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MINISTRY OF FINANCE

(Department of Revenue)

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 28th August, 2019

S.O. 3122(E).—Whereas in exercise of the powers conferred by section 35AC of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961) read with rule 11G of the Income Tax Rules, 1962, the Central Government constituted the National Committee for Promotion of Social and Economic Welfare vide notification of the Government of India, Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) number S.O. 5(E) dated the 2^nd January, 1992 published in the Gazette of India Extraordinary Part II Section 3, Sub-Section (ii) dated the 2^nd January,1992 as amended by notification numbers S.O. 926(E) dated the 22^nd December, 1994, notification number S.O. 892(E) dated the 23^rd December, 1997; notification number S.O.444(E) dated the 21^st May, 2001; notification number S.O. 1258(E) dated the 9^th November, 2004; notification number S.O. 227(E) dated 1^st February, 2008; notification number S.O. 218(E) dated the 1^st February, 2011; notification number S.O. 654(E) dated the 4^th March, 2014 and notification number S.O. 1021(E) dated the 31st March, 2017.

And whereas, in terms of sub-rule (1) of Rule 11G of the Income Tax Rules, 1962, by the aforesaid notification, fourteen persons were appointed by the Central Government as Chairman and members of the said Committee;

And whereas, the term of the Chairman and members of the aforesaid Committee ended on 30^th March, 2018. And whereas, the term of the Chairman and members of the aforesaid Committee was extended for a further period of six months i.e. up to 30^th September, 2018 vide notification number S.O. 1658(E) dated the 17^th April, 2018. And whereas, the term of the Chairman and members of the aforesaid Committee was extended for a further period of six months i.e. up to 31^st March, 2019 vide notification number S.O. 5160(E) dated the 5^th October, 2018. . And whereas, the term of the Chairman and members of the aforesaid Committee was further extended for a further period of six months i.e. up to 30^th September, 2019 vide notification number S.O. 1706(E) dated the 8^th May, 2019.

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 35AC of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961) read with sub-rule (1) and (3) of rule 11G of the Income Tax Rules, 1962, the Central Government hereby extend the tenure of following persons as Chairman and members of the National Committee for Promotion of Social and Economic Welfare for a further period of six months w.e.f. 1^st October, 2019 i.e. till 31^st March, 2020.

1	Justice R.C. Lahoti		Former Chief Justice of India		Chairman
2	Shri	Amardeep	Singh	Vice   Chairman,   Nehru   Yuva   Kendra	Member
	Cheema			Sangathan	and Social activist
3	Dr. Amiya Kumar Sharma	Executive Director, Rahstriya Gramin Vikas	Member
				Nidhi, Guwahati
4	Shri Baldev Chowdhary	Ex-Chairman,   UP   Congress   Committee	Member
				SC/ST Cell
5	Smt. Chetna Sinha		Micro	Finance	and	Women	Member
				Entrepreneurship,  Founder  &  Chairperson,
				Mann Deshi  Bank
6	Shri D.R. Mehta		Padam Bhushan and Retired Civil Servant,	Member
				Founder &Chief Patron, Bhagwan
				Mahaveer	Viklang	Sahayta	Samiti

(BMVSS), Jaipur.

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7	Shri Enrico Piperno	Former Tennis Player and coach	Member
8	Shri Habib A. Fakih	Specialist  in  local  self  government  and	Member
		Public Administration, Vice President, The
		Federation   of   Linguistic   &   Religious
		Minorities		Education	Institution,
		Maharashtra
9	Prof. Naladi Samuyelu	Emeritus Professor, Deptt. Of Sociology &	Member
		Social	Work,	Acharya	Nagarjuna
		University, Guntur
10	Dr. Naresh Gupta	Director,	Professor,	MaulanaAzad	Member
		Medical College and Associated hospitals,
		New Delhi
11	Shri Sanjiv Kumar Arora	Chartered Accountant			Member
12	Smt. Shameema Raina	Social worker				Member
13	Smt.  Shashikala Vamanan	Educationist				Member
14	Shri Vinayak Lohani	Social   Entrepreneur	and	founder   of	Member

Parivar

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RASMI RANJAN DAS,

Jt. Secy. (FT&TR-I) & Secy. (National Committee)