Right to Information

PURSUANT TO SECTION 4 (1) (B) OF THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT, 2005, THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION WITH REGARD TO THE OFFICE OF OFFICIAL LIQUIDATOR IS HEREBY PUBLISHED: -

Information as required under section 4(1) (b) of the Right  to Information Act,2005

1(A) The  particulars of the organization1(A) The particulars of the organization: The Official Liquidator, Delhi is appointed by the Central Government under section 448 of the Companies Act, 1956 and is functionally attached to the Hon’ble High Court of Delhi. The office of the Official Liquidator, Delhi is under the administrative charge of the Regional Director, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Northern Region, Delhi. The Regional Director (NR), 2nd Floor ,Paryavaran Bhawan, CGO Complex Lodi Road, New Delhi-110003 who supervises the functioning of the office of the Official Liquidator on behalf of the Central Government. The Official Liquidator is entrusted with the duty of conducting the affairs of the companies under liquidation in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Act, 1956 read with Companies (Court) Rules, 1956 and is further subject to the orders of the Hon’ble High Court issued from time to time on the applications filed by or against the Official Liquidator and on the report filed by the Official Liquidator. The office of the Official Liquidator is situated at 8th Floor, Lok Nayak Bhawan, Khan Market, New Delhi-110003

1(B) Functions and duties:

The Official Liquidator is attached to the Delhi High Court, Delhi and discharges his functions and exercise the powers as envisaged under the provisions of Section 457 of the Companies Act subject to the orders of the Hon’ble High Court , from time to time.

The powers/functions as per Section 457 are :- (1) (a) to institute or defend any suit, prosecution, or other legal proceedings, civil or criminal, in the name and on behalf of the company;

(b) To carry on the business of the company so far as may be necessary for the beneficial winding up of the company;

(c) to sell the immovable and movable property and actionable claims of the company by public auction or private contract, with power to transfer the whole thereof to any person, body corporate, or to sell the same in parcels;

(d) to raise on the security of the assets of the company any money requisite;

(e) to do all such other things as may be necessary for winding up the affairs of the company and distributing its assets;

(2) (i) to do all acts and to execute, in the name and on behalf of the company, all deeds, receipts, and other documents, and for that purpose to use, when necessary, the company’s seal;

(ii) to inspect the records and returns of the company on the files of the Registrar without payment of any fee;

(iii) to prove, rank and claim in the insolvency of any contributory for any balance against his estate, and to receive dividends in the insolvency, in respect of that balance, as separate debt due from the insolvent, and ratably with the separate creditors;

(iv) to take out, in his official name, letters of administration to any deceased contributory, and to do in his official name any other act necessary for obtaining payment of any money due from a contributory or his estate which cannot be conveniently done in the name of the company, and in all such cases, the money due shall, for the purpose of enabling the liquidator to take out the letters of administration or recover the money, be deemed to be due to the liquidator himself
(v) to appoint an agent to do any business which the liquidator is unable to do himself.

2. Powers and duties of  the Officers and employees:

The Official Liquidator (OL) is assisted by Deputy Official Liquidator (DOL) and Assistant Official Liquidator (AOL). The Official Liquidator also directly looks after the work of a liquidation section and amalgamation section, apart from appearing before the Hon’ble Company Judge. The brief distribution of duties entrusted to the Officers and section heads is as under:

 

OFFICE OF THE OFFICIAL LIQUIDATOR

HIGH COURT, DELHI.

 

ALLOCATION OF WORK

S.No.	Name of the Officer	Name of the  Dealing Assistant	Section
1	Shri AK Mahapatra, Official Liquidator Direct Tel. 24693315, Telephone No. 24693392-93-94, Email : ol.delh@mca.gov.in	1.     Sh. Nandan Bisht, Steno Gr-II 2.     Sh. Tribhuvan Sharma , Peon 3.     Sh. Ved Prakash, Peon	PA, Accounts, TC-I, TC-II, TC-III, TC-IV, TC-V, Esstt, NBFC
2.	Sh. Vineet Rai, Deputy Official Liquidator, Intercom  No. 215	1.   Sh. Rahul Kumar, Steno 2.   Sh.  Sh. Mukesh Kumar , Poen	TC-I, TC-IV, TC-V , DDO, Esstt, NBFC

 

Section wise work allotted:-

 

S. No.	Name of Section	Section Head	DA
1.	TC-I	Mr Arvind Bhartiya, JTA	1.   Sh. Ramesh Chandra, LA 2.   Sh. Manjeet Singhl, LA 3.   Sh.Harish Takkar, LA 4.   Ms. Anjali Goyal, CCS 5.   Ms. Uma Sharma,CCS 6.   Madan Singth Bisht
2.	TC-II	Mr Arvind Bhartiya, JTA	1.  Sh.Dinesh Arora, LA 2.  Ms. Anita Setia, LA 3.  Seema Bansal, LA 4.  Ms. Anandi Devi, MTS 5.  Ms. Mamta Tiwari,CCS 6.  Sh. Subhbratoo Mukherjee, PS
3.	TC-III	Sh. D. S. Meena, STA	1.    Sh. Dinesh Khurana, LA 2.    Sh. Vijay Tiwari, LA 3.    Sh. Rajesh Kumar, LA 4.    Ms. Anju Dahiya, LA 5.    Sh. Wasim, LA 6.    Sh. Saket Kumar, CCS 7.    Ms. Snigdha, CCS        8.    Ms.Gunjan Chugh,CCS 9.    Sh. Arun Kumar, Peon
4.	T-IV	Sh. D. S. Meena, STA	1.    Sh. Pradeep Bhardwaj, LA 2.    Sh. Harish Joshi, LA 3.    Sh. Dharmendra Shukla,LA 4.    Ms. Seema Dogra,LA 5.    Ms. Maya Gupta, LA  6.    Ms. Sakshi Aggarwal, CCS 7.    Ms. Sonali Sharma, CCS 8.    Sh. Mohan Bisht, Peon
5.	TC-V	Sh. D. S. Meena, STA	1.    Sh. R. K. Vashist, LA 2.    Sh. Gulab Singh, LA 3.    Sh. B. B. Swami, LA 4.    MS. Patibha Sharma, LA 5.    Ms. Poonam,CCS 6.    Ms. Babita Choudhry, CCS 7.    Sh. Mohan Singh Bisht, Peon
6.	Accounts	Sh. Sushil Sahai, JTA	1.    Sh.Pawan Kumar Garg, UDC 2.    Ms. Neeru Sharma, LA 3.    Ms. Kusum Lata, LA 4.    Ms. Simmi Ahuja, LA 5.    Ms. Lakshmi Bisht, A 6.    Sh. Amit Kumar, Accountant 7.    Sh. Amit Kumar Choudhry, Accountant(S.R. accounting 8.    Sh. Sandeep Giri, Accountant 9.    Sh. Ram Singh,Peon
6.	NBFC	Sh. Mohan Singh Kataria, UDC	1.    Sh. Rishi Kumar, CCS 2.    Sh. Sanjay Rai. LA 3.    Ms. Sonu Saigal, LA 4.    Sh.Arun Kumar, Peon
7	Esstt.	Sh. D. S. Meena, STA	1.    Ms. Manisha Umrao, UDC 2.    Ms. Manju Kaushik, LA 3.    Ms. Nisha Jeena DEO 4.    Sh. Anil Aggarwal, LA 5.    Ms. Anjana  Devi, Peon 6.    Sh. Madan Singh, Process server 7.    Sh. Manoj Kumar, Peon 8.    Sh. Jaman, Driver 9. Sh. Surjeet Singh, Peon cum Driver  10. Sh Bhoodutt Sharma, Record Sorter  11. Sh. Neeraj Gupta, Asstt. Security Superviser
8.	Dispatch /Diary Section	Sh. D.S. Meena , STA	1.    Ms. Rajni Koopar, LA 2.    Sh. Brham Prakash, MTS 3.    Sh. Amit Sharma, MTS 4.    Sh. Mahesh Kanojia
9.	Court Duty		1.      Sh. Dharmendra Shukla, LA 2.      Sh. Vijay Tiwari, LA 3.      Sh. Madan Singh Bisht, Peon 4.      Sh. Arvind Rai,Peon
10.	Record room		1.    Sh. Rajendra Tiwari, Asstt. Record  Keeper 2.    Sh. Yadvinder Sharma, Peon

 

3.  Procedure followed in respect  of decision making process:

    All the works, files or reports are initiated by the LDC or UDC in the case of Government staff and Junior/Senior Assistant in the case of Company Paid Staff (CPS) and Consultant Company Secretary (CCS) as the case may be are put up to the Section Head who process the same and send to the DOL as the DOL process the same and send to the OL with his views/recommendations and the OL accords his final approval or otherwise. However, the OL delegates from time to time, by issue of Office Orders, the specified matters which are finally disposed off at DOL level as the case may be. Thus, each person/staff who takes the above decision making process is responsible and accountable to the extent of his/her contribution to a particular case/matter.

4. Norms for discharge of functions:

The office Official Liquidator complies with the statutory provisions of the Companies Act, 1956 and Companies (Court) Rules, 1959 and/or the orders of the Hon’ble High Court of Bombay in exercise of its powers conferred under the Companies Act and in discharge of its duties.

5.  Acts, Rules, regulations, instructions, manuals and records used by the employees for discharge of their functions:

 

The Companies Act, 1956

The Companies (Court) Rules, 1959

The Securitization and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 (SARFAESI)

DRT Act, DRT and DRAT Rules and regulations.

Industrial Disputes Act, 1947.

Payment of Bonus Act, 1965 and Payment of Bonus Rules, 1975.

Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923

General Financial  Rules framed by the Central Government

Fundamental Rules and Supplementary Rules Part  I –V of the Central Government

Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972

CCS (Conduct) Rules, 1955

CCS (Classification Control and Appeal) Rules, 1964

Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Field Offices Recruitment Rules, 2011 and Administrative circulars/ Orders of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs

 

6.  Categories of documents:

The documents held by the office are those received from the various companies under liquidation, claimants, litigants, governments, the Official Liquidator’s Reports submitted to the Hon’ble High Court from time to time and other Courts and orders passed by the Hon’ble High Court, valuation reports obtained from approved valuers in respect of the assets of various

companies (in Liquidation).

7.  The arrangements that exist for the consultation with or representation by the members of the public in relation to the formulation of policy or implementation thereof.

  ( Not applicable, since the liquidation proceedings of the Companies under liquidation are undertaken as per the orders of the Hon’ble High Court from time to time.)

8.  Boards, Councils, Committees and other bodies consisting of two or more persons constituted by it.  Additionally, information as to whether the meetings of these are open to the public, or minutes of meetings are accessible to the public.

The Office of Official Liquidator, in discharge its functions, holds meetings from time to time with secured/unsecured creditors, workmen, financial institutions, banks, other Government institutions such as DRT, etc., for carrying forward liquidation proceedings in respect of companies in liquidation and the minutes of these meetings/ liquidation proceedings in respect of specific companies can be obtained upon making application to the CPIO of the office of the Official Liquidator, Mumbai.  The purchase functions of the office of the Official Liquidator are  being discharged by a purchase committee.

9.  Directory of Officers and employees:

 

S. No.	Name of the Officer
1	Shri AK Mahapatra , Official Liquidator Direct Tel. 24693315, Fax No: 011-24693314, Telephone No. 24693392-93-94, Email : ol.delhi@mca.gov.in
2.	Sh. Vineet Rai, Deputy Official Liquidator, , Intercom No. 215

 

10.  Monthly remuneration received by officers and employees:

May be referred to the list attached as per Annexure – “B”. 

11.   Budget allocation and expenditure:

The position of budget allocation vis a vis actual expenditure for the financial years 2019-20,  and  2020-21 is as under: (Rupees in lakhs)

 

 

Expenditure Head	Budget Allocation for the financial year		Actual expenditure for the financial year
	2019-20	2020-21	2019-20	2020-21
Salary	11682000	12500000	11673286	11615087
DTE	62000	200000	61413	0
OE	2800000	2283000	2798009	1438094
Medical	223000	600000	177346	584413
OAE	20000	20000	16058	0
OTA	0	0	0	0
SAP	100000	0	20000	0
Total	3205000	15603000	3072826	13637594

 

12.       The manner of execution of subsidy program including the amount allocated and the details and beneficiaries of such program.

            Not applicable.        

13.       Particulars of recipient of concession permits or authorization granted: 

            Not applicable.

14.       Details of the information available to or held by it reduced in an electronic form:

            The information in respect of companies under liquidation, dissolved under compulsory winding up and under voluntary winding up, public notices for sale, for invitation of claims and for declaration of dividend to creditors, settlement of List of Creditors,  etc. are placed in the

website of this office. 

15.       Particulars of Central Public Information Officer, Assistant Central Public Information Officer and First Appellate Authority.

 

Central Public Information Officer (CPIO)	Shri Vineet Rai, Deputy Official Liquidator, Delhi High Court, 8th Floor, Lok Nayak Bhawan, Khan Market, New Delhi-110003. Intercom No. 215
Assistant Central Public Information Officer (ACPIO)	Sh. D. S. Meena, STA, Delhi High Court, 8th Floor, Lok Nayak Bhawan, Khan Market, New Delhi-110003.
First Appellate Authority	Shri AK Mahapatra, Official Liquidator Direct Tel. 24693315, Telephone No. 24693392-93-94, Email : ol.delh@mca.gov.in

     

OFFICERS:

Sr  No.	Name of the Officer	Official and Designation	Basic Pay	Gross Pay
1	Shri  AK Mahapatra	Official Liquidator	142700	175383
2	Shri  Vineet Rai,	Dy. Official Liquidator	74000	95004

 

STAFF MEMBERS:

 

Sr  No.	Name of the Officer	Official and Designation	Basic Pay	Gross Pay
1	Sh. D. S. Meena	Sr. Technical Assistant	55200	82044
2	Sh. Sushil Sahai	Junior Technical Assistant	49000	61542
3	Sh. Arvind Bhartiya,	Junior Technical Assistant	47600	59904
4	Sh. Nandan Bisht	Stenographer Gr. ll	52000	77532
5	Ms. Manisha Umrao	Upper  Division Clerk	39200	59484
6	Sh. Pawan Kumar Garg	Upper  Division Clerk	39200	59484
7	Sh. Mohan Singh Kataria	Upper Division Clerk	35300	53985
8	Sh. Amit Sharma	MTS	18500	28625
9	Ms. Anandi Devi	MTS	23500	34715
10	Breham Prakash	MTS	32000	49332

 

COMPANY PAID STAFF:

 

Sr  No.	Name of the Officer	Official and Designation	Basic Pay	Gross Pay
1	Ms. Neeru Sharma	Liqn. Asstt.	46200	72354
2	Ms. Anita Setia	Liqn. Asstt.	46200	72354
3	Sh. R.K. Vashist	Liqn. Asstt.	46200	72354
4	Sh. B.B Swami	Liqn. Asstt.	46200	72354
5	Ms. Maya Gupta	Liqn. Asstt.	37600	60228
6	Ms. Vijay Tiwari	Liqn. Asstt.	37600	60228
7	Ms. Harish Joshi	Liqn. Asstt.	36500	58677
8	Ms. Seema Dogra	Liqn. Asstt.	36500	58677
9	Ms. Gulab Singh	Liqn. Asstt.	36500	58677
10	Ms. Seema Bansal	Liqn. Asstt.	33900	55011
11	Ms. Pratibha Sharma	Liqn. Asstt.	33900	55011
12	Ms. Simmi Ahuja	Liqn. Asstt.	33900	55011
13	Ms. Anil Aggarwal	Liqn. Asstt.	33900	55011
14	Ms. Anju Dahiya	Liqn. Asstt.	33900	55011
15	Ms. Pradeep Bhardwaj	Liqn. Asstt.	33900	55011
16	Ms. Sonu Saigal	Liqn. Asstt.	33900	55011
17	Ms. Rajni Bala	Liqn. Asstt.	33900	55011
18	Sh. Manjeeet Singh	Liqn. Asstt.	33900	55011
19	Ms. Kusum Bhatt	Liqn. Asstt.	33900	55011
20	Sh. Ramesh Chandra	Liqn. Asstt.	33900	55011
21	Ms. Dharmendra Shukla	Liqn. Asstt.	33900	55011
22	Ms. Dinesh Khurana	Liqn. Asstt.	33900	55011
23	Ms. Dinesh Arora	Liqn. Asstt.	33900	55011
24	Ms. Manju Kaushik	Liqn. Asstt.	33900	55011
25	Ms. Rajesh Kumar	Liqn. Asstt.	33900	55011
26	Sh. Harish Kr. Takkar	Liqn. Asstt.	31900	52191
27	Sh. Jaman Singh	Driver	31400	51486
28	Sh. Sanjay Kumar Rao	Liqn. Asstt.	25200	42744
29	Sh. Wasim Raja	Liqn. Asstt.	25200	42744
30	Sh. Mohan Singh Bisht	Peon	27100	45423
31	Sh. Mukesh	Peon	26800	45000
32	Sh. Arvind Rai	Process Server	26800	45000
33	Sh. Manoj	Peon	25200	42744
34	Sh. Mahesh Kanojia	Process Server	25200	42744
35	Sh. Ramji Rai	Peon	25200	42744
36	Sh. Madan Singh Bisht	Peon	25200	42744
37	Sh. Ram Singh	Peon	25200	42744
38	Sh. Surjeet Singh	Peon cum Driver	26000	43872
39	Sh. Subratoo Mukherjee	Process Server	26000	43872
40	Sh.Yadvinder Sharma	Process Server	24500	41757
41	Sh. Tribhuvan	Peon	24500	41757
42	Sh. Madan Singh	Process Server	24500	41757
43	Sh. Ved Prakash	Peon	24500	41757
44	Sh. Bhudutt Sharma	Record Sorter	24500	41757
45	Sh. Arun Kumar	Peon	24500	41757