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Amendment to Companies Act
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....mendment to Companies Act <br>News and Press Release<br>Dated:- 11-12-2015<br><BR>Section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013 mandates every company above a certain threshold to formulate a Corporate Socia....
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....l Responsibility (CSR) Policy, and to ensure that the company spends at least 2% of its average net profits made during the preceding three financial years, on CSR activities. Schedule VII of the Act,....
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.... enlists the activities that can be undertaken by the companies under their CSR policies. Item No. (viii) of Schedule VII covers 'relief and welfare of the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, othe....
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....r backward classes, minorities and women' as eligible CSR activities. Section 135 of the Act, Schedule VII and Companies CSR Policy Rules, 2014 read with General Circular dated 18.06.2014 issued by t....
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....he Ministry of Corporate Affairs, provide the broad contour within which eligible companies are required to formulate their CSR policies including activities to be undertaken and implement the same in....
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.... the right earnest. The decision to allocate CSR fund across various items of Schedule VII is taken by the Board of the Company under the provisions of the Act. This was stated by Shri Arun Jaitley, ....
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....Minister of Corporate Affairs in written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today.<BR> News - Press release - PIB....