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MCA services down, entrepreneurs can't register new company since past many days
Moneylife Digital Team 21 April 2016
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs' website developed and maintained by Infosys is again giving nightmares to stakeholders as many of its popular services, including registration of new company, are unavailable 
 
 
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA)'s new company registration webpage is down since 25 March 2016. This is in contrast with the Narendra Modi government promise to help entrepreneurs to register new company within three minutes with just a single form. Taking cognisance of the ire on Twitter, Nirmala Sitharaman, the Minister of State for Commerce and Industry, asked one Ravi Kalantri, who has been tweeting on the issue, to contact MCA Joint Secretary KVR Murthy.
 
Following the tweet from the Minister, the MCA page for company registration was displaying a message tendering apologies. However, there was no information about when the original webpage and thus the service would be restored. 
 
 
"Register a new company" is among the top five most frequently used services on the MCA website. However, besides this two other webpages, for "Change Company Information" and "Compliance/Approval Filing" are also down. The MCA website is mostly accessed and used by Chartered Accountants (CAs), lenders and shareholders. It contains data and financial details of all companies registered with the MCA. The initiative is designed to fully automate all processes related to enforcement and compliance of the legal requirements under the Companies Act.
 
Mr Kalantri from Ahmedabad has been tweeting about the issues since past several days. On 18th April he tweeted about not being able to register new company since past 20 days. Next day, he tweeted an image of MCA URL for new company registration that was not found. 
 
 
Mr Kalantri, in one of his tweet marked to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Ms Sitharaman, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, says, "This issue is not resolved from 25th March. Any accountability in MCA?"
 
Another entity, Weprofit.in with a Twitter handle of Dabang Trader tweeted that his company registration was late by three months as the portal of Registrar of Companies (ROC) was down. 
 
 
Responding to the tweets, Ms Sitharaman requested Mr Kalantri to contact MCA Joint Secretary KVR Murthy. It was after this tweet from the Minister the MCA registration page displayed an apology. 
 
 
The MCA portal is developed and maintained by none other than Infosys Ltd, one of India's top IT company. But then again, with Infosys, this is not time users have to face issues. Earlier, there was a hue and cry about MCA21 portal not functioning following takeover by Infosys from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). (Read: MCA21 is down for a month after a handover of the management by TCS to Infosys. Why? ) 
 
It was supposed to be a simple handover between two of India's best and most reputed IT companies. But the MCA21 portal was down for months. As Moneylife has reported several times in during February 2013 to September 2013m, the MCA21, the showpiece of e-Governance and corporate filing portal, which, for the first time had made all corporate filings available online, was found been sputtering. Later in September 2013, Infosys accepted that there were some problems with MCA21 due to updation of its intrusion prevention system (IPS) signatures. (Read: Infosys explains why MCA21 has issues)
 
While Ms Sitharaman, the Minister, has responded promptly to a tweet, it is to be seen when the services offered by MCA would be restored by Infosys. 
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Nikhil Vadia
9 years ago
Even to my tweet Minister has responded but nothing is happening. MCA is one of the worst site.
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