During the Financial Year 2021-22, Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) registered more than 1.67 Lakh company in-corporations as compared to 1.55 Lakh companies during FY 2020-21.

The increase is significant considering that number of companies incorporated during Financial Year 2020-21 were the highest in any of the previous years. The in-corporations during FY 2021-22 are 8% more than the incorporations during FY 2020-21. While MCA had registered 1.24 lakh companies during FY 2018-19 and 1.22 lakh companies in 2019-20 respectively, it had registered 1.55 Lakh companies during FY 2020-21.

As part of Government of India’s drive for Ease of Doing Business (EoDB), the MCA has taken many initiatives thereby saving as many procedures, time and cost for starting a business in India.

The MCA launched SPICe+ form in February 2020 and also integrated 11 different services mentioned below, across 3 Central Government Ministries/Departments (Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Ministry of Labour & Department of Revenue in the Ministry of Finance), 3 State Governments (Maharashtra, Karnataka and West Bengal), and NCT of Delhi:

• Name Reservation
• Company Incorporation
• Director Identification Number
• EPFO Registration No.
• ESIC Registration Number
• PAN
• TAN
• Profession Tax Registration Number for the state of Maharashtra, Karnataka and West Bengal
• Bank Account number and
• GSTN Number (on Optional basis)
• Shop and Establishment Registration No. for NCT of Delhi.

During FY 2021-22, the States having the highest number of registrations were Maharashtra (31,107 companies) followed by Uttar Pradesh (16,969 companies) Delhi (16,323 companies) Karnataka (13,403 companies) and Tamil Nadu (11,020 companies).

Sector wise, the maximum number of companies were incorporated in the Business Services (44,168 companies), followed by Manufacturing (34,640 Companies) Community, personal & Social Services (23,416 companies) and Agriculture & Allied Activities (13,387 companies).

The MCA is continuously striving to transform regulatory environment and has taken several measures in recent past towards EoDB like:-

• Revision of Definition of Small Companies which has reduced compliance burden on about 2 lakh companies
• Zero MCA fee for company incorporation up to ₹ 15 lakh authorised capital
• Incentivisation of incorporation of One Person Companies (OPCs)
• De-criminalisation of technical & procedural violations under Companies & LLP Act.

Ease of Doing Business: SPICe+ single window integration and regulatory reforms streamline company formation and compliance. The ministry consolidated multiple statutory registrations into the SPICe+ single window process-covering name reservation, incorporation, DIN issuance, labour and tax registrations, selected state registrations, optional GST capture and bank account facilitation-to expedite and centralize pre and immediate post incorporation formalities, alongside regulatory measures revising the Small Companies definition, waiving government incorporation fees up to a prescribed authorised capital, incentivising One Person Companies and de criminalising technical corporate violations.