Saturday 10 November 2012

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Aadhaar based Direct Cash Transfers - Rollout to begin from 1 January 2013 in 51 districts, Half the country to be covered by 1.4.2013


            A meeting of the Executive Committee on Direct Cash Transfers was held today by the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister along with the Cabinet Secretary. The  meeting was attended by the Secretaries and representatives of the Departments of  Financial Services, UIDAI (Aadhaar), IT, Planning Commission,  Expenditure, Posts, Rural Development, Social Justice & Empowerment, Tribal Affairs, Minority Affairs, Higher Education, School Education, Health & Family Welfare, Women & Child Development, Labour & Employment, Petroleum & Natural Gas, Fertilizers, and Food & Public Distribution.
            The Prime Minister had recently constituted a National Committee on Direct Cash Transfers under his chairmanship and an Executive Committee on Direct Cash Transfers to give a thrust to roll out a cash transfer programme across the country, leveraging the Aadhaar platform.
            The purpose of the meeting today was to move forward and operationalise Direct Cash Transfers for which many steps need to be taken. The necessary steps include (i) identification of areas where Direct Cash Transfers can be introduced, (ii) establishing mechanisms for preparing rollout plans for these areas, (iii) ensuring rapid rollout of Aadhaar to achieve better coverage (at least 80%), (iv) ensuring universal access to banking and financial inclusion and (v) setting up mechanisms to enable cash transfers to actually take place. To facilitate all this, there is a need to constitute other committees including a Technology Committee, a Financial Inclusion Committee and Implementation Committees within each Ministry so as to ensure coordination and quick implementation.
            The agenda for the meeting was to:
i.                        Explain to all committee members the rationale and purpose of Direct Cash Transfers and the institutional architecture that has been put in place for the rollout.
ii.                     Finalise the constitution and composition of the Implementation Committees.
    iii.            Identify areas for introducing Direct Cash Transfers and make arrangements for finalising roadmaps for rollout in each area, keeping in view the roadmap already prepared for Direct Cash Transfers of LPG Subsidy.
            Based on the extensive discussions that took place and the issues raised by the participants, the following decisions were taken in the meeting:
      i.            All departments engaged in transferring benefits to individual beneficiaries will quickly move to an electronic Direct Cash Transfer system, based on an Aadhaar Payment Bridge/ Platform.
      ii.           They will identify the schemes to move to this system and also prepare a roadmap with timelines so that the rollout is smooth and fast. The roadmap for each scheme will broadly have the following timelines:


a.      51 districts                     -           from 1 January 2013
b.      18 states                      -           from 1 April 2013
c.       16 states                      -           from 1 April 2014 or earlier.                                    
    iii.            The list of schemes, roadmaps, and timelines will be sent to the Planning Commission and PMO by 20 November 2012
    iv.            UIDAI will set up a dedicated cell of technical experts in UIDAI to facilitate Aaadhaar enabled Direct Cash Transfers and help individual Ministries.
      v.            Department of Financial Services will go for universal Financial Inclusion through individual Bank Accounts for all in line with the roadmap.
    vi.            UIDAI will rollout Aadhaar speedily in line with the roadmap.
  vii.            Departments will work towards digitising their databases quickly, particularly at the state level with the help of state governments, DeITy and NIC to ensure convergence.
            The Prime Minister will be holding the first meeting of the National Committee on Direct Cash Transfers on 26 November 2012 where the roadmap and timelines will be presented.
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Indo-Israel revelry on postal dept's new release

ALLAHABAD: Department of Posts has set rolling celebration of Deepawali. While special arrangements are being made for distribution of Deepawali greetings timely, a twin-set of postage stamps depicting Deepawali have been issued by India and Israel.
Director postal services Allahabad region Krishna Kumar Yadav said the stamps of Rs 5 denomination are being issued on the occasion of completion of 20 years diplomatic relations between India and Israel.
The festival of lights is celebrated as Deepawali in India and as 'Hanuka' in Israel.
'Deepawali' is the festival of lights and celebrated on the eve of 'Amavasya' in the Hindu month of Kartik in India.
The Hanuka is also celebrated as festival of lights in Israel. This is Jewish holiday festival of eight days started before 2{+n}{+d} century BC at the time of the Maccabean Revolt in Jerusalem at the time of re-dedication of holy temple in the form of memorials.
The candles are lit on windows and doors in a traditional way and this is also lit on nine-branched Menorah and also as Hanuka special lamps. The postal stamps are available in Philately Bureau, Allahabad head post office and Allahabad Kutchery head post office too.
Source : The Times of India, 7 Nov., 2012

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Medical Disability during the course of employment


Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) says the employee should be reinstated as the disability occurred  during the course of employment

The Central Administrative Tribunal on Monday came to the rescue of a BSNL junior technical officer (JTO) left partially paralysed by a stroke, directing the principal chief engineer of BSNL, Tamil Nadu zone, to allow him to report for duty in his post. The tribunal said the telecom company would have to accept the decision of the medical board and endorse the leave application of the JTO, M Manoharan.
The judicial member of the tribunal, G Shanthappa, said Manoharan had established that he should be granted relief and quashed a September 23, 2011 order that refused to allow the petitioner to rejoin as JTO . Manoharan suffered a massive stroke on June 1, 2002 that paralysed his arms and legs. He was not able to speak and was under continuous treatment for two years.
The respondents in the case included the Executive Engineer (civil), the Superintending Engineer and sub-pision engineer (civil) of BSNL in Ambattur. “A competent medical authority examined the applicant and stated that the applicant suffered medical disability during the course of employment. The stand taken by the respondents is rejected,” Justice Shanthappa said.
Manoharan told the tribunal that he applied for leave after the stroke and returned to duty on January 12, 2004. However, the chief engineer of Chennai Telephones, KK Nagar, the fourth respondent, directed the petitioner to appear before the medical board and obtain its opinion whether his fitness allowed him to perform his duty as JTO.
As advised by the board, he proceeded on ‘commuted leave’ for 90 days from September 13, 2010 and underwent various treatments including physiotherapy. But his seniors did not permit him to rejoin duty. They informed him that the regional medical board of Government General Hospital had on December 10, 2010 declared that he was medically unfit to perform his duties as JTO.
“The respondents did not accept the medical report of the applicant and did now allow him to rejoin duty,” said the tribunal’s administrative member, R Satapathy. “The stand of the respondents is not correct. It is illegal and violates of principles of natural justice.”
Citing the Supreme Court’s 2008 order in Bhagwan Dass vs Punjab Electricity Board, Justice Shanthappa said Manoharan had submitted documents to show that his medical disability had occurred while in service, and this was confirmed by Government General Hospital, so the respondents could not refuse to reinstate him.
Source: Times of India

THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT HRA AND TAX BENEFITS

House Rent Allowance (HRA), is an important component in our salary slips, with upto 30% of basic pay (+DP) in metros. HRA is the allowance given to meet the staff's expenses towards renting an accommodation. Though very simple in concept and calculation, the tax implications of the HRA, puzzles many a people. Here are 7 must knows, to help you utilise this component of your salary in a tax efficient manner.
1) Conditions you need to satisfy for a HRA exemption
Under Section 10 of the Income Tax Act, certain exemptions are permissible on the received HRA. To claim such exemptions one must satisfy the below conditions.
The employee must not own the property in which he is residing.
Employees must be paying rent for the accommodation in which residing.
Such rent must be more than 10 per cent of his/her salary (see section 5).  
if not, an exemption cannot be availed if there is no HRA component in the salary.
2) Calculating HRA for tax exemption
HRA tax exemption is based on the HRA received, basic pay, actual rent paid as well as if you stay in metro or non-metro. The amount exempted from the tax calculations is the least of the following.
The actual rental allowance paid by the employer as part of the salary.
The actual rent paid, from which, 10% of the basic pay is deducted,
50% of the basic salary if residing in a metro or 40% if in a non-metro.
3) HRA benefits in case of rent paid to parents
If you are residing in a house owned by your parents and you are paying rent to them, technically, they are the landlords. You could, thus, claim an exemption, provided they show the same transaction in their income tax returns.
Rent to husband/wife are not permissible, as a husband and wife relationship is not considered commercial and are also are meant to stay together.
4) Proof to be submitted for HRA claims
If the house rent paid is upto Rs. 3000 per month, then rent receipt is not mandatory. Otherwise you will have to submit the rent receipt proofs to claim the tax deduction. A one rupee revenue stamp affixed with the signature of landlord receiving the rent, with other details of the rented address, rent paid and name of the person who rents it, need to be mentioned on the receipt.
5) Meaning of salary for HRA calculation
Salary for HRA purposes is as follows:
Basic salary (Basic Pay plus Dearness Pay)
Dearness Allowance
Commissions earned if any
This salary will not include arrears of earlier years, received during the previous year for which the claim is made.
6) You could claim HRA exemption as well as a home loan tax benefit at the same time
HRA exemption could be availed even if you are claiming a home loan tax benefit. For a home loan, tax benefits are available towards the repayment of principal. So, as long as you meet the criteria for a home loan deduction as well for a HRA exemption, you could go ahead and claim both tax benefits. This could be possible, in cases where you may be working in another city.
7) Period in which HRA exemption can be claimed
The period in which the HRA is actually received from the employer, must necessarily pertain to the period in which the employee actually pays rent for his accommodation. In case HRA is received for a period in which no rental accommodation is occupied by the employee, exemption cannot be claimed.

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