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Corporate Affairs Ministry today said it is looking into all IPL franchises in the face of the controversy over team owners, a move that is in tandem with I-T probe into source of funding of the games body. Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said his ministry would find out “the rules of engagement” of all IPL franchises.
In what would be good news for many firms, a scheme is being prepared to avoid criminal prosecution for delay in filing one’s balance-sheet with the Registrar of Companies (RoC).The Union ministry of corporate affairs is working on a scheme of compounding, which also modifies the existing charges in this regard for regularising the delay, beside the proposed avoidance of criminal prosecution. It is likely to be rolled out in September and is being discussed with the various regulators.
As per the information available on the website of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA), Government of India, a company would be deemed to be a vanishing company, if it is found to have: 1. Failed to file returns with Registrar of Companies (ROC) for a period of 2 years; 2. Failed to file returns with Stock Exchange (SE) for a period of 2 years (if it continues to be a listed company);
A meeting of the Core Group constituted by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs for convergence of Indian Accounting Standards with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) from the year 2011 was held on 29th March, 2010 under the chairmanship of Shri R. Bandyopadhyay, Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs. The meeting was attended by the officials from Ministry of Finance, SEBI, RBI, IRDA, C&AG, PFRDA, ICAI, Industry representatives and other experts.
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs will launch the regional version of its just-launched investor education protection fund (IEPF) website in the next six months to educate investors about the stock markets, ministry secretary R Bandyopadhay said.
Corporate affairs minister Salman Khurshid said his ministry is studying ways to prevent over-pricing of initial public offers and monitoring the end use of funds raised through IPOs to prevent fund diversion.Khurshid also said his ministry is examining the report of the expert group to suggest steps for monitoring the end use of IPO funds.
Shri Salman Khurshid, Minister for Corporate Affairs, here today launched the Hindi website of Investor Education and Protection Fund (IEPF), which is being administered by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. The address of the website is: www.iepf.gov.in.
The corporate affairs ministry has decided to act tough with public sector undertakings (PSUs) that have not prepared and submitted their financial statements with the registrar of companies. As many as 658 state-run PSUs have piled up 2,539 accounts, with some pending for as long as 26 years.
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) could soon get more teeth to monitor the end-use of money raised through initial public offerings by companies. The ministry of corporate affairs (MCA), which currently performs this role through the registrar of companies, wants Sebi to be roped in for this task, since companies divert funds through complex mechanisms that require expert hands to track.
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs had released voluntary guidelines on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) during the ‘India Corporate Week’ organized in December last year. A number of corporates have stated that they would like to have an effective framework for reporting their responsible business practices. Keeping in view this feedback from the Corporate Sector, Shri R. Bandyopadhyay, Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, stated here today that the Ministry is in the process of designing an e-form under MCA-21 which will enable the corporates to file their CSR report on the portal of the Ministry.
