DIR–3 Form was previously used in order to obtain Director Identification Number. Since the new company incorporation rules are introduced, DIN is automatically issued under SPICe Form. DIR-3 eKYC is introduced by Ministry of Corporate Affairs to conduct KYC (know your customer) verification for Directors of all companies. Such filing is mandatory for Directors and should be filed using a Digital Signature Certificate.
Any director who is allotted a DIN by or on 31st of March and whose DIN is in approved status will now have to submit his KYC details within one month of every financial year i.e 30th April to the MCA. In addition, this procedure is mandatory for disqualified directors too.
Every director needs to to be provided with a unique personal mobile number and email
address while filing the eForm. These will be verified by a one-time password (OTP).
The second check would be the director has to use his own Digital Signature while filing this
DIR 3 efiling.
Last but not least, to ensure that complete and right information is provided will be that, the
Eform dir -3 KYC should be certified by a practicing Chartered Accountant or Company
Secretary or Cost and Management Accountant.
If in case, the director is unable to file DIR-3 form filing by the 30th April of every financial
year on MCA 21 Portal then the department will consider the DIN of this director as
deactivated along with the shown reason as Non-filing of DIR-3 KYC.
The director can re-activate his DIN in the future after paying a late fee of Rs. 5000 by filing
the missed out eform DIR-3 KYC. The fee would be payable on or after September 1, 2018.
Q What is the due date of DIR-3 KYC?
The filing of director KYC in DIR-3 (KYC) already begun on 1st april 2020 and the last of
filing the same is 30th September 2020. If not filed within its due date then it would attract an
additional fee or fine of Rs 5000/-
Q Whether Disqualified Directors required filing DIR-3 KYC?
Yes, Filing of DIR-3 KYC would be mandatory for Disqualified Directors also.
Q What happens if a director fails to file DIR-3 KYC?
MCA21 system will mark all approved DINs (allotted on or before 31st March 2020) against
which DIR-3 KYC form has not been filed as ‘Deactivated’ with reason as ‘Non-filing of
DIR-3 KYC.
Q Consequences of filing of DIR-3 KYC after the due date?
After the due date filing of DIR-3 KYC is over, the DIN is marked as deactivated. For such
inactive DIN directors KYC can be filed after payment of late filing fee of Rs. Rs. 5,000/-
only, without prejudice to any other action that may be taken.
Q Whether email ID / Mobile No. of any other person can be mentioned in DIR 3 KYC?
E-form DIR-3 KYC specifically mentioned Personal Mobile and Personal Email ID.
Therefore, one can opine that Directors have to use their own personal mobile No and email
ID. Otherwise it shall be default under Rule 12. In fact in the eform document it is mentioned
that the “Mobile No. and email ID shall be of the Director himself only.”