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Recent Upgradation of New MCA Website: MCA21

poonamgandhi

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Published on: Jul 29, 2025

Recent upgradation of the MCA website

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.

It is important to understand the newly introduced improvisation and changes in the MCA website. The present article briefly explains the first phase of the MCA website.

Features up-gradation of MCA website-

Following features are added to the MCA website as part of the first phase of the up-gradation of the MCA website-

  • Restoration of the following web pages-
    • Home,
    • Data & Reports,
    • About Us,
    • Contact Us,
    • News and Updates, and
    • Mediation and conciliation.
  • Introduction of the following new services/ modules-
    • E-Consultation, and
    • E-Book.

Access to the primary services in the new MCA website-

Following six primary services are now accessible from the banners provided on the face of the MCA website-

  1. Register your company,
  2. 1 (Limited Liability Partnership),
  3. Company forms download,
  4. LLP forms download,
  5. Close your company,
  6. Close your LLP.

Essential services access in the new MCA website-

A list of the following essential services can be directly accessed from the home page-

  • E-Books,
  • Name Reservation (Company),
  • Name Reservation (LLP),
  • DIR-3 KYC,
  • View Public Documents,
  • View Company/ LLP Master Data,
  • Track Transaction Status,
  • Associate DSC,
  • Update DSC,
  • Independent Director/ Databank Registration,
  • Enquire Fee, and
  • E-Auction.

E-Books and use thereof-

Basically, the E-Books module is launched by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs to-

  • Simplify the compliance procedure; and
  • Provide complete information and data about the applicable act; rules and regulations.

Both registered as well as non-registered users can access the E-Books by following the below steps- STEP 1 – Visit site

/content/mca/global/en/home.html, 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.

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-

  • Proposed amendments/ draft legislation will be posted for public consultation,
  • Users are allowed to submit their comments/ suggestions on such proposed amendments/ draft legislations.

Following are the two ways through which the E-Consultation module can be accessed-

  1. Registered user – such a person can access the module by login into the MCA website.
  2. Guest user – the non-registered person can even access the module available on the home page of the website.

Important points regarding the posting of comments/ suggestions-

  • 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.
  • 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-
Type of user Manner to modify the comments
Registered user
  1. Login to the MCA website.
  2. Visit the E-Consultation page.
  3.  Modify the comments and submit the same.
Guest user
  1. Enter the new comment.
  2. Provide the same PAN/ Aadhar/ CIN/ FCRN/ LLPIN/ FLLPIN which was provided while entering an earlier comment.
  3. On entering the same number, a confirmation will appear asking to overwrite the previous comment.
  4. On confirming overwriting, the previous comment will be over-written with the new comment.

Some of the notable points-

  1. In spite of the improvisation of the MCA website, the following basic process/ features will remain unchanged-
    1. Login process of MCA website,
    2. The registration process for the new users,
    3. E-filing process, and
    4. Payment process,
  2. All the other modules (other than e-book and e-consultation) will be gradually migrated to MCA version 3 (from MCA version 2) in October 2021.
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