The Government has recently constituted an Expert Committee to review e-forms and other overall filing process, in order to simplify procedures for stakeholders. The Committee will (a) review the ‘e-forms’ notified under the Companies Act, 2013, (b) suggest changes aimed at simplification of such forms and (c) removal of difficulties faced by stakeholders. The Committee has been asked to submit its report within two months.

This was stated by Shri Arun Jaitley, Minister of Corporate Affairs in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha today.

E-forms simplification: expert committee to streamline Companies Act filing processes and remove stakeholder compliance difficulties. An expert committee was constituted to review notified e-forms under the Companies Act, 2013, propose simplifications to forms and filing processes, and remove difficulties faced by stakeholders in statutory filings, with a requirement to submit a report within a short timeframe for Ministry consideration.