Siddhivinayak Temple Trust PAN Number
The famous Siddhivinayak Ganpati Temple at Prabhadevi Mumbai accept donations running in Billions of Indian Rupees yet doesn’t publish PAN Number on the receipt which can be used to avail Income Tax benefit under section 80/G.
We have personally verified the PAN Card the Siddhivinayak Ganpati Temple Trust and the PAN Number of the same is AACTS4584R. While filing e-tax returns, the software will ask for the Donee’s [Amount Receiver] PAN Number without which the filling will not take place.
365 MN Indians Reach Employment age by 2025
By 2025E, 365 mn people would have reached employment age. We anticipate 11 mn people will look for employment every year. India has historically created employment to the tune of 6.5-7 mn per year, implying India can face significant challenges in employment creation should growth derail even slightly. India will be young for long, relative to most countries.
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The man who saved India during Global Economic Crisis – Dr. Y. V Reddy
This is reference to an article that appeared in India’s Business Standard newspaper on 22 July 2009 under the same title. It reviews a recent book, India and the Global Financial Crisis, by Dr Y. V. Reddy, who was governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) over 2003–08. This period saw exceptional challenges to macro management, and it was largely owing to the pre-emptive – but unpopular – policies of the RBI under Dr Reddy that India managed to avoid a far more debilitating hit from the global credit crisis. The charts on the left have been added for this note and were not included in the newspaper version.
We recommend our readers to Read the book by Dr. Y. V Reddy.
Lok Sabha elections between April 8 – May 15 + BJP goes High Tech
The Chief Election Commissioner of India has notified the date of the next Lok Sabha general elections to be held between April 8 and May 15 this year. However, the Election Commission has not specified the final dates on which the elections will be held.
Online campaigning for the Lok Sabha has began with L.K.Advani taking the lead by booking almost all the Ad slots on World’s Most Popular Advertising Platform – Google AdSense directing to his campaign website LKAdvani.in
The BJP has also vowed to connect all its offices across India on a netowrk enabling easy and efficient campaigning. BJP is also said to be deploying Unificed Communications as well as on the fly messaging system by means of SMS to keep their workers updated on the status. If they get to form the government then days are not far when our villages benefit the most by e-Governance initiatives, something realized in part in the state of Andhra Pradesh under a visionary leader, N. Chandrababu Naidu.
HRD Ministry tightens norms for setting up offshore campuses
The HRD Ministry issued a new set of 15 guidelines for private Indian educational institutions planning to set up offshore campus. These guidelines have been notified and would be made applicable for all future proposals for setting up offshore campuses.
As per a few provisions of the new guidelines, the institutions cannot take faculties from their Indian campuses and should not diversify profit from the domestic campus to the foreign campus or cross subsidies them. Each institution would also have to give an undertaking agreeing to the guidelines before the permission to go ahead with the proposal is granted. Also, institutes wishing to introduce a new course in the offshore campus need to get permission from the Indian government.
The ministry also issued certain rules for students seeking admission in an offshore campus, considering the problems faced at home by Indian students who went to Russian medical colleges. Going forward, students seeking admission in an offshore campus will have to obtain an eligibility certificate from the concerned regulatory body. Besides, a distinction will have to be made in the degree awarded by the offshore campus from the Indian one.
Also the medical students passing out from foreign campuses will not be made eligible for professional practice in India unless they satisfy the conditions of eligibility, including passing such examinations prescribed under the provisions of the MCI Act, 1956, and MCI Screening Test Regulations, 2002.
The ministry has also requested the institutes advertising for admission to an offshore campus would have to make it clear to the aspirants that mere completion of the MBBS program at the foreign campus will not mean that the person can practice as a doctor in India. A similar clarification will also be needed in case of engineering, management or other courses.
The 15 guidelines also makes it clear that the Indian government or any other public authority will not have any financial liability in respect of the offshore campus.