(i) Powers conferred upon Reserve Bank by FERA 1973 and Central Government Notifications issued under the Act are exercised by the Exchange Control Department of Reserve Bank. The Department has its Central Office at Mumbai and Offices at other centres with jurisdiction as indicated below:

Office	Jursidiction
Ahmedabad	State of Gujarat
Bangalore	State of Karnataka
Bhopal	State of Madhya Pradesh
Bhubaneswar	State of Orissa
Calcutta	State of Sikkim and West Bengal and Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Chandigarh	States of Haryana(excluding the Districts of Faridabad,Gurgaon and Sonepat),Himachal Pradesh and Punjab and Union Territory of Chandigarh
Chennai	State of Tamil Nadu and Union Territory of Pondicherry
Kochi	State of Kerala and Union Territory of Lakshadweep
Guwahati	States of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura
Hyderabad	State of Andhra Pradesh
Jaipur	State of Rajasthan
Kanpur	State of Uttar Pradesh excluding New Okhla Industrial Development Area (NOIDA) in Ghaziabad district
Mumbai	State of Maharashtra, Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Union Territory of Daman and Diu
New Delhi	Union Territory of Delhi, the districts of Faridabad, Gurgaon and Sonepat of State of Haryana and New Okhla Industrial Development Area (NOIDA) in Ghaziabad district of State of Uttar Pradesh
Panaji	State of Goa
Patna	State of Bihar
Jammu/Srinagar	State of Jammu and Kashmir

(ii) Nagpur Office of Reserve Bank will deal with applications from persons, firms and companies resident in the districts of Akola, Amravati, Bhandara, Buldhana, Chandrapur, Gadchiroli, Nagpur, Wardha and Yeotmal of the State of Maharashtra, for travel and sundry remittances outlined in Annexure I to Chapter 8 which are beyond the powers delegated to authorised dealers.

(iii) Reference to Reserve Bank should be made to the office of Exchange Control Department within whose jurisdiction the applicant person, firm or company resides or functions unless otherwise indicated. If for any particular reason, a firm or a company desires to deal with a different office of ECD, it may approach the office within whose jurisdiction it functions for necessary approval.