Company Secretary & Compliance Officer
17858 Points
Joined November 2008
Corporate Identiy Number has been designed to easiy identify companies belonging to the STATE, Industry or age of the company.
It is 21 digit alpha numeric number as under:-
Ex:- U25209DL1973PLC003526
First Letter is L/U denotes whether the company is listed or not.
Second 5 digits represent the economic activity of the company
Next 2 letters represents the state in which the registered office of the Company is situated.
Next four digits indicate the year of incorporation.
Next three places indicate ownershop code
And last six places in the CIN are the unique number assigned to every company in any particular activity in the particular state by the ROC.
At the time of incorporation ROC allot CIN to each company, in the Certificate of Incorporation you would get the CIN of each company.