Ministry of Corporate Affairs

Ministry of Corporate Affairs
	Branch of Government of India
	Ministry of Corporate Affairs
Agency overview
Jurisdiction	Government of India
Headquarters	Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi, India
Agency executives	Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of Corporate Affairs; Harsh Malhotra, Minister of State for Corporate Affairs;
Website	www.mca.gov.in

The Ministry of Corporate Affairs is an Indian government ministry primarily concerned with administration of the Companies Act 2013, the Companies Act 1956, the Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008, and the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016.^[1]

It is responsible mainly for the regulation of Indian enterprises in the industrial and services sector. The ministry is mostly run by civil servants of the ICLS cadre. These officers are selected through the Civil Services Examination conducted by Union Public Service Commission. The highest post, Director General of Corporate Affairs (DGCoA), is fixed at Apex Scale for the ICLS. The current minister is Nirmala Sitaraman.

Administration

The ministry administers the following acts:

The Companies Act, 2013
The Companies Act, 1956
Insolvency And Bankruptcy Code, 2016
The Competition Act, 2002
The Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1969
The Chartered Accountants Act, 1949 [As amended by the Chartered Accountants (Amendment) Act, 2006]
The Company Secretaries Act, 1980 [As amended by The Company Secretaries (Amendment) Act, 2006][1]
The Cost and Works Accountants Act, 1959 [As Amended By The Cost And Works Accountants (Amendment) Act, 2006][2]
Companies (Donation to National) Fund Act, 1951
The Indian Partnership Act, 1932
Societies Registration Act, 1860
The Companies Amendment Act, 2006
The Limited liability Partnership Act, 2008

In August 2013, The Companies Act, 2013 was passed to regulate corporations by increasing responsibilities of corporate executives and is intended to avoid the accounting scandals such as the Satyam scandal which have plagued India.^[2] It replaces The Companies Act, 1956 which has proven outmoded in terms of handling 21st century problems.^[3]

The Ministry has constituted a Committee for framing of National Competition Policy (India) and related matters (formulate amendments in the Act) under the Chairmanship of Dhanendra Kumar, former chairman of Competition Commission of India.^[4]^[5]

Training academies

Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (Only for Union Civil Service Staff Training)

National apex bodies

Indian Institutes of Management

Statutory professional bodies

Statutory bodies

#	Name	Term of office		Duration	Political party (Alliance)	Prime Minister
1	R. K. Shanmukham Chetty	15 August 1947	1949	1 year, 139 days	Indian National Congress	Jawaharlal Nehru
2	John Mathai	1949	1950	1 year, 0 days
3	C. D. Deshmukh	29 May 1950	1957	6 years, 217 days
4	T. T. Krishnamachari	1957	13 February 1958	1 year, 43 days
5	Jawaharlal Nehru	13 February 1958	13 March 1958	28 days
6	Morarji Desai	13 March 1958	29 August 1963	5 years, 169 days
7	T. T. Krishnamachari	29 August 1963	1965	1 year, 125 days		Jawaharlal Nehru Lal Bahadur Shastri
8	Sachindra Chaudhuri	1965	13 March 1967	2 years, 71 days		Lal Bahadur Shastri Indira Gandhi
9	Indira Gandhi	1967	1971	4 years, 0 days		Indira Gandhi
10	Yashwantrao Chavan	1971	1975	4 years, 0 days
11	Chidambaram Subramaniam	1975	1977	2 years, 0 days
12	Haribhai M. Patel	24 March 1977	24 January 1979	1 year, 306 days	Janata Party	Morarji Desai
13	Charan Singh	24 January 1979	28 July 1979	185 days	Janata Party	Morarji Desai
14	Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna	28 July 1979	14 January 1980	170 days	Janata Party (Secular)	Charan Singh
15	R. Venkataraman	14 January 1980	15 January 1982	2 years, 1 day	Indian National Congress	Indira Gandhi
16	Pranab Mukherjee	15 January 1982	31 December 1984	2 years, 351 days		Indira Gandhi
17	V. P. Singh	31 December 1984	24 January 1987	2 years, 24 days		Rajiv Gandhi
18	Rajiv Gandhi	24 January 1987	25 July 1987	182 days
19	N. D. Tiwari	25 July 1987	25 June 1988	336 days
20	Shankarrao Chavan	25 June 1988	2 December 1989	1 year, 160 days
21	Madhu Dandavate	2 December 1989	10 November 1990	343 days	Janata Dal (National Front)	V. P. Singh
22	Yashwant Sinha	10 November 1990	21 June 1991	223 days	Samajwadi Janata Party (National Front)	Chandra Shekhar
23	Manmohan Singh	21 June 1991	16 May 1996	4 years, 330 days	Indian National Congress	P. V. Narasimha Rao
24	Jaswant Singh	16 May 1996	1 June 1996	16 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
25	P. Chidambaram	1 June 1996	21 April 1997	324 days	Tamil Maanila Congress (United Front)	H. D. Deve Gowda
26	I.K. Gujral	21 April 1997	22 May 2004	7 years, 31 days	Janata Dal (United Front)	I. K. Gujral
27	Prem Chand Gupta	22 May 2004	30 November 2008	4 years, 192 days	Indian National Congress (United Progressive Alliance)	Manmohan Singh
28	H. R. Bhardwaj	30 November 2008	24 January 2009	55 days
29	Veerappa Moily	26 June 2012	31 July 2012	35 days
30	Sachin Pilot	31 July 2012	26 May 2014	1 year, 299 days
31	Arun Jaitley	26 May 2014	30 May 2019	5 years, 4 days	Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance)	Narendra Modi
33	Nirmala Sitharaman	30 May 2019	Incumbent	5 years, 187 days

List of ministers of state

Minister of state	Political party	Term		Days
Bedabrata Barua	Indian National Congress	1969	1970	1 year
Nirmala Sitharaman	Bharatiya Janata Party	26 May 2014	9 November 2014	167 days
Arjun Ram Meghwal		5 July 2016	3 September 2017	1 year, 60 days
P. P. Chaudhary		3 September 2017	30 May 2019	1 year, 269 days
Anurag Thakur		30 May 2019	7 July 2021	5 years, 187 days
Rao Inderjit Singh		7 July 2021	Incumbent	3 years, 149 days