Notification relating to amendments Schedule Vll

MINISTRY OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 27th February, 2014

G.S.R, 130(E).-In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (l) of section 467 of the Companies
Act, 20l3 (18 of 2013), the Central Govemment hereby makes the following amendments to Schedule Vll of the said
Act, namely :-
(l) In Schedule VIl, for items (i) to (x) and the ent es relating thereto, the following items and entries shall be
substituted, namely :-
‘ID eradicating hunger, poverty and malnutrition, promoting preventive health care and sanitation and
making available safe drinking water:
promoting education, including special education and employment enhancing vocation skills
especially among children, women, elderly, and the differently abled and livelihood enhancement
projects;
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;
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;
protection of national heritage, alt and culture including restoration of buildings and sites of
historical importance and works of art; setting up public libraries; promotion and development of
traditional ans 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 P me Minister’s National Relief Fund or any other fund s€t up by the Central
Government for socio-economic development and relief and welfare of the Schedulcd Caste$, the
Scheduled Tribes, other backward classes, minorities and women;
(ix) contributions or funds provided to tcchnology incubators located within academic institutions
which are approved by the Central Govemmentj
(x) rural development projects.”
2. This notification shall come into force with effect from lst ADril. 2014.

lF. No. l/l8A/2013-CL-V]
RENUKA KUMAR. Jt. Secv