RBI/2017-18/12 A.P.(DIR Series) Circular No. 48 July 3, 2017 To, All Authorized Persons Madam / Sir Investment by Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPI) in Government Securities Medium Term Framework – Review Attention of Authorised Dealer Category-I (AD Category-I) banks is invited to Schedule 5 to the Foreign Exchange Management (Transfer or Issue of Security by a Person Resident outside India) Regulations, 2000 notified videNotification No. FEMA.20/2000-RB dated May 3, 20...

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RBI/2017-18/11 FIDD.FID.BC.No.02/12.01.033/2017-18 July 03, 2017 The Chairman/ Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer All Scheduled Commercial Banks Madam/ Dear Sir Master Circular on SHG-Bank Linkage Programme The Reserve Bank of India has, from time to time, issued a number of guidelines/instructions to banks on SHG-Bank Linkage Programme. In order to enable the banks to have instructions at one place, theMaster Circularincorporating the existing guidelines/instructions o...

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RBI/2017-18/10 FIDD.GSSD.CO.BC.No.04/09.01.01/2017-18 July 01, 2017 The Chairman/ Managing Director & CEO All Scheduled Commercial Banks Dear Sir/Madam, Master Circular – Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana - National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM) Please refer to theMaster Circular FIDD.GSSD.CO.BC.No.07/09.01.01/2016-17 dated July 01, 2016consolidating guidelines / instructions / directions issued to banks with regards to Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana - National Rural Livel...

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RBI/2017-2018/8 FIDD.CO.LBS.BC.No.1/02.01.001/2017-18 July 3, 2017 The Chairman and Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer SLBC Convenor Banks/Lead Banks Dear Sir/Madam MASTER CIRCULAR – Lead Bank Scheme The Reserve Bank of India has issued guidelines on Lead Bank Scheme from time to time. ThisMaster Circularconsolidates the relevant guidelines issued by Reserve Bank of India on Lead Bank Scheme up to June 30, 2017 as listed in the Appendix. 2. This Master Circular h...

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RBI/2017-18/7 FIDD.CO.GSSD.BC.No.06/09.09.001/2017-18 July 01, 2017 The Chairman / Managing Director & CEO All Scheduled Commercial Banks Dear Sir, Master Circular - Credit facilities to Scheduled Castes (SCs) & Scheduled Tribes (STs) Please refer to theMaster Circular FIDD.CO.GSSD.BC.No.03/09.09.001/2016-17 dated July 01, 2016consolidating guidelines / Instructions / directions issued to banks with regard to providing credit facilities to Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Sche...

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RBI/2017-2018/6 FIDD.GSSD.BC.No.05/09.10.01/2017-18 July 01, 2017 The Chairman/ Managing Director All Scheduled Commercial Banks (Excluding RRBs and Foreign banks with less than 20 branches) Dear Sir, Master Circular- Credit Facilities to Minority Communities Please refer to ourMaster Circular FIDD.GSSD.BC.No.01/09.10.01/2016-17 dated July 01, 2016(Updated as on September 29, 2016), co...

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RBI/2017-18/5 FIDD.GSSD.CO.BC.No.03/09.16.03/2017-18 July 1, 2017 The Chairman/ Managing Director & CEO All Scheduled Commercial Banks Dear Sir/Madam, Master Circular – Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM) Reserve Bank of India has periodically issued instructions to banks with regard to operationalisation of the Government of India’s National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM). The Ministry of Housing & Urban Po...

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RBI/2017-18/4 FIDD.CO.FSD.BC.No.7/05.05.010/2017-18 July 3, 2017 The Chairman / Managing Director /Chief Executive Officer All Scheduled Commercial Banks (including Small Finance Banks and excluding RRBs) Madam/Sir, Master Circular - Kisan Credit Card (KCC) Scheme The Reserve Bank of India has issued guidelines on Kisan Credit Card (KCC) scheme from time to time. This Master Circular consolidates the relevant guidelines issued by the Bank on Kisan Credit Card scheme upto June 30...

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RBI/2017-18/3 DCM(NE)No.G - 1/08.07.18/2017-18 July 03, 2017 The Chairman and Managing Director / The Managing Director/ The Chief Executive Officer All Banks Madam / Dear Sir Master Circular – Facility for Exchange of Notes and Coins Please refer to theMaster Circular DCM(NE)No. G-1/08.07.18/2016-17 dated July 18, 2016containing instructions on the facility for exchange of notes and coins. A revised version of Master Circular on the subject isannexedfor your information...

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RBI/2017-18/2 DGBA.GBD.No.2/31.12.010/2017-18 July 1, 2017 All Agency Banks Dear Sir / Madam Master Circular on Conduct of Government Business by Agency Banks - Payment of Agency Commission Please refer to ourMaster Circular RBI/2015-16/81 dated July 1, 2015on the above subject. We have now revised and updated the Master Circular which consolidates important instructions on the subject issued by the Reserve Bank of India till June 30, 2017. 2. A copy of the revisedMaster Circu...

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RBI/2017-18/1 DGBA.GBD.No.-1/31.05.001/2017-18 July 1, 2017 All Agency Banks Dear Sir/Madam Master Circular - Disbursement of Government Pension by Agency Banks Please refer to ourMaster Circular RBI/2015-16/63 dated July 1, 2015on the above subject. We have now revised and updated the Master Circular which consolidates important instructions on the subject issued by the Reserve Bank of India till June 30, 2017. 2. A copy of the revisedMaster Circularis enclosed for your infor...

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G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 6 of the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (13 of 2017), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, on the recommendations of the Council, hereby exempts, the inward supplies of goods, the description of which is specified in column (3) of the Table below, falling under the tariff item, sub-heading, heading or Chapter, as the case may be, as specified in ...

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G.S.R.….(E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by section 20 of the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (13 of 2017), read with sub-sections (1) and (3) of section 50, sub-section (12) of section 54 and section 56 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (12 of 2017), the Central Government, on the recommendations of the Council, hereby fixes the rate of interest per annum, for the purposes of the sections as specified in column (2) of the Table below, as mentioned in th...

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G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by section 22 of the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (13 of 2017) read with section 20 of the said Act, the Central Government hereby makes the following rules, namely:-...

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G.S.R. …..(E).— In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (3) of section 1 of the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (13 of 2017), the Central Government hereby appoints the 1st day of July, 2017, as the date on which the provisions of sections 4 to 13, 16 to 19, 21, 23 to 25 of the said Act, shall come into force...

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G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 6 of the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (13 of 2017), the Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, on the recommendations of the Council, hereby exempts inter-State supplies of goods, the description of which is specified in column (3) of the Table below read with relevant List appended hereto and falling under the tariff item, sub-heading, heading or Chapt...

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G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 6 of the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (13 of 2017), the Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, on the recommendations of the Goods and Services Tax Council, hereby exempts inter-State supplies of goods, the description of which is specified in column (3) of the Schedule appended to this notification, falling under the tariff item, sub-heading, heading o...

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G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 5 of the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (13 of 2017), the Central Government, on the recommendations of the Council, hereby notifies the rate of the integrated tax of- (i) 5 per cent. in respect of goods specified in Schedule I, (ii) 12 per cent. in respect of goods specified in Schedule II, (iii) 18 per cent. in respect of goods specified in Schedule III, (iv) 28 per cent. in respect of goods speci...

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G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by section 20 of the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (13 of 2017) read with section 55 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (12 of 2017), the Central Government, on the recommendations of the Council, hereby specifies the Canteen Stores Department (hereinafter referred to as the CSD), under the Ministry of Defence, as a person who shall be entitled to claim a refund of fifty per cent. of the applicable integrated tax paid by...

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G.S.R. (E).- In pursuance of sub-rule (1) of rule 26 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Rules, 2017, the Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby makes the following amendment in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No.6/2017-Central Tax, dated the 19th June, 2017, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 608 (E), dated the 19th June, 2017, namely:-...

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G.S.R. …..(E).— In pursuance of the first proviso to rule 46 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Rules, 2017, the Central Board of Excise and Customs, on the recommendations of the Council, hereby notifies that a registered person having annual turnover in the preceding financial year as specified in column (2) of the Table below shall mention the digits of Harmonised System of Nomenclature (HSN) Codes, as specified in the corresponding entry in column (3) of the said Table, in a ...

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G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (ii) of the proviso to sub-section (3) of section 54 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (12 of 2017) read with section 20 of the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (13 of 2017) the Central Government, on the recommendations of the Council, hereby notifies the goods, the description of which is specified in column (3) of the Table below and falling under the tariff item, heading, sub-heading or Chapter, as the case m...

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G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (3) of section 5 of the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (13 of 2017), the Central Government, on the recommendations of the Council, hereby specifies the supply of goods, the description of which is specified in column (3) of the Table below and falling under the tariff item, subheading, heading or Chapter, as the case may be, as specified in the corresponding entry in column (2) of the said Table, made by the person as ...

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G.S.R. ( )E.:- In exercise of the powers conferred by section 164 of the Central Goods and Services tax Act, 2017 (12 of 2017), the Central Government, hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Central Goods and Services Tax Rules, 2017, namely:-...

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G.S.R. …..(E).— In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (3) of section 1 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (12 of 2017), the Central Government hereby appoints the 1st day of July, 2017, as the date on which the provisions of sections 6 to 9, 11 to 21, 31 to 41, 42 except the proviso to sub-section (9) of section 42, 43 except the proviso to sub-section (9) of section 43, 44 to 50, 53 to 138, 140 to 145, 147 to 163, 165 to 174 of the said Act, shall come int...

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1. Comprehensive guidelines on Offer for Sale of Shares through stock exchange mechanism were issued vide circular no CIR/MRD/DP/18/2012 dated July 18, 2012. These guidelines have been modified from time to time based on the representation/suggestion received from various stakeholders. 2. Based on the representation received and in order to further streamline the process of OFS with an objective to encourage greater participation by employees, the existing provision with respect to restriction ...

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In exercise of the powers conferred by Clause (91) of section 2 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (12 of 2017) (hereinafter referred to as the Act) read with Section 20 of the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act (13 of 2017) and subject to sub-section (2) of section 5 of the said Act, the Board, hereby assigns the officers mentioned in Column (2) of the Table below, the functions as the proper officers in relation to the various sections of the of the said Act or the rules made t...

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RBI/2016-17/327 DGBA.GBD.No.3333/31.02.007/2016-17 June 22, 2017 All Agency Banks Dear Sir / Madam Payment of agency commission for government receipts Please refer toCircular No. DGBA.GAD.7575/31.12.011/2011-12 dated May 22, 2012regarding the rationalisation and revision of agency commission payable to agency banks on government transactions undertaken by them. 2. As you are aware, the agency commission on government receipts is paid by Reserve Bank per transaction basis. In ...

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RBI/2016-17/326 DBR.No.Leg.BC.76/09.07.005/2016-17 June 22, 2017 All Scheduled Commercial Banks (including RRBs) All Small Finance Banks and Payments Banks Dear Sir/ Madam, Recording of Details of Transactions in Passbook/ Statement of Account Please refer to instructions contained in Paragraphs 6 and 7 of ourcircular DBOD.No.Leg.BC.74/09.07.005/2003-04 dated April 10, 2004on "Committee on Procedures and Performance Audit on Public Services - Report No. 3 - Banking Operatio...

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MINISTRY OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS NOTIFICATION New Delhi, the 22nd June, 2017 G.S.R. 621(E).– In exercise of the powers conferred by section 139 read with sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 469 of the Companies Act, 2013 (18 of 2013), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, namely:- 1. Short title and commencement.- (1) These rules may be called the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Second Amendment...

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