Chartered Accountant · ICAI M.No. 153926 · FRN 136869W
30 September
Applies to every DIN allotted on or before 31 March of that year.
Miss = deactivation + ₹5,000
A deactivated DIN can’t be used until KYC is filed with the ₹5,000 fee.
Plan it with the September cluster
The 30 September date sits in the same crowded window as the AGM and several other annual items, which is partly why it gets missed. Anyone allotted a DIN on or before 31 March of the year must complete it for that year — even a director of a dormant or non-trading company, and even someone holding a DIN but not currently on any board. There’s no part-payment or proportionate relief: miss the date by a day and the DIN is deactivated, with a flat ₹5,000 to reactivate by filing the pending KYC. Because a deactivated DIN freezes that person’s ability to sign any company’s filings, one director’s lapse can hold up an unrelated company’s AOC-4 or MGT-7. The simple safeguard is to complete the web-based KYC early — it takes minutes once the registered mobile and email are reachable — rather than leaving it to the end-September rush when portal load is heaviest. For a company with several directors, doing all of them in one sitting avoids overlooking one.