- 8 per cent excise
duty imposed on packaged software sold over the counter. The customised
software and software packages downloaded from the Internet, however,
will be exempt from this levy.
- Full exemption
from Excise Duty on the prices of DVD drives, flash drives and combo
drives.
- Re-imposition of
excise duty at 12 per cent on computers. Duty will be the eligible for
full input tax credit.
- 16 percent excise
duty of 16 per cent imposed on set top boxes.
- Reduction of
customs duty from 15 per cent to nil.
- The ministers
bring a bill in the Parliament to amend the Indian Telegraph Act to
extend financial support for cellular telephony in the rural areas.
- The telephone
density touched 11.75 per hundred people at the end of January, as
against a meagre 5 per hundred just a few years back.
- A national
e-governance plan to be launched to give a boost to the computer
hardware industry. · 25 projects in mission mode to be launched in
2006-07.
- A number of
services to be brought online, in a web-based mode, including
applications for house sites, ration cards, filing of police complaint
and copies of land records.
- A new policy to
be introduced shortly to make India a preferred destination for the
manufacture of semi-conductors and other high-tech IT products,
including manufacturing of semi-conductors.
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