RBI asked banks to include ‘Third Gender’ field in Account Opening Form

RBI released a notification on 23rd Apr-15 directing bank to include ‘third gender’ field in all forms, applications, etc. This notification was released when RBI noticed the difficulty transgender are facing in the account opening form. Full text of notification is given below and available here for download. RBI/2014-15/572DBR.No.Leg.BC.91/09.07.005/2014-15 April 23, 2015 All Scheduled Commercial…

ICSI released Secretarial Standards 1 & 2

Here comes the Secretarial Standards. After the standards notified by Companies Act for financial accounting and Income Tax Department for Tax Accounting, ICSI has notified following standards: SECRETARIAL STANDARD ON MEETINGS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS (SS-1) SECRETARIAL STANDARD ON GENERAL MEETINGS (SS-2) These standards have been notified as per the Power given to ICSI…