By making PAN compulosory for interest income above 10,000 Govt. is just harrassing the common man and the senior citizens. When the basic exemption limit itself is 150,000 there is no logic for this rule. First catch hold of big amount of black money involved in real estate, share market and some huge deposits kept in Bank SB/Current/term deposits (say above 25 lakhs above). I hope finance minister will rectify the mistakes and uses his thinking power to unearth the black money.