What is MCA
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (i.e., MCA) is progressively implementing the third version of the flagship project MCA21 (NCA 21 Version-3). As a part of the first phase, MCA will carry out the following-
- Upgradation of the current version of the MCA website; and
- Introduction of the following two new public-facing modules-
- E-Consultation; and
- E-Book.
- Simplify the compliance procedure; and
- Provide complete information and data about the applicable act; rules and regulations.
E-Books and use thereof-
Basically, the E-Books module is launched by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs to-
Both registered as well as non-registered users can access the E-Books by following the below steps-
STEP 1 - Visit site https://www.mca.gov.in/content/mca/global/en
STEP 2 - Click 'Acts & Rules' available on the home page.
STEP 3- By following the above steps, a List of Acts and a List of Recent Amendments will be displayed.
- Proposed amendments/ draft legislation will be posted for public consultation,
- Users are allowed to submit their comments/ suggestions on such proposed amendments/ draft legislations.
- Registered user – such a person can access the module by login into the MCA website.
- Guest user – the non-registered person can even access the module available on the home page of the website.
- Documents available for comments will be accessible with the posting date and comments due date on the E-Consultation home page.
- For successful posting of comments by the guest user, it is necessary
to-
- Fill in the user profile information like-
- Name,
- Name of the organization,
- E-mail ID,
- Address,
- Industry of operation.
- Verify the e-mail ID and mobile number via OTP.
- Fill in the user profile information like-
- While commenting, the user can attach the supporting documents up to a maximum size of 25MB.
- The users are allowed to modify the comments/ suggestions in the following manner-
- Login to the MCA website.
- Visit the E-Consultation page.
- Modify the comments and submit the same.
- Enter the new comment.
- Provide the same PAN/ Aadhar/ CIN/ FCRN/ LLPIN/ FLLPIN which was provided while entering an earlier comment.
- On entering the same number, a confirmation will appear asking to overwrite the previous comment.
- On confirming overwriting, the previous comment will be over-written with the new comment.
E-consultation and use thereon-
E-consultation is featured as one of the web page available on the home page of the MCA website. Mostly, e-consultation is an online platform, wherein, following would be undertaken-
Following are the two ways through which the E-Consultation module can be accessed-
Important points regarding the posting of comments/ suggestions-
| Type of user | Manner to modify the comments |
| Registered user |
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| Guest user |
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