-The Economic Times The deadline for linking of PAN and Aadhar had been extended several times and now the new deadline is March 31, 2020. So, if a person doesn’t link his PAN with Aadhar by the said date, his PAN shall be inoperative. As per Section 139AA of the Income Tax Act, every person who has been allotted PAN and who is eligible to obtain Aadhaar, shall intimate his Aadhaar...
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How India's game-changing tax bypasses the farmer -Garima Singh
-The Economic Times Indian farmer's plight has changed little even under GST that aims to revolutionise all kinds of businesses. NEW DELHI: That the farmer has historically had one of the most unrewarding and thankless jobs in India is fairly common knowledge. Data sets after data sets show how Indian farmers have remained hopelessly caught between ineffective policy and equally ineffective implementation — through the Five-Year-Plans era, through successive governments, and through...
More »Odisha: Braille press gets machine to print HS books -Hrusikesh Mohanty
-The Times of India BERHAMPUR (Odisha): Visually impaired Plus II students can look forward to Braille text books, as well as literary works in Odia, from the next academic year. The Red Cross Braille Press here — the state’s only Braille press, which has been supplying text books to schools for the past 33 years — will be able to print text books for Plus II students thanks to the installation...
More »Only 5 states have rolled out new MV Act -Dipak K Dash
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Only five states — Gujarat, Uttarakhand, Kerala, Karnataka and Assam — have implemented the amended Motor Vehicles Act nearly five weeks after the Centre notified the new law. Sources said some state transport departments have forwarded the proposal with revised fines to the respective governments for early notification. “The proposed notification specifying the fines and penalties needs approval of the government. We have suggested fixing the...
More »Women sarpanchs tell UN how rural India's power structure is changing
-IANS In the early days after the quota of women's elected membership -- initially 33 per cent and later raised to 50 per cent in 20 of the 28 states -- was introduced, many women were acting as proxies for their male relative. UNITED NATIONS: Two women sarpanchs have brought to the UN the story of India changing the rural power structure by empowering women through a programme of gender equality that...
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