Notification No. 2948 — Approval of an institution under section 35 of the Income-tax Act, 1961

What this is

Notification No. 2948 was published on 8 July 1977. Its subject is Approval of an institution under section 35 of the Income-tax Act, 1961.

This is an approval of a named institution. It affects that institution and the people who deal with it; the years it covers are stated in it and are the whole of its reach.

The provisions it speaks to

Left, the provision of the Income-tax Act, 1961 as the instrument itself names it. Right, the section of the Income-tax Act, 2025 that the department’s own concordance maps it to — which is where the same ground is now covered.

Under the 1961 Act	Now
s.35	s.45, s.66

The instrument, as the Board published it

The words below are the department’s own, reproduced from its published text. Where the department’s copy carried a publisher’s notes after the instrument, those are not reproduced.

It is hereby notified for general information that the institution mentioned below has been approved by the Indian Council of Social Science Research, the prescribed authority for the purposes of clause (ii) of sub-section (1) of section 35 of the Income-tax Act, 1961, subject to the following conditions :--

1. The funds collected by the Foundation under this exemption will be capitalised and used for instituting fellowships at the Readers level in the field of social science in selected Indian Universities.

2. The fellowships would be operated by the Foundation on the advice of a Committee of eminent social scientists set up in consultation with the I.C.S.S.R. and with the representative of the I.C.S.S.R., thereon.

3. The foundation submits an annual report on the operation of this scheme to the I.C.S.S.R. and

4. The foundation may, with the approval of the I.C.S.S.R., transfer the funds for these fellowships if it so desired to the universities concerned, for management and operation.

5. That the foundation shall maintain separate accounts of the funds collected by them under the exemption.

Institution

D.P. Dhar Memorial Foundation, New Delhi.

This notification takes effect for a period of three years from 1st April, 1977.

[No. 1874 (F. No. 203/188/76-ITA. II)

On the same provision

Other instruments in this library that name the same provision of the 1961 Act. They are not necessarily still operative, and a later one may have replaced an earlier one without saying so.

Notification No. 6/2026 — Order under clause iia of sub section 1 of section 35 of the income tax act 1961 read with rule 5F of the income tax rul 12 May 2026
Notification No. 43/2026 [F. No. 203/11/2025/ITA-II] / SO 1659(E) — इिु बाला, उप सजचि 30 March 2026
Notification No. 42/2026 [F. No 203/09/2025/ITA-II] / SO 1658(E) — इिुबाला, उप सजचि 30 March 2026
Notification No. 40/2026 [F. No. 203/07/2025/ITA-II] / SO 1657(E) — Ministry of Finance 30 March 2026
Notification No. 5/2026 — Order under clause iia of sub section 1 of section 35 of the income tax act 1961 read with rule 5F of the income tax rul 23 March 2026
Notification No. 24/2026 [F. No. 203/13/2025/ITA-II] / SO 1491(E) — Ministry of Finance 20 March 2026

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What a notification is. A notification is made under a power the Act itself gives, and within that power it is law — unlike a circular, which only binds the department. Its reach is the reach of the enabling provision and no wider, and the date it carries decides from when it works.

Source: the Income Tax Department’s own published text — its page for this instrument.