Desilting and transporting silt from mining tailing dams exempt from service tax as maintenance of water bodies.

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....Activity of desilting the tailing dam of NMDC and transporting the silt to their dump - Since these services are rendered with respect to the dam in question which is a water body, they get excluded and no service tax is payable on these services.....