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..... Unclaimed Investment Funds
News and Press Release
Dated:- 9-3-2016

The details of assessment made by the Government regarding quantum of unclaimed investment funds at the end of the financial year 2015-16 can be assessed only after filing of financial statements ending 31.03.2016 by companies with the Registrar of Companies (RoC). In accordance with the provisions of section 137 of t .....

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..... he Companies Act, 2013, such financial statement as at 31.3.2016 is required to be filed by company duly adopted at their Annual General Meeting (AGM), with RoC within thirty days of the holding the AGM. Such AGMs have to be held latest by 30th September, 2016 and such financial statements have to be filed by 30th October, 2016. Therefore, this information is not available with the Ministry. As p .....

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..... er provisions of Section 205A(5) of the Companies Act, 1956, the unpaid dividend accounts of the companies which remain unclaimed/unpaid for a period of 7 years are mandatorily required to be transferred to the Investor Education and Protection Fund (IEPF). Failure to do so will attract penalties as provided in Section 205A(8) of the Companies Act, 1956. The corresponding provision of Section 124 .....

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..... (7) of the Companies Act, 2013 which lays down the penal provisions for non-compliance of transfer of unpaid/unclaimed dividend on expiry of 7 years to IEPF, is yet to be notified. Unclaimed and unpaid amount of ₹ 1273.66 Crore (approx.) has been transferred to IEPF after the expiry of the mandatory period of seven years, for the period from 2001-02 to 2015-16 (upto 26.02.2016). This was s .....

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..... tated by Shri Arun Jaitley, Minister of Corporate Affairs in written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha.
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