Now show your Pan card for more things

The govt is getting ready to welcome 2016 on its own style and from today common man has to see many things new. Now, common man has to use his Pan card in various places.

Let’s look at things which might change from today:

PAN card compulsion in-

• Cash payment of hotel or foreign travel bills exceeding Rs 50,000
• Acquiring shares of listed companies for Rs 50,000 and above
• All transactions, including purchase of jewellery, above Rs 2 lakh
• Purchase of immovable property of over Rs 10 lakh
• Opening all bank accounts except under Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana
• Term deposits exceeding Rs 50,000 at one go or Rs 5 lakh in a year with banks, POs & NBFCs

Parliament canteen gets costlier

Item             New rate      Old rate

Veg thali          Rs 30        Rs 18

Non-veg thali    Rs 60        Rs 33

3-course meal   Rs 90        Rs 61

Chicken curry    Rs 40       Rs 29

The number of items prepared in the canteen reduced to 25 per day from 130.

No interviews for Class III, IV jobs

The decision to abolish interviews for Class III and IV government jobs will come into effect from January 1, with PM Narendra Modi on Thursday describing it as a New Year Gift which will free the youth from corruption.