CE - Uttarakhand Exemption - Minor amendments - 11 year old mistake corrected as per Court Orders
GOVERNMENT has amended Notification No. 50/2003-Central Excise, dated the 10th June, 2003 dealing with exemption to goods manufactured in Uttarakhand.
The name of a village - "Sakharkheda" is amended as "Sarverkheda" and its Khasra numbers are also amended.
Why this amendment now?
Well, that is an interesting story.
It seems there is no village by name "Sakharkheda"in Uttarakhand and what they all through meant was "Sarverkheda". You know if the Government makes a mistake, the citizen has to suffer. Perhaps somebody in "Sarverkheda" was denied the exemption, because he was not in the non-existent "Sakharkheda".
The Director of Industries, Uttarakhand had in his letter dated 12.10.2012 requested the Central Government to amend the notification suitably. Obviously nobody took him seriously.
In 2013, Prakash Industries Ltd filed a writ in the Uttarakhand High Court seeking writ of Mandamus commanding the respondent no. 1 to make correction in the name of village and khasras in Notification No. 50/2003-CE dated 10.6.2003 at Sr. No. 28, which is wrongly mentioned as SAKHARKHEDA in place of SARVERKHEDA and Khasra Nos. 285/A and 288A instead of 285/1 and 288/1.
Even when the writ was filed, the Government could have amended the notification, but they waited. Finally on March 11 2014, the High Court directed the Central Government to issue necessary rectification notification within about six weeks of the receipt of the Court order.
And so finally, as per the directions of the High Court, the Government of India kindly amended the notification to correct the name of the village which it had spelt wrongly 11 years ago.
If you need a High Court to get a small spelling corrected in a notification, what can poor Modi do for more governance and less Government?
Interestingly, there exists a village by the name "SAKHARKHEDA" but this village is situated in Narkhed tehsil and located in Nagpur district of Maharashtra and not in the State of Uttarakhand.
Notification No. Dated: June 30, 2014