Marking a decline of 41.8 per cent, 1,777 companies were registered in India during April 2001, under the Companies Act, 1956 as against 3,055 companies in April 2000. During March 2001, 2,121 companies had registered under the Act.
Of the 1,777 companies, 1,765 were limited by shares including one government company--National Scheduled Tribes & Development Corporation Co. These include 99 public limited companies with an authorised capital of Rs 121 crore and 1,666 private limited companies with an authorised capital Rs 820 crore.
The balance seven companies were registered as guarantee companies and five as unlimited liability companies. The total authorised capital of the companies limited by shares was Rs 941 crore, according to an official statement issued by the government today.
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Seven states accounted for nearly 81 per cent of the total number of companies registered during the month. Of these, the highest number of companies, limited by shares registered during the month were reported from the state of Maharashtra (442) followed by the national capital territory of Delhi (365).
Tamil Nadu (192), Andhra Pradesh (134), Karnataka (114), Gujarat (95) and West Bengal (87) also reported a comparatively large number of companies registered during the month.
The analysis of the new registration by broad industrial classification during the month brings out that the highest number of companies were registered under the industrial classification "Financing, Insurance, Real estate and Business Services" (542) followed by "Manufacturing" (524).
The other important classification under which a large number of companies were registered was "Wholesale and Retail trade, Restaurants and Hotels" (317), 105 non-government companies (each with an authorised capital of Rs 50 lakh or above) were registered during the month of April 2001, as against 172 in the previous month and 368 in April 2000.
Twenty-six companies with a total paid-up capital of Rs 12.18 lakh ceased to function during the month either by going into liquidation or their names having been struck off under Section 560 of the Companies Act, 1956.
Out of them one (with zero paid-up capital) was a public limited company and 25 (with paid-up capital of Rs 12.18 lakh) were private limited. The number of such companies in the previous month was 59. Of the 26 companies, 18 belong to Assam, four to Karnataka, and one each to Meghalaya, Nagaland, West Bengal and Goa.
Out of the 26 companies, 10 belong to manufacturing, four to finance, insurance and real estate, four to wholesale and retail trade and restaurants and hotels, three to mining and quarrying and two to construction and three to other activities.