New ROC Jurisdictions in India (2026): Complete List & Effective Dates

Effective 16 February 2026, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs restructured Registrar of Companies (RoC) jurisdictions across four of India's busiest states, creating six new RoC offices. This is the complete, sourced reference for exactly what changed, when, and which state or district now falls under which office — kept as a standalone resource rather than folded into any single city guide, since the change spans multiple states at once.

Quick answer

When did the new RoC jurisdictions take effect, and how many new offices were created?

16 February 2026. Six new RoC offices were created by splitting four previously combined, high-volume jurisdictions — Delhi-Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Mumbai/Maharashtra, and Kolkata/West Bengal — into smaller ones. States with their own single, statewide RoC office (Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana) were unaffected. No filing is required for existing companies purely because of the restructuring.

Timeline

The restructuring was notified under Notification No. S.O. 4849(E), dated 23 October 2025, issued under Section 396 of the Companies Act, 2013 (which empowers the central government to establish RoC offices and define their jurisdiction). The notification originally set an effective date of 1 January 2026; a further notification dated 30 December 2025 deferred that to 16 February 2026, which is when the new offices actually opened. Alongside the six new RoC offices, the Ministry also established three new Regional Directorates.

The complete list of new RoC offices

Four previously combined jurisdictions were split into these six new offices:

New RoC office	Headquarters	Jurisdiction
RoC NCT of Delhi-I	South Delhi	South Delhi districts
RoC NCT of Delhi-II	Central Delhi	Remaining Delhi districts
RoC Haryana	Chandigarh	Whole state of Haryana, including Gurugram — previously part of the combined Delhi office
RoC Uttar Pradesh-I	Kanpur	Eastern and central UP — Lucknow, Kanpur, Gorakhpur, Varanasi, Prayagraj and around 50 districts in total
RoC Uttar Pradesh-II	Noida	Western UP — Agra, Aligarh, Ghaziabad, Meerut, Mathura, Saharanpur, Gautam Buddha Nagar (Noida)
RoC Mumbai-I	Mumbai	Mumbai city
RoC Mumbai-II	Navi Mumbai	Wider Mumbai Metropolitan Region
RoC Nagpur	Nagpur	Nagpur region of Maharashtra
RoC Kolkata-I	Kolkata	District of Kolkata, and the state of Sikkim
RoC Kolkata-II	Kolkata	Rest of West Bengal, excluding Kolkata district

RoC Pune (covering Maharashtra outside the Mumbai region) was already a separate, pre-existing office and was not created by this restructuring — it is unaffected.

States and cities that did not change

Only the four jurisdictions above were split. States that already had their own single, statewide RoC office continue exactly as before — including Karnataka (RoC Bengaluru, covering the whole state, including Bangalore), Tamil Nadu (RoC Chennai, covering the whole state), and Telangana (RoC Hyderabad, covering Telangana only — a jurisdiction that has been separate from Andhra Pradesh's RoC Vijayawada since 2018, following the 2014 state bifurcation, and was not touched by this 2026 restructuring).

What this means in practice

For an existing company, this is an administrative reassignment, not a compliance event — your Corporate Identification Number (CIN) and existing registration remain valid, and no filing is required purely because of the restructuring. What has changed is which physical office now processes your filings and correspondence, based on your registered office address. Before your next filing, it is worth confirming your company's current RoC in the MCA21 portal's company master data, since expecting correspondence from the old office can cause confusion or delay.

For a new company being incorporated after 16 February 2026, this simply determines which RoC your SPICe+ filing routes to — see our guides to company registration in Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal for how this plays out for each of those specific states and cities.

FAQs: the 2026 RoC jurisdiction restructuring

When did the new RoC jurisdictions take effect? 16 February 2026. The restructuring was originally notified under Notification No. S.O. 4849(E), dated 23 October 2025, with an initial effective date of 1 January 2026 — a further notification dated 30 December 2025 deferred that to 16 February 2026.

Do I need to file anything because my company’s RoC changed? No routine action is required for existing companies. This is an administrative reassignment of which RoC office handles your filings going forward, based on your registered office address — your CIN and existing registration remain valid. It is worth confirming your company’s RoC on the MCA portal’s company master data before your next filing, so you know which office to expect correspondence from.

How many new RoC offices were created, and why? Six new RoC offices were created by splitting four previously combined, high-volume jurisdictions (Delhi-Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Mumbai/Maharashtra, and Kolkata/West Bengal) into smaller, more manageable ones, alongside three new Regional Directorates. The stated goal is faster processing and less administrative overload at each office.

Did every state’s RoC jurisdiction change? No. Only the four jurisdictions listed above were split. States with their own single, statewide RoC office before the restructuring — including Karnataka (RoC Bengaluru), Tamil Nadu (RoC Chennai) and Telangana (RoC Hyderabad) — are unaffected and continue exactly as before.

Where can I verify which RoC covers my company now? The Ministry of Corporate Affairs’ MCA21 portal lets you look up a company’s current RoC under company master data by CIN or name, which reflects the post-restructuring assignment.

Sources

Press Information Bureau — MCA to set up 3 new Regional Directorates and 6 new Registrars of Companies
Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Notification No. S.O. 4849(E), dated 23 October 2025, issued under Section 396 of the Companies Act, 2013