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CORPORATE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER (CIN)
At the time of registration of company under Indian Companies Act the concern Registrar of Companies issue a Corporate Identification Number which is an Identification number of the company. Corporate Identification Number has been designed to easiy identify companies belonging to the nature of business , State, public or private listed or unlisted or age of the company. It is 21 digit alpha numeric number as under:-
Ex:- U25609DL1987PLC004527
First Letter is L/U denotes whether the company is listed or not listed.
Second 5 digits represent the economic activity of the company
Next 2 letters represents the state in which the registered office of the Company is situated.
Next four digits indicate the year of incorporation.
Next three places indicate ownershop code like(PTC means Private Limited or PLC meand Public Limited)
And last six places in the CIN are the unique number assigned to every company in any particular activity in the particular state by the ROC.
At the time of incorporation ROC allot CIN to each company, in the Certificate of Incorporation you would get the CIN of each company.