Standard Operating Procedure on Regulatory Action against malpractices in disposal of Used Cooking Oil
The SOP shall be strictly enforced to ensure that UCO is utilized only for manufacturing of intended products and is not redirected to food supply chain by the FSSAI enrolled biodiesel plants or manufacturers of soap, lubricant etc.
ESIC notifies relaxation in eligibility condition of 2 years insurable employment before unemployment and contributory condition of Atal Beemit Vyakti Kalyan Yojana.
The Insured Person should have been in insurable employment for a minimum period of 12 months immediately before his/her unemployment and should have contributed for not less than 78 days in the one completed contribution period in 12 months immediately preceding to unemployment.
UGC issues revised guidelines for National Fellowship for Scheduled Caste Students (NFSC).
The objective of the scheme is to provide fellowships in the form of financial assistance to students belonging to SC category to pursue higher studies leading to M.Phil/Ph.D in science, Humanities, Social Science, in Indian universities/institutions/colleges recognised by university grant commission.
SEBI to introduce special situation funds as a sub-category under category I AIFs.
Each scheme of SSF shall have a corpus of at least one hundred crore rupees and shall accept an investment of value not less than ten crore rupees from an investor. In case of an accredited investor, the SSF shall accept an investment of value not less than five crore rupees. Further, in case of investors who are employees or directors of the SSF or employees or directors of the manager of the SSF, the minimum value of investment shall be twenty-five lakh rupees.
The Central Motor Vehicles (Draft Amendment) Rules, 2022.
The in-use vehicles fitted with CNG kits shall meet the type approval emission norms on CNG operation, as specified in these rules for gasoline vehicles as applicable to the corresponding year of manufacturer of such vehicles, subject to a minimum norms as under:- for the vehicles manufactured on and after the 1st day of April 2016, the type approval norms as applicable, subject to minimum of Bharat Stage-IV emission norms for two and three wheeler.”
New functionality of interest calculator in GSTR-3B is now live on the GST Portal.
The facility would be similar to the collection of Late fees for GSTR-3B, filed after the Due date, posted in the next period’s GSTR-3B.
CPCB publishes Environmental Guidelines For Poultry Farms.
The poultry farms under small category are in un-organized sector run by economically weaker farmers and are of rural background. The Poultry Farms are categorized under “Green” Category, therefore validity of consent will be 15 yrs.
Government of Tamil Nadu notifies the interest rate on state Industrial Employees Contributory Provident Fund.
The rate of interest on the deposits and balances in the account of each member of the Tamil Nadu Government Industrial Employees Contributory Provident Fund for the financial year 2020-2021 shall be 8.50%.
Securities and Exchange Board of India (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices relating to Securities Market) (Amendment) Regulations, 2022.
Dealing in securities shall be deemed to be a fraudulent or an unfair trade practice if it involves fraud and may include “disseminating information or advice through any media, whether physical or digital, which the disseminator knows to be false or misleading in a reckless or careless manner and which is designed to, or likely to influence the decision of investors dealing in securities”
DGFT imposes restriction on Human hair export.
The export policy of human hair, unworked whether or not washed or scoured, waste of human hair or any other form of raw human hair under ITC (HS) Code 0501 has been put under restricted category.
