Approval of an institution under section 10 of the Income-tax Act, 1961
Notification: 353 Date of Issue : 27/11/2002 was published on 27 November 2002. Its subject is Approval of an institution under section 10 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.
Notification No : 353
Date of Issue : 27/11/2002
Section(s) Referred : s. 10(23G)
Notification No. 353 of 2002, dt 27th Nov., 2002
It is notified for general information that enterprise/industrial undertaking, listed at para (3) below has been approved by the Central Government for the purpose of section 10(23G) of the Income-tax Act, 1961, read with rule 2E of the Income-tax Rules, 1962, for the assessment years 2002-2003, 2003-2004 and 2004-2005.
2. The approval is subject to the condition that:
(i) the enterprise/industrial undertaking will conform to and comply with the provisions of section 10(23G) of the Income-tax Act, 1961, read with rule 2E of the Income-tax Rules, 1962;
(ii) the Central Government shall withdraw this approval if the enterprise/industrial undertaking :
(a) ceases to carry on infrastructure facility; or
(b) fails to maintain books of account and get such accounts audited by an accountant as required by sub-rule (7) of rule 2E of the Income-tax Rules, 1962; or
(c) fails to furnish the audit report as required by sub-rule (7) of rule 2E of the Income-tax Rules, 1962.
3. The enterprise/industrial undertaking approved is--M/s Sterling Cellular Limited, Chennai for their project of providing cellular mobile telephone services in Delhi region as per licence agreement No. 842-22/93-TM dated 30th November, 1994.
[F.No.205/15/1998-ITA-II]
Rules it names. Rule 2E of the Income-tax Rules, 1962. The 1962 Rules were replaced by the Income-tax Rules, 2026, which renumbered nearly everything: a rule number quoted here almost never means the same rule today.
Source: the Income Tax Department’s own published text — its page for this instrument.