Notification relating to amendments of Schedule VII of Companies Act, 2013 - 1/18A/2013-CL-V - Companies Law

[TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, EXTRAORDINARY, PART II, SECTION 3, SUB-SECTION (i)] Government of India Ministry of Corporate Affairs Notification New Delhi, dated, the 27 Feb 2014 G.S.R. 130 (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 467 of the Companies Act, 2013 (18 of 2013) , the Central Government hereby makes the following amendments to Schedule VII of the said Act , namely:- (1) In Schedule VII, for items (i) to (x) and the entries relating thereto, the following items and entries shall be substituted, namely:- (i) eradicating hunger, poverty and malnutrition, 1 [ promoting health care including preventive health care ] and sanitation and making available safe drinking water; (ii) promoting education, including special education and employment enhancing vocation skills especially among children, women, elderly, and the differently abled and livelihood enhancement projects; (iii) promoting gender equality, empowering women, setting up homes and hostels for women and orphans; setting up old age homes, day care centres and such other facilities for senior citizens and measures for reducing inequalities faced by socially and economically backward groups; (iv) ensuring environmental sustainability, ecological balance, protection of flora and fauna, animal welfare, agroforestry, conservation of natural resources and maintaining quality of soil, air and water; (v) protection of national heritage, art and culture including restoration of buildings and sites of historical importance and works of art; setting up public libraries; promotion and development of traditional arts and handicrafts; (vi) measures for the benefit of armed forces veterans, war widows and their dependents; (vii) training to promote rural sports, nationally recognised sports, paralympic sports and Olympic sports; (viii) contribution to the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund or any other-fund set up by the Central Government for socio-economic development and relief and welfare of the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, other backward classes, minorities and women; (ix) contributions or funds provided to technology incubators located within academic institutions which are approved by the Central Government; (x) rural development projects. 2. This notification shall come into force with effect from I April, 2014. File Number 1/18A/2013-CL-V (Renuka Kumar) Joint Secretary to the Government of India ************ NOTES:- 1. Corrected vide Corrigenda No. G.S.R.261 (E) dated 31-03-2019 w.e.f. 01-04-2014 before it was read as promoting preventive health care