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CENTRAL BOARD OF DIRECT TAXES The Central Board of Direct Taxes is a statutory authority functioning under the Central Board of Revenue Act, 1963 and it is dealing with matters relating to levy and collection of direct taxes. The emblem of CBDT has the national emblem in blue colour, supported by green laurel. At the bottom on a red banner its motto in Sanskrit 'कोश मुलो दण्डः' meaning 'Treasury or Revenue is the Backbone of Administration'.

CENTRAL BOARD OF INDIRECT TAXES AND CUSTOMS Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (erstwhile Central Board of Excise & Customs) is a part of the Department of Revenue under the Ministry of Finance, Government of India. It deals with the tasks of formulation of policy concerning levy and collection of Customs, Central Excise duties, Central Goods and Services Tax and IGST, prevention of smuggling and administration of matters relating to customs, central excise, central Goods and Services Tax, IGST and Narcotics to the extent under CBIC's purview. Its emblem is predominantly blue with yellow details, is circular in form and supported by a banner and crested by a star. In the middle the National Emblem is placed surrounded by a yellow circle and a blue border, which has its name in Devanagari and English. The banner has a its motto in Sanskrit, which says ‘देशसेवार्त करसंचय’ meaning ‘Serving Nation through Tax Collection’. The five pointed star is colou

DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM, JAMMU AND KASHMIR The Department of Tourism, Jammu and Kashmir is the main developmental, promotional and regulatory arm of the J&K Government with respect to promotion of tourism in the Union Territory(UT). Its emblem in the form of a pictorial of a house boat floating on a lake supported by a mountain in the background. These symbolise Himalayas and the houseboats on Dal Lake.

INDIA METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT In the year 1875, the Government of India established the India Meteorological Department (IMD), bringing all meteorological work in the country under a central authority. Mr. H. F. Blanford was appointed Meteorological Reporter to the Government of India. The first Director General of Observatories was Sir John Eliot who was appointed in May 1889 at Calcutta headquarters. The headquarters of IMD were later shifted to Shimla, then to Poona (now Pune) and finally to New Delhi. IMD has progressively expanded its infrastructure for meteorological observations, communications, forecasting and weather services and it has achieved a parallel scientific growth. IMD has always used contemporary technology. In the telegraph age, it made extensive use of weather telegrams for collecting observational data and sending warnings. Later IMD became the first organisation in India to have a message switching computer for supporting its global data exchange. One of the f

BHARAT SANCHAR NIGAM LIMITED Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) was incorporated on September 15, 2000. It took over the business of providing of telecom services and network management from the erstwhile Government of India’s Departments of Telecom Services (DTS) (DoT) and Telecom Operations (DTO), with effect from October 1, 2000 on going concern basis. It is one of the largest and leading public sector units providing comprehensive range of telecom services in India. Its logo has a grey coloured globe circumnavigated by red and blue arrows in opposite directions. Below this is the acronym BSNL in blue colour and at the bottom is its motto ‘Connecting India’ is written in black. https://portal.bsnl.in/myportal/ http://www.bsnl.co.in:9080/opencms/bsnl/BSNL/about_us/company/about_bsnl.html https://www.scribd.com/doc/298953769/Swamy-s-Symbols-of-India-Volume-1  

RURAL POSTAL LIFE INSURANCE Rural Postal Life Insurance (RPLI) came into being as a sequel to the recommendations of the  Official Committee for Reforms in the Insurance Sector (Malhotra Committee). The Committee had observed in 1993 that only 22percent of the insurable population in this country had been insured; life insurance funds accounted for only 10 percent of the gross household savings.  The Committee had observed that Rural Branch Postmasters who enjoy a position of trust  in the community  have the capacity to canvass life insurance business within their respective areas. The Government accepted the recommendations of Malhotra Committee  and allowed Postal Life Insurance to extend its coverage to the rural areas to transact life insurance business with effect from March 24, 1995, mainly because of the vast network of Post Offices in the rural areas and low cost of operations. The prime objective of the scheme is to provide insurance cover to the rural public in general and t

POSTAL LIFE INSURANCE Postal Life Insurance (PLI) was introduced on February 1, 1884 with the express approval of the Secretary of State (for India) to Her Majesty, the Queen Empress of India. It was essentially a scheme of State Insurance mooted by the then Director General of Post Offices, Mr. F.R. Hogg in 1881 as  a welfare scheme for the benefit of Postal employees and later extended to the employees of Telegraph department in 1888. In 1894, PLI extended insurance cover to female employees of P & T Department at a time when no other insurance company covered female lives. It is the oldest Life insurer in this country. In the beginning, the upper limit of life insurance was only INR4000 - which has now increased to INR10 lakhs for all schemes combined - Endowment Assurance and Whole Life Assurance. It now covers employees of Central and State governments, Central and State public sector undertakings, universities, government aided educational institutions, nationalized banks, lo

INSTANT MONEY ORDER The instant domestic money transfer service is a service offerred by India Post. Its  Instant Money Order - iMO, the instant online money transfer service that is instant, convenient, reliable and affordable. The iMO is an instant web based money transfer service through Post Offices (iMO Centre) in India between two resident individuals in Indian territory. One can transfer money from INR1,000 to 50,000  from designated iMO Post Offices. It is simple to send and receive money. Its logo has ‘iMO’ written in white in postal red background. https://www.indiapost.gov.in/VAS/Pages/faqs.aspx?Category=Jgo4qG+ZxEc3wHD7ZtUU9NThIOtpzsS7xyOeUQ0oEgE/nXKKEvZzW0TQ6dVijmOt1OEg62nOxLszjBaEP74NcA == https://www.indiapost.gov.in/Financial/pages/content/imo.aspx http://indiapost.gov.in/IMOS.aspx https://www.scribd.com/doc/298953769/Swamy-s-Symbols-of-India-Volume-1  

EXPRESS PARCEL POST Express Parcel Post is a service for sending the parcels upto 35 kg within India and is operated by the India Post. It is a fast and reliable sevice. Its logo has ‘Express’ written in italics on top and ‘Parcel’ and ‘Post’ written in reverse in red and blue respectively.   https://www.indiapost.gov.in/MBE/pages/content/parcel.aspx http://indiapost.gov.in/ExpressParcel.aspx https://www.scribd.com/doc/298953769/Swamy-s-Symbols-of-India-Volume-1  

SPEED POST Speed Post, the market leader in the domestic express industry, was started by Department of Posts in August 1986 for providing time-bound and express delivery of letters documents and parcels across the nation and around the world. In the past twenty years, it continues to be the market leader in the express industry with monthly volumes exceeding 1.4 crores. Speed Post ushered in a new era when ‘One India, One Rate’ scheme was launched at INR 25 for all destinations across India, from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. Now, Speed Post delivers ‘Value for money’ to every one every where, delivering local Speed Post upto 50 grams at INR 12, inclusive of Service Tax. For corporate customers and to regular users , Speed Post provides ‘home collection’, credit facilities, online tracking, account management and personalised services. Its logo has EMS written with horizontal blue lines and Speed post written in blue. EMS is prefixed and suffixed by a set of bright orange horizontal lines s

INDIA POST For more than 150 years, the Department of Post (DoP) has been the backbone of the India’s communication and has played a crucial role in the country’s socio-economic development. It touches the lives of Indian citizens in many ways: delivering mails, accepting deposits under Small Savings Schemes, providing life insurance cover under Postal Life Insurance (PLI) and Rural Postal Life Insurance (RPLI) and providing retail services like bill collection, sale of forms, etc. The DoP also acts as an agent for Government of India in discharging other services for citizens such as Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) wage disbursement and old age pension payments. With 1,55,618 Post Offices, the DoP has the most widely distributed postal network in the world. Its predominantly red coloured logo has three yellow swashes symbolising swift transfer of letters and documents. India Post in Devanagari and English are written on its top and bottom. htt

INDIAN COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) is an autonomous organisation under the Department of Agricultural Research and Education - DARE, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India. Formerly known as Imperial Council of Agricultural Research, it was established on 16 July 1929 as a registered society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 in pursuance of the report of the Royal Commission on Agriculture. The ICAR has its headquarters at New Delhi. The Council is the apex body for co-ordinating, guiding and managing research and education in agriculture including horticulture, fisheries and animal sciences in the entire country. With 97 ICAR institutes and 47 agricultural universities spread across the country this is one of the largest national agricultural systems in the world. The ICAR has played a pioneering role in ushering Green Revolution and subsequent developments in agriculture in India through its research and technolog

CENTRAL PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT On the proclamation of change of the capital from Calcutta to Delhi in December 1911, it became necessary to organise a public works department exclusively for buildings the new capital. A committee of experts was appointed by the Secretary of State to advise the Government with regard to the site of the new capital and its layout. With gradual completion of the capital project works, the Public Works Organisation was transferred to the administrative control of Department of Industries and Labour in Government of India. Central Public Works Department (CPWD) came into existence on April 1, 1930 to lookafter the vast office and residential campus of the Central Secretariat and allied offices. The logo of the CPWD is cerested with Ashoka Chakra has a blue multi storied building on a green leaf. A partial rising sun in light blue background is shown at the right top of the circle. A road and flyover forms the background. In the blue bordered circle at the