Lok Sabha Question No. 1204 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-07-25
Subject: Companies Owned by Scheduled Tribes
Ministry: CORPORATE AFFAIRS
Asked by: Naba (Hira) Kumar Sarania

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS

## LOK SABHA

## UN-STARRED QUESTION NO. 1204

ANSWERED ON MONDAY, JULY 25, 2022/ SRAVANA 3, 1944 (SAKA)

## COMPANIES OWNED BY SCHEDULED TRIBES

## QUESTION

1204. SHRI NABA KUMAR SARANIA:

Will the Minister of CORPORATE AFFAIRS

be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of the Scheduled Tribes owned companies registered in the country;
- (b) the amount of CSR fund spent by them during the last five years;
- (c) the number of companies of North-Eastern States which have spent CSR fund on different activities;
- (d) the details of the total number of registered and at present operational companies in the country, State-wise;
- (e) the number and names of the companies operational in the tea-garden sector and their annual income at present; and
- (f) the amount of CSR fund spent on different activities by the different tea companies in the country during the last five years?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION; MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE  MINISTRY  OF  PLANNING;  AND  MINISTER  OF  STATE  IN  THE  MINISTRY  OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS

[RAO INDERJIT SINGH]

(a)and(b): Separate data for companies owned by scheduled Tribes is not maintained by  Ministry  of  Corporate  Affairs  (MCA)  as  there  is  no    such  requirement  under Companies Act, 2013.

- (c): There are 57 companies of North-Eastern States which have spent CSR fund on different activities as per filing data upto March 2022.
- (d): The details of number of companies registered and having active status/operational, state-wise are as under:-

|   S. No. | State/UT          | Registered   | Active/operational   |
|----------|-------------------|--------------|----------------------|
|        1 | Andaman & Nicobar | 597          | 464                  |
|        2 | Andhra Pradesh    | 40,232       | 25,898               |
|        3 | Arunachal Pradesh | 786          | 450                  |
|        4 | Assam             | 14,944       | 10,676               |
|        5 | Bihar             | 48,304       | 33,776               |
|        6 | Chandigarh        | 16,305       | 7,854                |
|        7 | Chhattisgarh      | 13,842       | 10,267               |

| 8   | Dadra & Nagar Haveli   | 650       | 477       |
|-----|------------------------|-----------|-----------|
| 9   | Daman and Diu          | 425       | 265       |
| 10  | Delhi                  | 380,128   | 221,577   |
| 11  | Goa                    | 9,902     | 4,936     |
| 12  | Gujarat                | 124,261   | 77,820    |
| 13  | Haryana                | 68,422    | 50,254    |
| 14  | Himachal Pradesh       | 8,052     | 4,722     |
| 15  | Jammu & Kashmir        | 7,961     | 4,955     |
| 16  | Jharkhand              | 19,603    | 14,182    |
| 17  | Karnataka              | 153,347   | 98,764    |
| 18  | Kerala                 | 69,645    | 45,032    |
| 19  | Lakshadweep            | 30        | 23        |
| 20  | Leh and Ladakh         | 90        | 68        |
| 21  | Madhya Pradesh         | 50,954    | 31,941    |
| 22  | Maharashtra            | 455,701   | 283,892   |
| 23  | Manipur                | 1,527     | 1,245     |
| 24  | Meghalaya              | 1,184     | 701       |
| 25  | Mizoram                | 270       | 194       |
| 26  | Nagaland               | 737       | 386       |
| 27  | Odisha                 | 33,915    | 22,215    |
| 28  | Puducherry             | 3,605     | 1,556     |
| 29  | Punjab                 | 37,331    | 20,615    |
| 30  | Rajasthan              | 74,212    | 47,886    |
| 31  | Sikkim                 | 2         | 1         |
| 32  | Tamil Nadu             | 172,771   | 95,182    |
| 33  | Telangana              | 135,570   | 82,829    |
| 34  | Tripura                | 970       | 784       |
| 35  | Uttar Pradesh          | 152,809   | 108,096   |
| 36  | Uttarakhand            | 12,104    | 8,812     |
| 37  | West Bengal            | 222,770   | 132,606   |
|     | Total                  | 23,33,958 | 14,51,401 |

(Above Data taken upto 30.04.2022).

(e) and (f) : MCA does not maintain data separately for companies in the tea-garden sector and CSR fund spent by these companies.  However, details of CSR expenditure by all Companies - (including tea companies) during last five financial years are as under:

| Financial Year               | 2016-17   | 2017-18   | 2018-19   | 2019-20   | 2020-21   |
|------------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| CSR Expenditure (in Rs. Cr.) | 14,344.87 | 17,098.18 | 20,172.07 | 24,891.63 | 24,865.46 |

The above data  is up to March 2022. The  companies are required to file the  CSR details for the financial year 2021-22 on or before 31.03.2023.

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