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Notification 6 January 2015

Notification No.47/2015 [F.No.V.27015/3/2014-SO(NAT.COM)] / SO 98(E)

Section 35AC, read with Explanation (b) thereto, of the Income-tax Act, 1961 - Eligible Projects or Schemes, Expenditure on - Notified Eligible Projects or Schemes - Bhil Seva Mandal Dahod, Gujarat

What this is

Notification No.47/2015 [F.No.V.27015/3/2014-SO(NAT.COM)] / SO 98(E) was published on 6 January 2015. Its subject is Section 35AC, read with Explanation (b) thereto, of the Income-tax Act, 1961 - Eligible Projects or Schemes, Expenditure on - Notified Eligible Projects or Schemes - Bhil Seva Mandal Dahod, Gujarat.

What it does

The Central Government, under sub-section (1) read with clause (b) of the Explanation to section 35AC of the Income-tax Act, 1961, notifies the project "Resource management training and agricultural support, organic farming, development of medicinal and fodder plants for tribal farmers, provision for drinking water, irrigations wells and check dams for tribal villages, protection walls for tribal hostels, educational aids for tribal children" carried out by Bhil Seva Mandal Dahod, Thakkar Bapa Road, Dahod 389151, Gujarat, for a further period of three years commencing with financial year 2013-14, that is 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16. The approved cost is unchanged at Rs. 9.11 crore including a corpus fund of Rs. 1 crore. The project was notified at serial number 10 of S.O. 1649(E) dated 12 July 2010 at that estimated cost for three years ending with financial year 2012-13.

Why it was issued

The project or scheme is likely to extend beyond three years, and the National Committee for Promotion of Social and Economic Welfare, satisfied that it is being executed properly, made a further recommendation under sub-rule (5) of rule 11M of the Income-tax Rules, 1962 for specifying it for a further three years commencing with financial year 2013-14.

Who it reaches

Bhil Seva Mandal Dahod, Gujarat
donors funding the tribal agriculture, water and education work
assessing officers examining claims of deduction under section 35AC

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.35AC	no counterpart recorded

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 35AC, READ WITH EXPLANATION (b) THERETO, OF THE INCOME-TAX ACT, 1961 - ELIGIBLE PROJECTS OR SCHEMES, EXPENDITURE ON - NOTIFIED ELIGIBLE PROJECTS OR SCHEMES - BHIL SEVA MANDAL DAHOD, GUJARAT
NOTIFICATION NO.47/2015 [F.NO.V.27015/3/2014-SO(NAT.COM)]/SO 98(E), DATED 6-1-2015
Whereas by notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) number S.O.1649(E) dated 12.7.2010 issued under clause (b) of the Explanation to section 35AC of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Government had notified at serial number '10' 'Resource management training and agricultural support, organic farming, development of medicinal and fodder plants for tribal farmers, provision for drinking water, irrigations wells and check dams for tribal villages, protection walls for tribal hostels, educational aids for tribal children' by "Bhil Seva Mandal Dahod, Thakkar Bapa Road, Dahod 389151, Gujarat", as an eligible project or scheme, at the estimated cost of Rs.9.11 crore including a corpus fund of Rs.1 crore for a period of three years ending with financial year 2012-13.
And whereas the said project or scheme is likely to extend beyond 3 years;
And whereas the National Committee for Promotion of Social and Economic Welfare, being satisfied that the said project or scheme is being executed- properly, made a further recommendation under sub-rule (5) of rule 11M of the Income-tax Rules, 1962 for specifying the said project or scheme for a further period of three years commencing with financial year 2013-14, i.e., 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16. Since the financial year 2013-14 has already lapsed, no exemption under Section 35AC shall be available for the said financial year 2013-14.
Now, therefore, the Central Government, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) read with clause (b) of the Explanation to section 35AC of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), hereby notifies the scheme or project "Resource management training and agricultural support, organic farming, development of medicinal and fodder plants for tribal farmers, provision for drinking water, irrigations wells and check dams for tribal villages, protection walls for tribal hostels, educational aids for tribal children", which is being carried out "Bhil Seva Mandal Dahod, Thakkar Bapa Road, Dahod 389151, Gujarat" without any change in the approved cost of Rs.9.11 crore including a corpus fund of Rs. 1 crore, for a further period of three years commencing with financial year 2013-14, i.e., 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16.
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What it changes

The rule numbers are the 1962 Rules’ own, as the notification names them. The right-hand column is the department’s own mapping into the Income-tax Rules, 2026, which renumbered nearly everything.

Rule of the 1962 Rules	Now, in the 2026 Rules
Rule 11M	no counterpart recorded

From when

financial year 2013-14, retrospectively.

What to watch

The further period runs from financial year 2013-14 to 2015-16, so the notification of 6 January 2015 is retrospective.
No exemption under section 35AC is available for financial year 2013-14, that year having already lapsed, so only 2014-15 and 2015-16 are usable in practice.
The approved cost stays at Rs. 9.11 crore including a corpus fund of Rs. 1 crore; the ceiling is not enhanced.

Where you meet it

In a donor's return claiming deduction under section 35AC and in the certificate issued by the Mandal for the year of payment.

What it names

Rules it names. Rule 11M 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. 3/2022 — Specifying forms returns statements reports orders by whatever name called prescribed in appendix ii to be furnished ele 16 July 2022
Notification No. 2/2019 [F. No. V. 27013/3/2018-SO(NAT.COM)]/SO 3122(E) — Ministry of Finance 28 August 2019
Notification No. 1/2019 [F. No. V. 27013/3/2018-SO(NAT.COM)] / SO 1706(E) — Ministry of Finance 8 May 2019
Notification No. S.O. 1706 [No. 1/2019 (F.No.V.27013/3/2018-SO(nat.com)] — Section 35AC of the Income-tax Act, 1961, read with rule 11G of the Income-tax Rules, 1962 - Eligible Projects or Scheme 8 May 2019
Notification No. 2/2018 [F.No.V.27013/3/2018-SO(NAT.COM)] SO 5160(E) — Ministry of Finance 5 October 2018
Notification No. 1/2018 [F.No.V.27013/3/2018-SO(NAT.COM)] / SO 1658(E) — MINISTRY OF FINANCE (Department of Revenue) NOTIFICATION New Delhi, the 17th April, 2018 S.O 17 April 2018

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