Amendment to Rule 21 of CE Rules - Half done!– Now fully done!
In our Budget articles, we had carried a story Amendment to Rule 21 of CE Rules - Half done !
wherein it was pointed out that
In the second and third provisos, in fact two words need to be substituted in each proviso, for upper and lower limits, but only one word of the revised upper limit has been substituted. So now there is overlap of powers between the Superintendent , Assistant / Deputy Commissioner and the Joint Commissioner. Therefore there is a need to substitute " one thousand" in second proviso to "ten thousand" and in the third proviso, "two thousand five hundred" needs to be replaced with "one lakh rupees".
We are happy to report that the Government has corrected the mistake. Though the Board had corrected the mistake by 15th of March, as usual the Ostrich phenomenon was in play and it took us all of 15 days to lay our hands on the correction. Why is the Board shy of publishing its notifications?
CORRIGENDUM to Notification No. dated the 15th March, 2007