The Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Shri Arun Jaitley lighting the lamp at the celebrations of the 42nd Civil Accounts Day-2018, in New Delhi on March 01, 2018. The Secretary, Department of Expenditure, Shri Ajay Narayan Jha is also seen.
The Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Shri Arun Jaitley at the celebrations of the 42nd Civil Accounts Day-2018, in New Delhi on March 01, 2018. The Secretary, Department of Expenditure, Shri Ajay Narayan Jha and other dignitaries are also seen.
The Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Shri Arun Jaitley launching the Centralized GP Fund Module of PFMS for all the Central Government Employees, at the celebrations of the 42nd Civil Accounts Day-2018, in New Delhi on March 01, 2018. The Secretary, Department of Expenditure, Shri Ajay Narayan Jha and other dignitaries are also seen.
The Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Shri Arun Jaitley launching the ePPO Module of PFMS for complete end-to-end electronic processing of Pension cases, at the celebrations of the 42nd Civil Accounts Day-2018, in New Delhi on March 01, 2018. The Secretary, Department of Expenditure, Shri Ajay Narayan Jha is also seen.
The Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Shri Arun Jaitley addressing at the celebrations of the 42nd Civil Accounts Day-2018, in New Delhi on March 01, 2018.
The Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Shri Arun Jaitley addressing at the celebrations of the 42nd Civil Accounts Day-2018, in New Delhi on March 01, 2018.
Ministry of Finance
01-March, 2018 13:04 IST
CBDT achieves important milestone of 200 APAs
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) entered into seven more Advance Pricing Agreements (APAs) during the month of February, 2018. All the seven are Unilateral APAs. With the signing of these Agreements, CBDT has crossed an important milestone of having signed 200 APAs.
The total number of APAs entered into by the CBDT till date has gone up to 203. This includes 185 Unilateral APAs and 18 Bilateral APAs. In the current financial year, the CBDT has entered into 51 APAs so far (44 Unilateral APAs and 7 Bilateral APAs).
The seven APAs signed in February pertain to the Pharmaceuticals, Automobiles, Financial and Food & Beverages sectors of the economy. The international transactions covered in these agreements include Manufacturing, Provision of Software Development Services, Provision of IT enabled Services, Payment of Royalty, Provision of Contract R&D Services, Provision of Marketing Support Services, Distribution, AMP Expenses, Provision of Engineering Design Support Services, Provision of Sourcing Support Services, Payment of Interest, etc.
The APA provisions were introduced in the Income-tax Act, 1961 in 2012 and the “Rollback” provisions were introduced in 2014. The APA scheme endeavours to provide certainty to taxpayers in the domain of transfer pricing by specifying the methods of pricing and setting the prices of international transactions in advance.
The progress of the APA scheme strengthens the Government’s resolve of fostering a non-adversarial tax regime. The Indian APA programme has been appreciated nationally and internationally for being able to address complex transfer pricing issues in a fair and transparent manner. It has contributed significantly towards improving the ease of doing business in India.
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
01-March, 2018 13:24 IST
ACC appointments
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the following appointments:
(i) Shri Tarun Sridhar, IAS (HP 84), presently in the Cadre as Secretary, Deptt. of Animal Husbandry, Dairying & Fisheries;
(ii) Shri Brij Raj Shanna, IAS (JK 84), Special Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs as Special Secretary, Department of Border Management;
(iii) Shri Jaideep Govind, IAS (MP 84), Special Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs as Special Secretary & Financial Adviser, Ministry of Rural Development;
(iv) Shri R. Subrahmanyam, IAS (AP 85), Special Secretary, Department of Higher Education as Secretary, Department of Higher Education on superannuation of the present incumbent Shri K.K.Sharma, IAS (UT 83) on 28.02.2018;
(v) Shri Inder Jit Singh, IAS (KL 85), Additional Secretary, Coordination, Cabinet Secretariat as Coordination, Cabinet Secretariat;
(vi) Shri P.Raghavendra Rao, IAS (HY 85), presently in the Cadre, as Department of Chemicals & Petrochemicals;
(vii) Shri Surendra Nath Tripathi, IAS (OR 85), Special Secretary & Financial Adviser, Ministry of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers Welfare as Secretary, Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs;
(viii) Shri Anil Gopishankar Mukim, IAS (GJ 85), presently in the Cadre, as Secretary Ministry of Mines on superannuation of the present incumbent Shri Arun Kumar on 31.03.2018;
(ix) Shri C. Chandramouli, IAS (TN 85), presently in the Cadre, as Secretary, Depanment of Personnel & Training on superannuation of the current incumbent Shri Ajay Mittal, IAS (HP 82) on 28.022018;
(x) Shri S.C.Pandey, IA&AS 83, Additional Secretary & Financial Adviser, Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion as Special Secretary & Financial Adviser, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, by temporarily upgrading the post;
(xi) Smt Shalini Prasad, IAS (UP 85), Additional Secretary, Ministry of Power as Additional Secretary, Ministry of Panchayati Raj, by temporarily upgrading a vacant post of Joint Secretary in the Ministry;
(xii) Shri Bhupendra Singh, IAS (UP 85), Chairperson, National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority as Chairperson, National Authority for Chemical Weapons Convention, Cabinet Secretariat, in the rank and pay of Additional Secretary;
(xiii) Shri Sanjeev Gupta, IAS (HP 85), Chief Executive Officer, National e-Govemance Division as Additional Secretary, Inter-State Council Secretariat;
(xiv) Shri Sat Pal Chouhan, IES 83, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs as Additional Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs;
(xv) Smt Gargi Kaul, IA&AS 84, Joint Secretary & Financial Adviser, Ministry of Civil Aviation as Additional Secretary & Financial Adviser, Ministry of Civil Aviation by temporarily 0upgrading the post;
(xvi) Shri Anil Gulati, IRPS 84, Joint Secretary, Department of Legal Affairs and incharge Central Agency Section as Additional Secretary, Department of Legal Affairs and in-charge Central Agency Section, by temporarily upgrading the post;
(xvii) Smt Shefali Shah, IRS (IT) 85, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Culture as Additional Secretary, Ministry of Culture, by temporarily upgrading the post;
(xviii) Shri Sanjay Chadha, IRSME 85, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Commerce as Additional Secretary, Department of Commerce by temporarily upgrading the post;
(xix) Shri Subash Chandra, IAS (KN 86), presently in the Cadre as Additional Secretary, Department of Defence Production;
(xx) Shri Bipin Bihari Mallick, IAS (MH 86), Additional Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs as Additional Secretary & Financial Adviser, Ministry of Culture, by temporarily upgrading a vacant post of Joint Secretary, within the Ministry;
(xxi) Shri Shambhu Singh, IAS (MN 86), presently in the Cadre as Additional Secretary & Financial Adviser, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways;
(xxii) Shri Bimbadhar Pradhan, IAS (BH 87), Adviser, National Disaster Management Authority as Additional Secretary & Financial Adviser, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare;
(xxiii) Shri Debashish Panda, IAS (UP 87), presently in the Cadre, as Additional Secretary, Department of Financial Services;
(xxiv) Smt Leena Nandan, IAS (UP 87), Additional Secretary & Financial Adviser, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways as Additional Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways;
(xxv) Shri B.Anand, IAS (TN 87), Joint Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs as Additional Secretary & Financial Adviser, Department of Biotechnology and Ministry of Earth Sciences;
(xxvi) Shri Rajiv Ranjan Mishra, IAS (TG 87), Additional Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs as Director General, National Mission for Clean Ganga;
(xxvii) Shri Pankaj Kumar, IAS (NL 87), presently in the Cadre, as Additional Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology;
(xxviii) Shri Praveen Garg, IAS (MP 88), Joint Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs as Additional Secretary & Financial Adviser, Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change;
(xxix) Shri Bidyut Bihari Swain, IAS (GJ 88), presently in the Cadre, as Additional Secretary, Departnent of Commerce;
(xxx) Smt Sarita Mittal, CSS, Joint Secretary, Department of Health Research as Additional Secretary, Department of Health Research, by temporarily upgrading the post.
The ACC has also approved in-situ upgradation of the following officers as a measure personal to them:
(i) Shri Anup Wadhawan, IAS (UK 85), Additional Secretary, Department of Commerce as Special Secretary, Department of Commerce, by temporarily upgrading the post;
(ii) Shri M. M. Kutty, IAS (UT 85), Additional Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs as Special Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, by temporarily upgrading the post;
(iii) Shri Sumanta Chaudhari, IAS (WB 85), Managing Director. SFAC as Managing Director, Small Farmers' Agri-business Consortium (SFAC) in the rank and pay of Secretary, by temporarily upgrading the post;
(iv) Shri Chabilendra Roul, IAS (PB 85), Additional Secretary. Department of Agricultural Research and Education as Special Secretary, Department of Agricultural Research and Education, by temporarily upgrading the post;
(v) Shri Sailesh, IAS (AM 85), Registrar General of India as Registrar General of India in the rank and pay of Secretary;
(vi) Shri T.K. Manoj Kumar, IAS (KL 87), Joint Secretary, Warehousing Development & Regulatory Authority as Additional Secretary. Warehousing Development & Regulatory Authority, by temporarily upgrading the post;
(vii) Shri Arun Singhal, IAS (UP 87), Joint Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare as Additional Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare by temporarily upgrading the post;
(viii) Shri Dharmendra Singh Gangwar, IAS (BH 88), Joint Secretary, Ministry of Food Processing Industries as Additional Secretary, Ministry of Food Processing Industries, by temporarily upgrading the post.
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