SEBI circular dated February 8, 2019 brought in concept of annual secretarial compliance report and Annual secretarial audit report. This write-up deliberates upon the above mentioned reports and the motive behind bringing in the same.
On 22nd January, 2019 MCA came up with a new sub-rule under Companies (Acceptance of Deposits), Rules, 2014 which says that every company (other than government company) shall file an onetime return of outstanding receipt of money or Loan by a Company but not considered as deposits and an explanation is added in Rule 16 of Companies (Acceptance of Deposits), Rules, 2014 in e form DPT-3 .