MCA Portal Glitches Continue to Disrupt Filings: ICSI urges Ministry to Extend Deadline
Professionals are forced to restart the entire filing procedure, which results in unnecessary delays, confusion, and repetitive effort, said the ICSI
The frequent timeouts and slowdowns in the MCA portal is still disrupting the filings. The Institute of Company Secretaries of India ( ICSI ) and concerned professionals have sought a deadline extension from the Ministry of Corporate Affairs to next year.
The ICSI, listing the technical issues in the portal, requested the ministry to fix the issues as soon as possible. Also, it requested to extend the due date till 31st March 2026.
“The MCA portal continues to experience repeated slowdowns, timeouts, and performance degradation, particularly during peak filing hours between 3:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m” said the institute.
Also, with the deadline nearing, MCA websites were found to be non-functional occasionally. The ICSI says that even the home page fails to load, rendering filings impossible. Where access is available, filings are disrupted by frequent system errors, timeouts, and crashes, resulting in failed or incomplete submissions.
Furthermore, even for properly submitted forms that are awaiting DSC affixation, SRNs are being revoked. Professionals are forced to restart the entire filing procedure, which results in unnecessary delays, confusion, and repetitive effort.
Along with the filings, the institute said that the additional requirements in the V3 portal including mandatory Excel template uploads and other changes has increased the preparation time and the complexity. The ICSI authorities said that even small changes requires saving and validating all linked forms afresh which requires AOC-4 to be processed end-to-end each time.
With regards to form AOC-4, ICSI raised multiple issues including difficulty in generating the PDF version of forms after submission, frequent validation errors during form processing, SRN not appearing or being retrievable after form submission, iIncorrect company forms being downloaded, non-acceptance of SRN for Form ADT-1 filed earlier on the V2 portal, non-acceptance of SRN for Form GNL-I filed for AGM extension and inability to provide reasons for changes in previous year figures when updating the form.
Considering all these issues, the Company Secretaries Institute has sought a deadline extension up to 31st March 2026.
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