National Company Law Tribunal & NCLATJurisdiction of NCLT Benches

Jurisdiction of NCLT Benches 

The jurisdiction of newly constituted 11 benches of National Compnay Law Tribunal(NCLT) will be as below :

1. NCLT, New Delhi Bench – State of Haryana, Rajasthan and Union Territory of Delhi;

and 

 NCLT, Principal Bench , New Delhi. 

It must be noted that  New Delhi will have two benches of NCLT.

Exclusive Monetary Jurisdiction has been created by Notification  dated 29th June 2016 ,under which all issues of companies with paid up capital of more than Rs 50 Lakhs will be listed before NCLT, New Delhi Bench and/or NCLT, Principal Bench,New Delhi.

The Principal Bench will handle those issues which shall be ordered to be listed by the Honourable President of NCLT.

2. NCLT, Ahmedabad Bench – State of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli;

3. NCLT, Allahabad Bench –  State of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand;

4. NCLT, Bengaluru Bench –  State of Karnataka;

5. NCLT, Chandigarh Bench – State of Himachal Prades, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab and Union Territory of Chandigarh;

6. NCLT, Chennai Bench – State of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Union territory of Lakshadweep and Union territory of Puducherry;

7. NCLT, Guwahati Bench – State of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim, and Tripura

8. NCLT, Hyderabad Bench –  State of Andhra Pradesh and Telengana;

9. NCLT, Kolkata Bench – State of Bihar, Jharhand, Odisha, West Bengal, and Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands;

10.NCLT, Mumbai Bench – State of Chhatisgarh, Goa and Maharastra.

However,our law firm anticipates that  either more benches will open in New Delhi or monetary limit of paid up capital  from the existing cap of  Rs 50 lakhs will be enhaned to fall under the jurisdiction of NCLT, New Delhi and /or NCLT, Principal Bench.