The Hindu Business Line : MCA's e-Governance facility set for launch

THE first of the 25 mission-mode projects identified by the Ministry of Company Affairs is on the verge of take-off. `MCA 21,' an e-Governance initiative to enable companies to file documents online, will be launched on January 15. The Office of the Registrar of Companies Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore is taking a lead among the 20 RoCs in the country.

The facility is expected to be introduced at the RoC, Jaipur by end-January.

The Ministry plans to introduce it at all the 20 RoC offices and interlink the offices by next April. The work has commenced in full swing with the digitisation of over six crore pages. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has been identified as the technology partner for this project.

The MCA Director, Mr Pawan Kumar, said scanning pages was not easy as some were at least 100 years old. He invited users to log on to the portal (after it went live) for updating the records and making the necessary corrections within two months of the launch of this facility.

However, to gain access to the records, the digitisation of the directors' signature would be mandatory. The users could get the Digital Signature Certificate from any one of the seven identified agencies, he added.

Mr Kush Sharma, Business Development Management, Government Industry Focus Group, TCS, told Business Line that the Government has estimated the project cost at Rs 340 crore.

About 5 lakh active companies across the country, including 10,000 companies in Coimbatore, have been digitised.

TCS has set up the data centre at New Delhi and a Disaster Recovery Site in Chennai. "TCS has also proposed to have 57 front offices across the country during the transition phase, for the RoC office would now become a back office, a monitoring body," he said. "It will be qualitative monitoring of legal compliances and this information system will facilitate the change."

Mr Sharma said the Ministry has firmed up a plan that permits the inactive companies to opt for the `simplified exit scheme.' To manage the peak (filing) season rush, four additional temporary front offices have been proposed in the four metros.

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