As it is well known that the income tax department has allowed Aadhaar card holders to use the biometric id number in lieu of the Permanent Account Number (PAN). But as per new provision of Income Tax, fine of Rs. 10,000 may be levied in case of wrong Aadhar Number. As per the latest amendments in the Finance Bill 2019, not only allowed people to use Aadhaar in lieu of PAN but also introduced a penalty for giving a false Aadhaar number. However, the new penalty rules are applicable only in cases where you are using Aadhaar in lieu of PAN and where quoting PAN is mandatory according to the income tax department rules. It is well known that although Aadhaar is issued by the Unique Identity Authority of India, yet the fine is not imposed by UIDAI but by the income tax department. Under Section 272B of the Income Tax Act, 1961, the department can impose a penalty in case of default in complying with provisions relating to PAN, i.e., failure to obtain, quote, or authenticate PAN.
Justice
Mukul Mudgal, who headed the committee constituted to draft the Sports
Development Bill 2013, said today that BCCI will have to come under the ambit
of Right to Information Act if it wants to use 'India' as its national team's
name. He also said that that all the sports bodies, including the BCCI, will
have to come under the RTI once the Bill is passed by the Parliament. At a
media interactin to discuss the contents of the draft Bill, Mr. Mudgal said
"RTI will apply to all sports bodies and even cricket will
come under it.
Apart from a few exemptions like one cannot raise questions
regarding why a particular player/coach is selected over another, or the
contents of a player's contract, medical health and fitness etc, the public is authorized
to raise questions”
The
working group also includes eminent sportspersons like Olympic gold
medal-winning shooter Abhinav Bindra and former India hockey skipper Viren
Rasquinha, sports administrators and legal experts.
Sport
Expert Boria Mazumdar said during the interaction, “If
the BCCI refused to come under the ambit of the RTI then they cannot send the
national team under the tag 'India',"
There
are some important provisions included in the draft Bill like setting up of an
Appellate Sports Tribunal and a Sports Election Commission, barring of
charge-sheeted persons under the Criminal Procedure Code (section 228) from
contesting elections. The draft bill also provides for the constitution of an
Athletes Commission and NOC/NSFs functioning as a public authority under the
RTI and submission of report to the Parliament; setting up of an Ethics
Commission which will enforce a Code of Ethics in accordance with the
International Olympic Committee's code and principles, enshrined in the
Constitution of India.
Mudgal
and Boria insisted that with an intention of rooting out corruption from
sports, a clause has been included in the draft Bill wherein anybody who has
been charge-sheeted will not be able contest in the elections of a NSF.
According
to the draft Bill, the representation of either gender should not be less than
10 per cent of the membership in the General Body.
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