Lok Sabha Question No. 3703 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-03-24
Subject: Companies Registered through Central Registration Centre
Ministry: CORPORATE AFFAIRS
Asked by: Dr. Rajesh Mishra, Shri Pradeep Kumar Singh, Shri Arun Govil

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3703

## ANSWERED ON MONDAY, 24 th  March 2025

Companies Registered through Central Registration Centre

3703. Shri Pradeep Kumar Singh:

Dr. Rajesh Mishra: Shri Arun Govil:

## Will the Minister of Corporate Affairs be pleased to state:

- (a) The number of companies registered through Central Registration Centre in the country, State-wise particularly from Meerut;
- (b) The benefits likely to accrue by introducing centralised processing in the Country, State-wise particularly in Meerut; and
- (c) The number of forms being processed through Central Processing Centre?

## ANSWER

THE MINISTER OF STATE OF THE MINISTRY OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS AND MINISTRY OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS.

(HARSH MALHOTRA)

- (a) Total number of companies registered through Central Registration  Centre  in  the  Country,  State-wise  particularly  from Meerut, Uttar Pradesh are attached as Annexure A.
- (b) Central Registration Centre (CRC) was set up in January, 2016 with an aim of providing greater  Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) to all the stake holders and has resulted in faster processing of 'Name Availability'  and  'Incorporation'  relating  e -Forms.  The  Ministry  of Corporate  Affairs  has  deployed  a  new  Web  Form  called  SPICe+ which along with a linked form called AGILE PRO-S provides various services  through  a  single  integrated  web  form  through  which multiple approvals can be obtained such as : -

i).Name Reservation, ii). Incorporation, iii). PAN, iv). TAN, v). DIN, vi).EPFO Registration, vii).ESIC Registration, viii).GST number, ix). Bank Account Number by various Banks, x). Profession Tax Registration (Mumbai, Karnataka and West Bengal (Kolkata), xi). Delhi Shops and Establishment Registration. Centralized registration of companies has also resulted in faster processing  of  incorporation  related  applications,  uniformity  in application of rules. (c).  Central  Processing  Centre  (CPC)  was  opened  on  2 nd February,2024 to process those e-forms which require approval of ROCs,  the  Non  Straight  Through  Processing  (Non  STP)  forms. Presently  12  e-forms  are  processed  at  CPC.  A  total  of  98,098 number of e-forms have been processed up to 19.03.2025.

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## Annexure A  related to Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 3703 to be answered on 24.03.2025.

The number of Companies registered through Central Registration Centre in the Country State-wise is as under:

| State                       | 2016-17   | 2017- 18   | 2018- 19   | 2019- 20   | 2020- 21   | 2021- 22   | 2022- 23   | 2023- 24   | 2024- 25   |
|-----------------------------|-----------|------------|------------|------------|------------|------------|------------|------------|------------|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 50        | 50         | 41         | 36         | 43         | 67         | 63         | 86         | 39         |
| Andhra Pradesh              | 2,309     | 2,418      | 2,794      | 2,815      | 3,436      | 3,326      | 2,984      | 3,690      | 3,688      |
| Arunachal Pradesh           | 16        | 37         | 37         | 32         | 67         | 86         | 86         | 207        | 112        |
| Assam                       | 408       | 523        | 676        | 828        | 1,203      | 1,551      | 1,556      | 1,851      | 1,480      |
| Bihar                       | 2,708     | 3,472      | 3,897      | 4,242      | 5,611      | 5,739      | 5,037      | 6,294      | 5,442      |
| Chandigarh                  | 452       | 444        | 494        | 506        | 614        | 675        | 572        | 628        | 503        |
| Chattisgarh                 | 537       | 512        | 655        | 838        | 1,379      | 1,478      | 1,301      | 1,620      | 1,413      |
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli        | 17        | 23         | 29         | 16         | 53         | 44         | 36         | 18         | 19         |
| Daman and Diu               | 12        | 17         | 23         | 18         | 25         | 23         | 24         | 32         | 26         |
| Delhi                       | 15,907    | 15,787     | 15,820     | 14,614     | 16,091     | 16,282     | 15,585     | 17,013     | 14,319     |
| Goa                         | 299       | 316        | 383        | 393        | 411        | 461        | 584        | 633        | 603        |
| Gujarat                     | 4,632     | 4,793      | 5,672      | 5,787      | 8,198      | 8,753      | 8,969      | 10,209     | 9,333      |
| Haryana                     | 4,277     | 4,767      | 5,829      | 5,938      | 7,709      | 8,011      | 7,572      | 9,504      | 8,430      |
| Himachal Pradesh            | 337       | 394        | 452        | 440        | 615        | 756        | 641        | 782        | 695        |
| Jammu & Kashmir             | 271       | 447        | 552        | 493        | 820        | 1,055      | 1,016      | 1,433      | 1,230      |
| Jharkhand                   | 1,036     | 1,340      | 1,550      | 1,428      | 2,045      | 2,064      | 1,756      | 2,145      | 1,766      |
| Karnataka                   | 8,922     | 9,753      | 11,084     | 10,448     | 12,291     | 13,405     | 12,134     | 14,870     | 11,924     |
| Kerala                      | 3,072     | 3,941      | 4,710      | 4,483      | 6,409      | 6,411      | 5,768      | 6,258      | 5,470      |
| Ladakh                      | 4         | 10         | 3          | 5          | 14         | 27         | 11         | -          | -          |
| Lakshadweep                 | -         | -          | 4          | 2          | 7          | 3          | 3          | 8          | 3          |
| Madhya Pradesh              | 2,178     | 2,354      | 2,741      | 2,943      | 4,357      | 4,547      | 4,768      | 5,432      | 4,550      |
| Maharashtra                 | 17,507    | 19,441     | 23,018     | 22,676     | 28,051     | 31,113     | 29,141     | 32,599     | 27,636     |
| Manipur                     | 51        | 126        | 195        | 225        | 217        | 236        | 233        | 218        | 217        |
| Meghalaya                   | 19        | 30         | 25         | 39         | 49         | 69         | 80         | 83         | 75         |
| Mizoram                     | 12        | 15         | 22         | 26         | 18         | 69         | 46         | 75         | 71         |
| Nagaland                    | 25        | 21         | 29         | 35         | 57         | 70         | 69         | 147        | 97         |
| Orissa                      | 1,527     | 1,751      | 2,162      | 2,047      | 3,147      | 3,242      | 2,820      | 3,217      | 2,848      |
| Pondicherry                 | 93        | 122        | 128        | 133        | 155        | 132        | 186        | 189        | 178        |
| Punjab                      | 1,048     | 1,328      | 1,578      | 1,590      | 2,071      | 2,364      | 2,421      | 3,080      | 2,496      |
| Rajasthan                   | 2,702     | 3,041      | 3,625      | 3,977      | 5,640      | 6,138      | 6,025      | 6,884      | 6,821      |
| Sikkim                      | 2         | -          | -          | -          | -          | -          | -          | 1          | -          |
| Tamil Nadu                  | 6,652     | 7,427      | 8,186      | 8,221      | 9,630      | 11,015     | 10,584     | 12,634     | 11,150     |
| Telangana                   | 6,588     | 7,081      | 8,213      | 8,172      | 10,132     | 10,871     | 10,248     | 12,304     | 10,822     |

| Tripura       | 36    | 42     | 102    | 115    | 125    | 178    | 113    | 175    | 133    |
|---------------|-------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
| Uttar Pradesh | 8,716 | 10,501 | 12,427 | 12,302 | 16,136 | 16,968 | 17,343 | 20,610 | 17,454 |
| Uttarakhand   | 681   | 866    | 1,063  | 1,179  | 1,353  | 1,490  | 1,556  | 1,704  | 1,568  |
| West Bengal   | 4,750 | 4,884  | 5,722  | 5,678  | 7,200  | 8,367  | 7,971  | 8,684  | 7,371  |

(Source: Data has been taken from MCA-21 Portal)

The number of Companies registered through Central Registration Centre in Meerut is as under:

| Year   |   2016 |   2017 |   2018 |   2019 |   2020 |   2021 |   2022 |   2023 |   2024 |   2025 | Total   |
|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|---------|
| Meerut |    175 |    304 |    324 |    306 |    334 |    417 |    486 |    418 |    432 |    144 | 3,340   |

(Source: Data has been taken from MCA-21 Portal)