Government to Impose 0.5% Swachh Bharat Cess on Services from November 15

10-11-2015

Government to Impose 0.5% Swachh Bharat Cess on Services – “Swachh Bharat cess is not another tax but a step towards involving each and every citizen in making contribution to Swachh Bharat. The proceeds from this cess will be exclusively used for Swachh Bharat initiatives,” the statement added.Soon after the Diwali festivities, you will have to shell out a bit more for all the services so that the country can become cleaner.All services, including air travel, telephony, eating out and banking will become expensive from November 15 as the government today decided to impose a 0.5 per cent cess on all taxable services to fund the Swachh Bharat programme.The additional cess would be over

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88-Yr-Old Former Joint Secretary Jailed For A Year In DA Case
November 29, 2015

An 88-year-old former joint secretary in the Ministry of Commerce has been sentenced to one year in jail by a Delhi court in an over 30-year-old case for amassing disproportionate assets of over Rs 23 lakh. The court awarded the jail term to Krishan Bahadur, resident of East of Kailash here, saying that if people in such high posts on whom

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A K Jain Frontrunner For Post Of CBDT Chairman
November 29, 2015

New Delhi,  Senior IRS officer A K Jain is tipped to be the new CBDT Chairman.Anita Kapur, the incumbent Chairperson of Central Board of Direct Taxes which is the apex policy-making body of the Income Tax department, retires tomorrow.Official sources said the order for appointment of Jain, a 1978-batch Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer of

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Income Tax Employees’ Unions To Observe Black Day Today Against Pay Commission
November 27, 2015

Taxmen across the country will be observing a "black day" on Friday to protest against some of the "retrograde recommendations" of the seventh pay commission, the Income Tax Employees Federation, Mumbai, said here.The federation also claimed that other Central government employees will also join them and will be wearing black badges and holding

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Doctors in Delhi reject 7th Pay Commission recommendations
November 27, 2015

Doctors will be less motivated to join and continue in government services if 7th Pay Commission is implemented, suggests consensus among doctors in Delhi.According to Dr Pankaj Solanki, President, Federation of Resident Doctors' Association (FORDA), when 7th Pay Commission led by Justice A.K Mathur was constituted last year, doctors were quite

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Uniform Fitment Factor recommended by 7th Pay Commission
November 27, 2015

The existing PB-1, this index is 2.57, increasing to 2.62 for personnel in PB-2 and further to 2.67 from PB-3. The rationalised entry pay so arrived has been used in devising the new pay matrix.The 7th Pay Commission recommended uniform fitment factor for all group of Central Government employees. The commission says that the fitment recommended

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CGHS Delhi & NCR: Removal from the list of empanelled Health Care Organization
November 26, 2015

Vide CGHS Order dated: 24.11.2015(i) Adiva Super- Speciality Care, New Delhi(ii) Shroff Eye Centre, Sec-27, Gurgaon(iii) Professional Dentistry Multispecialty Dental Care Centre, New Delhi(iv) Dabas Dental Clinic & Orthodontic Centre, Dwarka, New Delhi(v) 32 Pearls Multi- Specialty Dental Clinic, Vijay Nagar, New Delhi.(vi) Srivastava MRI

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