Company & LLP Registration Trends in India — September 2020
In short
September 2020: 20,668 Company and LLP registrations in India, with entity-wise shares and historical September comparison from 2016 onward.
Financial-year context: September 2020 falls in FY 2020–21. Monthly counts remain observations for the named month, not full-year totals. January–March 2016 is excluded from the website comparison series.
September 2020 recorded 20,668 Company and LLP registrations in India. This page places the month in context by comparing September 2020 with the earlier available September data from 2016 onward.
Private Companies: 15,353 (74.3%) • OPC: 945 (4.6%) • LLP: 4,016 (19.4%)
Total registrations: 20,668
September Registration Trend — 2016 to 2020
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 | — |
| 2017–18 Sep 2017 |
8,189 | 509 | 151 | 9 | 2,675 | 11,533 | (+11.9%) |
| 2018–19 Sep 2018 |
12,453 | 667 | 276 | 9 | 1,551 | 14,956 | (+29.7%) |
| 2019–20 Sep 2019 |
8,279 | 620 | 272 | 14 | 2,627 | 11,812 | (-21.0%) |
| 2020–21 Sep 2020 |
15,353 | 945 | 343 | 11 | 4,016 | 20,668 | (+75.0%) |
What the September 2020 data shows
Private Companies formed (74.3%) of all September 2020 registrations, while LLPs accounted for (19.4%). OPCs contributed (4.6%). Public and Foreign Companies together represented a relatively small share of the month's total.
Compared with September 2016, total registrations in September 2020 were 100.6% higher. This long-term view helps show how the scale and structure of registrations changed over time.
Top 5 Business Activities in September 2020: Private Limited, LLP and OPC
These rankings are calculated from the declared business-activity descriptions in the MCA incorporation records for September 2020. Counts refer to newly incorporated entities, not turnover, employment or later business performance. Percentages are calculated separately within each legal structure.
Private Limited Companies — Top 5 of 15,353
| Declared business activity | Registrations (share) |
|---|---|
| Business Services | 4,259 (27.74%) |
| Trading | 1,972 (12.84%) |
| Community, personal & Social Services | 1,924 (12.53%) |
| Agriculture and Allied Activities | 1,173 (7.64%) |
| Manufacturing (Metals & Chemicals, and products thereof) | 1,103 (7.18%) |
Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs) — Top 5 of 4,016
| Declared business activity | Registrations (share) |
|---|---|
| Business Services | 1,087 (27.07%) |
| Trading | 958 (23.85%) |
| Community, personal & Social Services | 390 (9.71%) |
| Construction | 291 (7.25%) |
| Manufacturing (Metals & Chemicals, and products thereof) | 237 (5.90%) |
One Person Companies (OPCs) — Top 5 of 945
| Declared business activity | Registrations (share) |
|---|---|
| Business Services | 353 (37.35%) |
| Trading | 163 (17.25%) |
| Community, personal & Social Services | 100 (10.58%) |
| Manufacturing (Food stuffs) | 57 (6.03%) |
| Manufacturing (Metals & Chemicals, and products thereof) | 47 (4.97%) |
What stands out: Business Services leads across all three structures, while Trading features prominently in LLPs and OPCs.
Source and method: MCA monthly incorporation Excel records (eir_September2020.xlsx), grouped by entity classification and the reported ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION / Activity Description field. Categories are reproduced as reported, so labels should not be interpreted as fine-grained industry classifications.
Explore the Registration Trend research hub or compare September registrations across years.
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.
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