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Company & LLP Registration Trends in India — September 2016

In short

September 2016: 10,303 Company and LLP registrations in India, with entity-wise shares and historical September comparison from 2016 onward.

September 2016 — Key Observations

September 2016 recorded 10,303 registrations. It is the first September in this series and the baseline for every later September comparison. It is the lowest September in the 2016–2026 series. Private Limited made up (71.7%) of the month, LLPs (23.0%) and OPCs (3.9%). Compared with the previous month, August 2016 (11,072), registrations were down (6.9%).

Financial-year context: September 2016 falls in FY 2016–17. Monthly counts remain observations for the named month, not full-year totals. January–March 2016 falls in FY 2015-16, so it is not counted in Financial Year totals, but it is included in month-to-month comparisons.

September 2016 recorded 10,303 Company and LLP registrations in India. This page places the month in context by comparing September 2016 with the earlier available September data from 2016 onward.

September 2016 at a glance
Private Companies: 7,391 (71.7%)  •  OPC: 397 (3.9%)  •  LLP: 2,367 (23.0%)
Total registrations: 10,303

September Registration Trend — 2016 to 2016

Each row below represents the same calendar month — September — so the comparison is not distorted by normal differences between months.

Financial year Private OPC Public Foreign LLP Total YoY
2016–17
Sep 2016
7,391 397 135 13 2,367 10,303 —

What the September 2016 data shows

Private Companies formed (71.7%) of all September 2016 registrations, while LLPs accounted for (23.0%). OPCs contributed (3.9%). Public and Foreign Companies together represented a relatively small share of the month's total.

September 2016 is the starting point of this historical series, so no earlier September is available for comparison in this dataset.

How to read this data

Registration numbers measure the creation of legal entities. They do not indicate whether those entities later became profitable, raised funding, employed people or remained active. The purpose of this series is to study incorporation activity and changes in the preferred legal structures over time.

Source: MCA monthly incorporation data compiled in the CompanysRegistration.com Registration Trend dataset. Missing MCA source periods, where applicable, are disclosed and are not estimated.

Top 5 Business Activities — September 2016

These are the five leading original MCA economic-activity descriptions recorded among new entities in this specific month, ranked separately by legal structure. Each percentage is the share of registrations in the corresponding structure, not all entities combined. MCA's older broad activity categories are not directly equivalent to newer NIC-2008 two-digit divisions.

Private Limited Companies

# MCA business activity Registrations
(share)
1 Business Services 4,152
(56.18%)
2 Trading 639
(8.65%)
3 Construction 458
(6.20%)
4 Real Estate and Renting 334
(4.52%)
5 Community, personal & Social Services 313
(4.23%)

Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs)

# MCA business activity Registrations
(share)
1 Business Services 1,025
(43.30%)
2 Trading 305
(12.89%)
3 Community, personal & Social Services 235
(9.93%)
4 Construction 194
(8.20%)
5 Real Estate and Renting 185
(7.82%)

One Person Companies (OPCs)

# MCA business activity Registrations
(share)
1 Business Services 286
(72.04%)
2 Trading 32
(8.06%)
3 Community, personal & Social Services 13
(3.27%)
4 Construction 12
(3.02%)
5 Real Estate and Renting 12
(3.02%)

Activity methodology: Counts are calculated from the month-specific original MCA incorporation workbook, after separating registered Private Limited Companies, LLPs and OPCs and checking their totals against the verified monthly master. The names are the source workbook's broad categories. MCA monthly incorporation data.

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About the author

CS. Bhavik Hariyani

Working with Startups on Corporate Law and Compliance since 2009.

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CS. Bhavik Hariyani is a Company Secretary who previously practised as a CS. His focus here is education and awareness for First-Time Founders, drawing on experience with Company Registration and Corporate Compliance.

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