Question : OUTSTANDING INCOME-TAX

(a) the names of the top hundred companies/persons againstwhom the maximum amount of income-tax is still outstanding;and

(b) the action being taken against them to recover the same?

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE (SHRI GINGEE N. RAMACHANDRAN)

(A) The names of top hundred companies/persons against whom the Maximum amount of income-tax is outstanding is given in Annexure-A.

(b) Appropriate action, as provided for under the Income Tax Act, is taken for collection of arrears. Such action includes charging of interest and levy of penalty for non-payment and attachment of movable and immovable assets etc.

Annexure-I

LIST OF TOP HUNDRED COMPOANIES/PERSONS AS ON 30.6.2000

Sl.No.	Name
1. Sahara India Financial Corpn. Ltd(SISICOL)

2. Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd.

3. Oil & Natural Gas Commission

4. Sahara India Mutual Benefit Co. Ltd.

5. Ganapati Exports Ltd.
6. IFCI Ltd.

7 Gas Authority of India Ltd.

8. Tata Chemicals Ltd.

9. Growmore Research & Assets Management Ltd.
10. Fairgrowth Financial Services Ltd.
11. The Peerless General Financial & Inv. Co. Ltd.
12. The Premier Automobiles Ltd.
13. Asia Satellite Telecommunication Co. Ltd.
14. Canara Bank
15. Tata Sons Ltd.
16. Gujarat State Fertilizer Co. Ltd.
17. Ganapati Combines Ltd.
18. Tata Power Co. Ltd.
19. Dhanraj Mills P, Ltd.
20. East West Travel & Trade Links Ltd.
21. Cascade Holding P. Ltd.
22. Mideast India Ltd.
23. Kuber Mutual Benefit Ltd.
24. REPL Engg. Ltd.
25. Indian Petrochemicals Corpn. Ltd(IPCL)
26. NEPC Micon Ltd.
27. Larson & Toubro Ltd.
28 Kedia CastleDelion Industries Ltd.
29 Rajendra Steels Ltd.
30	R.M. Machines(P) Ltd.
31	Bajaj Auto Ltd.
32	Caribjet Inc.
33	Sabre Group
34	Lucent Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
35	Growmore Leasing & Invst. P. Ltd.
36	Maruti Udyog Ltd.
37	Ericsson Radio Systems A.B.
38	Nokia Network
39	Tata Engg. & Locomotive Co. Ltd.
40	Asea Brown Boveri Ltd.
41	Indian Oil Corporation Ltd.
42	Mahanadi Coal Fields (P) Ltd.
43	Andhra Valley Power Supply Co. Ltd.
44	Shaw Wallace & Co. Ltd.
45	Cochin Refineries Ltd.
46	Essar Steels Ltd.
47	Metropolitan Co-op. Bank Ltd.
48	Northern Coal Fields Ltd.
49	Asian Consolidated Industries Ltd.
50	CRB Capital Market Co. Ltd.
51	Tata Finance Ltd.
52	Indian Hotel Co. Ltd.
53	Bombay Burmah Trading Corpn. Lftd.
54	Orson Electdronics Ltd.
55	Rushebh Capital & Finance Ltd.
56	Spectrum Power Generation Ltd.
57	Maharashtdra State Electricity Board
58	Tata Hydro Electric Power Supply Co. Ltd.
59	Gujarat Electdricity Board
60	Arvind Mills Ltd.
61	Apollo Tubes & Steel Industries Ltd
62	Okara Agro Products Pvt. Ltd
63	JVG Finance Ltd
64	Trident Steel Ltd
65	IDBI
66	Patel India P. Ltd
67	Western Coal Field Ltd
68	Pathija Forgings & Auto Parts Mfg. Co. Ltd.
69	Chinar Cigarrattes P. Ltd.
70	ANZ Grindlays Bank (Foreign Bank)
71	Amadeus Marketing
72	Allied Signal Ind.
73	Essar Projects Ltd
74	Airpoort Authority of India
75	Indian Overseas Bank Ltd.
76	Wipro Finance Ltd
77	Harshad S. Mehta
78	Hiten P. Dalal
79	Bhupendra C. Dalal
80	Ashwin S. Mehta
81	S. Ramaswamy
82	Jyoti H. Hehta
83	Sudhir S. Mehta
84	Subrato Roy
85	Harshad S. Mehta (W.T.)
86	J.P. Gandhi
87	Niranjan J. Shah
88	Pallav S. Sheth
89	P.K. Sharma
90	Uday M. Acharya
91	Surendra M. Khandar
92	Shirish C. Shah
93	Kalpesh L. Thakkar
94	S.K. Jain(Director of BEC Ltd)
95	Bimal S. Gandhi
96	A.D. Narottam
97	Lt. Col. Bhawani Singh & Others(Indl.) W.T.
98	Pratima H. Mehta
99	Super Cassetes Industries Ltd.
100	Deepika A. Mehta(Smt.)