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The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) will probe management and auditors of 12 listed companies, including Raj Television Network and Surya Lakshmi Cotton Mills, for allegedly providing false information about the shareholding pattern. 'MCA believes the 12 companies under scanner furnished false info regarding their share breakup to Regional Directors (RDs)', an official said. The ministry is likely to soon ask the Regional Directors concerned to probe role of auditors.. Full Article

The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) has proposed vide notification dated 06.06.2011 that all public companies and their subsidiaries convert share certificates and bonds into an electronic (demat) form. The Companies (Dematerialization of Certificates) Rules, 2011, are proposed to come into force from October 1. All new issuances will also have to be in demat form. MCA has also proposed to make this mandatory for all existing paper certificates by September 30. Full Article

The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has directed its Regional Directors to initiate inquiry against those practicing professionals who had certified 12 cases of wrong e-filing by certain listed companies in their e-forms. During the examination it was found that the data furnished in the e-forms were totally different as compared to the records of the company. Full Article

Union Ministry of Corporate Affairs today said it will organise a Lok Adalat for companies for the first time on June 11, with an intention of minimising litigation and avoid unnecessary prosecution against defaulting companies. The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has decided to organise Lok Adalat for companies for settlement of compoundable offences for the first time ever. The first such Lok Adalat is going to be held in Chandigarh, Registrar of Companies (Punjab, Himac.. Full Article

Speak Asia is not registered in India so we cannot do any investigation against it. MCA does not have any database of the company," Corporate Affairs Secretary D K Mittal told reporters on the sidelines of an AIMA event here. Singapore-based Speak Asia, promoted by Hariender Kaur, was incorporated last year. So far, it only has operations in India and claims to have 19 lakh members or panelists in the country. Full Article

The Ministry of Corporate Affairs today said efforts were on to create a platform where different regulators could sit together with an aim to align regulatory overlaps for the benefit of corporates. When we have multiple regulators there has to be some way that they interact with each other so that the procedures are in line with each other. We are in the process of finalising something..., MCA Secretary D K Mittal told reporters on the sidelines of a AIMA event here. Full Article

Consider the enormity of the data-over 8 and a half lac companies, over hundred online services offered to them, over sixty e-forms. hundreds of data fields and crores of pages of pdf attachments. If this speaks about something. it is the challenge before the Regulator, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA), which is humongous. While MCA is responsible for providing convenient and transparent registry and e-filing services to one set of stakeholders, which is the corpo.. Full Article

On 1 April 2011, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) in India posted a circular on its website mandating a certain class of companies (Phase 1) to file balance sheets and profit and loss accounts for the year 2010-11 onwards by using eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL). The financial statements required to be filed in XBRL format will be based upon the taxonomy on XBRL developed for the existing Schedule VI and non-converged accounting standards notified un.. Full Article