Government of India 
Ministry of Finance 
Department of Revenue
Notification
No. 12/2010-Service Tax
New Delhi, the 27th February, 2010
G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 
93 of
the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994) (hereinafter referred to as the Finance Act), 
the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public 
interest so to do, hereby exempts the taxable service referred to in sub-clause 
(zzd) of clause (105) of section 65 of the Finance Act, in relation to the 
following from the whole of the service tax, namely:-
(i) erection, commissioning or installation of mechanised food grain handling 
systems;
(ii) erection, commissioning or installation of equipment for setting up or 
substantial expansion of cold storage;
(iii) installation and commissioning of machinery or equipment for initial 
setting up or
substantial expansion of units for processing agricultural, apiary, 
horticultural, dairy, poultry, aquatic and marine products and meat.
2. This notification shall come into force on the date of its publication in the 
Gazette of
India.
[F. No. 334/1/2010 -TRU]
(Prashant Kumar) 
Under Secretary to the Government of India