Just some background infromation. The N C D E P D had written to both the Finance Minister and the Railway Minister much prior to the Budgets and then several of us from this list had also written. None of what we asked for came through in any of the Budgets so we had planned a candle light vigil on 24th July outside the finance Minister's house. The finance Minister's team finally woke up realising that we were serious about our wants. After negotiations a small delegation led by Javed Abidi met the Finance Minister on the 24th July. the next day we met the Prime Minister and the amendment to 80U was announced in Parliament on 27th July.
The amendment to 80U was because of the pressure of writing letters, calling a candle light vigil then sticking to our guns-all in all the right kind of lobbying at the right places. If you have to thank anyone then the thanks go to Javed Abidi for the 80u amendment. Kanchan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vikas Kapoor" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 23:29 Subject: Re: [AI] regarding 80 u Yes Bharat, The rebate mentioned in your previous mail was not there originally but after the finance minister received a representation from some organisations, he introduced it at a later stage when the finance bill was passed! Vikas Kapoor, MSN Id:[email protected], Yahoo&Skype Id: dl_vikas, Mobile: (+91) 9891098137. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bharat" <[email protected]> To: "Accessindia" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 10:41 PM Subject: [AI] regarding 80 u hi all, despite having read mails confirming the fact that no changes were made in the exemptions provided under 80 u, i have time & again, heard from various people that the said clause has been modified & the upper limit has been increased to 100000. please clarify. To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
