About
MCA
MCA has a three tier organizational set-up:
-
Headquarters at New Delhi
- Regional
Directors (RD) at Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Noida
- Registrar
of Companies (RoC) in States and Union Territories
MCA
Headquarters handles cases that require approval of
the GoI for citizen related functions. RD supervises
the functioning of RoCs and handles the matters delegated
by GoI while the RoC offices handle the bulk of citizen
facing functions.
The
Official Liquidators (OL) attached to various High Courts
functioning in the country are also under the overall
administrative control of the MCA. Its headquarters
at Delhi also includes two Directors of Inspection and
Investigation and Director of Research and Statistics.
MCA21
Program
Ministry of Company Affairs (MCA), Government of India
(GoI) has initiated MCA21 program, for easy and secure
access to MCA services in a manner that best suits the
businesses and citizens.
The
program goals have been set as follows keeping in mind
stakeholders' needs:
- Business
enabled to register a company and file statutory documents
quickly and easily
-
Public to get easy access to relevant
records and effective grievances redressal
- Professionals
to be able to offer efficient services to their client
companies
- Financial
Institutions to easily find charges registration
and verification
- Employees
to ensure proactive and effective compliance of relevant
laws and corporate governance
MCA21
is envisioned to provide anytime and anywhere services
to businesses. It is a pioneering program being the
first mission mode egovernance project being undertaken
in the country. This program builds on the GoI vision
to introduce a Service Oriented Approach in the design
and delivery of Government services, establish a healthy
business ecosystem and make the country globally competitive.
Program
Scope
MCA21 program will provide for anytime anywhere electronic
services with speed and certainty to all the stakeholders.
It will include:
- Design
and development of application system
- Setting
up of IT infrastructure
- Setting
up the Digital Signature/PKI delivery mechanisms and
associated security requirements
-
Setting up of Physical Front Offices (PFOs)
- Setting
up of temporary FOs for the peak periods to meet with
the requirements and subsequent shutdown of temporary
FOs at the end of such peak periods
- Migrating
legacy data and digitization of paper documents to
the new system
-
Providing MCA services to all MCA21 stakeholders in
accordance with the Service Oriented Approach
- Providing
user training at all levels and all offices (Front
and Back Offices)
The
MCA21 is designed to automate processes related to the
proactive enforcement and compliance of the legal requirements
under the Companies Act, 1956. However, it does not
include processes related to OL.
Key
Benefits
MCA21 seeks to fulfill the requirements of the various
stakeholders. The key benefits of MCA21 project are
The back office process relates to:
- Expeditious
incorporation of companies
- Simplified
and ease of convenience in filing of Forms/ Returns
- Better
compliance management
- Total
transparency through e-Governance
- Customer
centric approach
- Increased
usage of professional certificate for ensuring authenticity
and reliability of the Forms / Returns
- Building
up a centralised database repository of corporate
operating
- Enhanced
service level fulfillment
- Inspection
of public documents of companies anytime from anywhere
- Registration
as well as verification of charges anytime from anywhere
- Timely
redressal of investor grievances
- Availability
of more time for MCA employees for monitoring and
supervision
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