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Thursday, Feb 23, 2006

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Registering companies, just a click away

M. Soundariya Preetha

MCA-21 portal gives all details about e-filing

— Photo: S. Siva Saravanan

CORPORATE LOG IN: A consultant with a Delhi-based company using the e-filing facility of the Ministry of Company Affairs on his laptop.

COIMBATORE: A new company, Corporate Professionals Consultants India Private Limited, was registered at the Registrar of Companies (RoC) here on Monday. What makes it special is, it was registered almost completely online.

Subsequent to the pilot launch of the e-governance project of the Ministry of Company Affairs (MCA-21) here on Saturday (February 18), the new company was incorporated using the online facility.

Corporate Professionals is a unit of the Delhi-based Corporate Professionals Group (offering consultancy in areas such as company laws and SEBI related services). This is the first company in the country to be incorporated using the new online facility, says V. Selvaraj, Registrar of Companies here.

With the new facility, the office of the RoC needs just about half-an-hour to scrutinise and issue the certificate of incorporation provided all required data have been given and the necessary fees have been remitted, he adds.

Under the e-governance project, a public-private partnership of the Ministry and Tata Consultancy Services Limited, companies can file all documents and make the payments online.

The MCA-21 portal gives all details about e-filing and a facilitation centre (front office) here helps the companies in e-filing.

Parvesh K. Kheterpal, Principal Consultant of Corporate Professionals, said, he downloaded the required forms from the MCA portal, filled them and then went to the facilitation centre.

He scanned the necessary photographs and documents, uploaded the forms and made the statutory payments through a challan.

Only those forms that had stamp duty payment were submitted in the physical form as proof of the payment, he said.

The system checks whether all mandatory details have been filled and even the information can be scrutinised online.

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