The companies are required to file their Balance Sheet and Annual Return to ROC within 30 and 60 days respectively from the date of placing it in the Annual General Meeting. The companies that follow the standard financial year ending up-to March each year are required to convene the AGM by September of that year. However, most of the companies do not utilize the 30 and 60 days allowed for filing their documents but instead, keep waiting up to last date to file their Balance Sheet and Annual Return. The avoidable delay in filing thus creates an artificial rush and results in heavy filing on the last dates of October and November each year. Moreover, these documents being of large size take a long time to upload. This makes it difficult for others to file their documents on-line.
To avoid last minute rush and system congestion in MCA21 due to heavy filing in last 10 days of the months of October and November 2011, it is requested that filing of Balance Sheet and Annual Return may preferably be done in the following order:

Kindly plan your filing accordingly.