IMMEDIATE

General Circular No. 8 /2001

By E-mail

 

No.1/6/2000-CL.V

Government of India

Ministry of Law, Justice & Company Affairs

Department of company Affairs

 

5th Floor, ‘A’ Wing, Shastri Bhavan,

Dr. Rajendra Prasad Road, New Delhi-1.

 

Dated 30th March, 2001

To

 

1.     All Regional Directors

2.     All Registrar of Companies

 

Subject: - E-Corporate business Working Group to Synergise the provisions of

               the Companies Act, 1956 with the Information Technology Act, 2000.

 

Sir,

 

          In continuation to this Department’s General Circular No.12/2000 (No.1/6/2000-CL.V dated 25th October, 2000) intimating the instructions to allocate a Corporate Identity Number (CIN) to each company registered on or after 1st November, 2000 I am directed to say that it has been decided that allotment of a Corporate Identity Number (CIN) to companies registered prior to 1.11.2000 shall be completed within a year in a phased manner as indicated below:-

 

Phase

Companies registered during the period

CIN to be allotted

1st

1.1.1995 to 31.10.2000

Within  3 months  from 1.5.2001 to 31.7.2001

2nd

1.1.1985 to 31.12.1994

Within 3 months from 1.8.2001 to 31.10.2001

3rd

1.1.1971 to 31.12.1984

Within 3 months from 1.11.2001 to 31.1.2002

4th

1.1.1956 to 31.12.1970

Within 2 months from 1.2.2002 to 31.3.2002

5th

Companies registered prior to   1.1.1956

Within    1  month        from

1.4. 2002 to 30.4.2002

 

 

2.      All Registrar of Companies are directed to act accordingly and the concerned companies may be informed about the allotment of CIN. The small ROC offices shall finish the work as early as possible.  ROCs shall send their compliance report to their respective Regional Director within 7 days after completion of every phase.

 

3.      All Regional Directors are also requested to ensure that the work is finished within the target dates and consolidated compliance reports may be sent to the Department within 10 days after completion of every phase.

 

4.      A copy of this circular is also available on web site http://www.nic.in/dca/ of the Department.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

 

(R.N. Vaswani)

Under Secretary to the Govt. of India

(Tel:3389622)