MCA SPICe+ Part A name-approval bottleneck this May: why approvals are taking 8-12 days

The Central Registration Centre at the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs has accumulated a backlog of name approval applications through the FY-end filing surge in April 2026. Median turnaround on SPICe+ Part A submissions has slipped to 8-12 working days against the published 2-3 day service level.

The four most common rejection reasons we are seeing this month are, in order of frequency: similarity to an existing company or LLP name under Rule 8(2); use of restricted words without the appropriate No-Objection Certificate; generic phrases the Registrar deems undesirable under Section 4(2); and sound-alike collision with a trademark registered on the IP India database.

KAMRIT Corporate Compliance desk can run a pre-filing name diagnostic against the MCA and IP India databases and structure the Part A submission to clear on the first pass.