The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) is set to roll out the final set of 38 company e-forms on its upgraded V3 portal starting July 14, 2025, marking a major step forward in the government’s digital corporate governance initiatives. The launch comes with strict compliance timelines and no relaxations, emphasizing the urgency for all stakeholders to ensure seamless transition and avoid penal consequences.
"In our continuous endeavour to serve you better, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs is launching final set of 38 Company Forms [including 13 Annual filing forms, 6 Audit/Cost audit forms] on 14th July 2025 at 12:00 AM.
Key Deadlines Announced
- Disabling of V2 e-Filings: The existing V2 portal will cease e-filing operations from June 18, 2025.
- Discontinuation of Pay Later Option: Offline payments via "Pay Later" will stop from June 8, 2025.
- V3 Portal Downtime: The V3 portal will be unavailable from July 9 to July 13, 2025 due to system upgrades for the form deployment.
List of all the 38 forms has been attached below
To facilitate implementation of these forms in V3 MCA21 portal, stakeholders are advised to note the following points:
(1) Company e-Filings on V2 portal will be disabled from 18th June 2025 12:00 AM. Thus, all the stakeholders are advised to ensure that no SRNs are under pending payment/Resubmission status.
(2) Offline payments in V2 using Pay later option will be stopped from 08th June 2025 12:00 AM. Therefore, you are requested to make payments for these forms in V2 through online mode only. (Credit/Debit Card and Net Banking)
(3) In view of the upcoming launch, V3 portal will not be available from 09th July 2025 12:00 AM to 13th July 2025 11:59 PM. Accordingly, stakeholders are advised to plan and file/resubmit current V3 forms before 09th July 2025 as there will be no waiver of fees or extension of resubmission period, if the due date/resubmission date fall within the mentioned downtime period i.e. 09th July 2025 12:00 AM to 13th July 2025 11:59 PM.
(4) Stakeholders are advised to create user ID/upgrade existing V2 ID/Merge V2 ID in V3 system under "Business user" category and associate the DSC if not already done.
(5) Stakeholders are requested to check the SRNs that are currently pending with status "Pending for upload of Investor details", "Pending for Subsidiary Details" and upload the details by using services available on MCA portal ["Upload details of Security Holders/Depositors" and "Update Subsidiary Details"] by 17th June 2025, failing which SRN will be marked under "NTBR" status."
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