According to Census 2011[1], 25 million of the country's 331 million dwellings are unoccupied. The state with the most vacant dwellings is Maharashtra which has around 3.7 million unoccupied residences followed by Uttar Pradesh which has 2.4 million vacant dwellings. The Census also shows that more than 95 percent of the dwellings assessed are in …
Effective Use of Blockchain in the Legal Sector – A near future or a distant possibility?
By Chandan Goswami & Eeshan Pandey The decision of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in Internet and Mobile Association of India v. Reserve Bank of India[1]has brought the legal sector’s attention back to the distributed ledger technology that formed the very basis of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Even though the law to regulate cryptocurrencies is still in …
SEED FUNDING AND START-UPS
By Chandan Goswami & Aditi Gupta* A Start-up company means a private company incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956 or 2013 and recognized as a start-up under the notification issued by the DIPP, Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Perceived as being capable of offering abundant opportunities for startups, India can be termed as the "posterchild" …
THE LAW ON CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS
By Chandan Goswami A Non-Governmental Organization (NGO)/charitable institutions/ voluntary organizations is any nonprofit community, legally constituted, organized and operated by a group of citizens, on a local, national or international level. The competency to legislate on charities or charitable institutions is provided under schedule VII of the Indian Constitution. It falls under concurrent list and …