts and meet annual reporting and audit requirements.
Approval under section 35(1)(ii) recognises an association's scientific research activities and conditions tax-related recognition on maintaining separate research accounts, filing an annual scientific research return to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research by 31 May, and submitting audited annual accounts plus a research income and expenditure account to designated tax and administrative authorities by 31 October, alongside the regular return of income.

Customs duty exemption for Special Economic Zone units subject to bond, NFEP compliance, recordkeeping and conditional penalties.
Exemption from basic customs duty and additional duty is allowed for goods imported into or procured for use by units within a Special Economic Zone for manufacture, processing, assembly, trading, repair, packaging and related activities, provided the unit is authorised by the Development Commissioner, executes a bond undertaking use and disposal in accordance with the Export and Import Policy, maintains prescribed accounts and achieves positive Net Foreign Exchange Earning as a Percentage of Exports; failure to meet conditions triggers duty liability proportional to shortfall and interest, and customs may permit controlled temporary removals and transfers under conditions.

Tax approval for conservation projects granted with conditional reporting, separate donation accounts, and potential retrospective withdrawal.
Approval is granted to M/s Green Ray Foundation for specified conservation programmes, including afforestation, wasteland recovery, natural resource management demonstrations, and construction of an earthen dam/lake, valid from 1 April 2000 to 31 March 2001 and subject to conditions requiring a separate donations account, progress reporting to the prescribed authority by 30 June 2001, submission of annual accounts to the prescribed authority and tax commissioner by 30 June 2001, and potential retrospective withdrawal by the prescribed authority.

Tax approval under section 10(23G) granted for a BOT toll-road project, conditional on compliance and audited accounts.
Central Government approval under section 10(23G) read with rule 2E is granted for specified assessment years to the enterprise carrying out the widening and strengthening of SH No. 41 on a BOT basis. The approval is conditional on compliance with the cited provision and rule, maintenance and audit of books of account as required, and furnishing of the audit report, and may be withdrawn if the enterprise ceases the infrastructure activity or fails to meet the accounting or reporting requirements.

Approval transfer under section 10(23G): exemption for Suratgarh stations moved to state generation company subject to conditions.
Approval for tax-exempt status granted for the Suratgarh Thermal Power Stations is transferred from the Rajasthan State Electricity Board to the State generation company effective 19 July 2000, on the condition that the transferee will comply with all conditions previously stipulated for the original approved board in the earlier notifications.

Research exemption approval requires separate research accounts and annual audited submissions to tax and science departments.
M.S. Chellamuthu Trust and Research Foundation, Madurai, is approved as an institution eligible for research-related income-tax exemption for 1 4 2000 to 31 3 2003, subject to maintaining separate research accounts; filing an annual return of scientific research activities to the Department of Scientific & Industrial Research by 31 May; and submitting audited annual accounts and audited research income & expenditure accounts to designated income-tax and science department authorities by 31 October each year, in addition to filing the income-tax return to the assessing officer.

Research expenditure deduction approval requires separate research accounts, annual scientific returns, and audited account submissions.
Approval under the Income-tax Act research deduction provision is conditioned on maintaining separate books for research activities, filing an annual return of scientific research activities by 31 May, and submitting by 31 October each year audited annual accounts and audited income & expenditure accounts for the research activities to the relevant tax exemption office, the central scientific department, and the local tax commissioner/director, in addition to the regular income-tax return.

Designation of authority: Chairperson India Trade Promotion Organisation appointed as designated authority under anti-dumping rules.
Appointment under sub-rule (1) of rule 3 designates an officeholder to perform identification, assessment and collection functions for anti-dumping duty and to determine injury, superseding an earlier notification; the appointment remains in force until further orders.

Excise duty exemption for SEZ procurements permits duty free inputs from DTA subject to bonds and NFE compliance.
Goods specified in the Central Excise Tariff brought by an authorised SEZ unit from other parts of India for establishment, manufacture, processing, services, packaging, trading, repair or related export activities are exempt from excise and specified additional duties subject to conditions including Development Commissioner authorisation, direct procurement, execution of a bond securing use and achievement of positive NFE, maintenance of prescribed accounts and submission of periodic statements, and payment of duty and interest proportionate to any NFE shortfall or unutilised goods.

Excise exemption for tubular knitted gas mantle fabric established, removing duty for fabric used in incandescent gas mantles.
A new Table entry exempts tubular knitted gas mantle fabric, described for use in incandescent gas mantles, by specifying a nil rate of excise duty and thereby expanding the principal notification's schedule of exempted goods under the tariff framework.

Anti-dumping duty on Trimethoprim imposed for imports from China, applying to specified exporters and all others.
Imposition of anti-dumping duty on Trimethoprim from the People's Republic of China after findings of dumping, material injury to the domestic industry, and causation by those imports; duty applies to named exporters and all others at specified per-kilogramme rates, is payable in Indian currency, remains effective for the period stated in the notification, and uses the Finance Ministry's notified rate of exchange with the bill of entry date as the relevant date for exchange determination.

Customs exemption amendment: deletion of a scheduled entry and removal of the Explanation narrows the prior exemption.
The Central Government, exercising powers under the Customs Act, issues an amendment deleting Sl. No. 12A and its related entries from the Table of the principal exemption notification and omits the Explanation, thereby modifying the scope of the earlier exemption instrument.

Rescission of customs notifications: three exemption notifications withdrawn while preserving prior acts and omissions.
The government, invoking its power under the Customs Act on public interest grounds, rescinds three specified miscellaneous exemption notifications of the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), identified by their original notification numbers and dates, and provides that the rescission does not affect things done or omitted to be done before such rescission.

Export duty on leather fixed: specified categories exempt beyond prescribed duty rates when exported from India.
The notification fixes export duty ceilings for specified leather goods under Heading No. 14 by exempting exports from any customs duty in excess of amounts calculated at the rates shown in the Table. It enumerates leather categories with applicable rates (including Nil entries) and defines "finished leather of goat, sheep and bovine animals and of their young ones" by reference to the Government of India Public Notice No. 3/ITC(PN)/92-97, as amended.

Export duty on hides and skins increased; tariff schedule amended to raise duty rate for tanned and untanned leathers.
The Central Government directed an amendment to the Second Schedule of the Customs Tariff Act by substituting the entry in column (3) for Heading No. 14 with a revised export duty rate, affecting hides, skins and leathers, tanned and untanned, and excluding manufactured leather goods under other headings.

Customs amendment updates exempt feed grade amino acids, specifying L lysine, L lysine monohydrochloride and methionine variants.
The Central Government amends the principal customs exemption notification by substituting the Table entry against S.No.72 in column (3) to list specifically the feed-grade products: L lysine, L lysine monohydrochloride, DL methionine and methionine hydroxy analog, thereby limiting the exemption benefit to those enumerated compounds.

Tax exemption under section 10(23C)(vi) recognised for an educational society subject to compliance and accounting conditions.
Notification grants tax exemption to the National Education Society of Karnataka, Bangalore for assessment years 1999-2000 to 2001-2002 subject to conditions: application of income wholly to objects, restricted modes of investment as permitted by section 11(5) (excluding certain voluntary contributions), exclusion of business income unless incidental and separately accounted, regular filing of income-tax returns, and transfer of surplus and assets on dissolution to a similar charitable organisation.

Customs handling of imports and exports: amendment specifies unloading of imported goods and loading of export goods at Dharmtar.
Exercising powers under clause (a) of section 7 of the Customs Act, 1962, the Government amends Notification No. 62/94-Customs (NT) by substituting, for Dharmtar (serial 8, item (2) in the Maharashtra schedule), the column (4) entry to read: "Unloading of imported goods and loading of export goods or any class of such goods."