Notification No. 8

Section 2(48) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 – Zero Coupon Bond – Specified bond

What this is

Notification No. 8 was published on 3 February 2010. Its subject is Section 2(48) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 – Zero Coupon Bond – Specified bond.

This notifies a named person, body, fund or instrument for the purpose of a provision. Nothing in it changes the provision itself.

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.2	s.2, s.346, s.355

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.

Section 2(48) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 – Zero Coupon Bond – Specified bond
Notification No. 08/2010/F. No.164/03/2008-ITA.I, dated 3-2-2010

In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (48) of section 2 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Government hereby specifies the following particulars of zero coupon bond for the purposes of the said clause, namely :—

(a)

Name of the bond

Bhavishya Nirman Bond ( a ten year zero coupon bond) of National Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD);

(b)

period of life of the bond

ten years;

(c)

the time schedule of the Issue of bond

to be issued on or before the 31st day of March, 2011;

(d)

the amount to be paid on maturity or redemption of the bond

twenty thousand rupees for each bond;

(e)

the discount

to be decided by NABARD at the time of issue of the bond; and

(f)

the number of bonds to be issued

Ninety-five lakhs and twenty thousand

2. This notification is subject to the fulfillment of conditions referred to in clause (ii), clause (iii) and clause (v) of sub-rule (3) and sub-rule (6) of rule 8B of the Income-tax Rules, 1962.

What it names

Rules it names. Rule 8B 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.

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. 89/2026-CBDT [F. No. 164/1/2026-ITA-1] / SO 3936(E) — Ministry of Finance 17 July 2026
Notification No. 75/2026 [F. No. 275/18/2026-IT(B)] / SO 3610(E) : TDS Exemption on Ship Lease Payments to IFSC Units — 4 the Gazette of INDIA : Extraordinary [Part Ii—sec. 3(ii)] 3 July 2026
Notification No. 74/2026 [F. No. 275/16/2026-IT(B)] / SO 3609(E) : TDS Exemption on Aircraft Lease Payments to IFSC Units — 4 the Gazette of INDIA : Extraordinary [Part Ii—sec. 3(ii)] 3 July 2026
Notification No. 65/2025 [F. No. 300196/4/2019-ITA-I] / S.O. 2739(E) — Ministry of Finance 19 June 2025
Notification No. 56 /2025 [F.No.300164/4/2024-ITA-1] / SO 2576(E) — 2 the Gazette of INDIA : Extraordinary [Part Ii—sec. 3(ii)] 12 June 2025
Notification No. 52/2025 [F. No. 300164/5/2024-ITA-1] / SO 2447(E) — Ministry of Finance 30 May 2025

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.