Indian Subsidiary Registration in Delhi NCR

A foreign company entering India can set up a liaison office, a branch office or a wholly owned subsidiary, and the three are not interchangeable. A liaison office cannot invoice anyone locally at all, and a branch office needs Reserve Bank approval for most of what it wants to do. A subsidiary, once incorporated, hires staff, signs contracts and issues invoices like any ordinary Indian private limited company. For a parent that wants to actually run operations rather than just watch the market, the subsidiary wins for almost every genuine business case.

Which Registered Office Fits Your Subsidiary Best?

Once a foreign parent settles on a subsidiary, Delhi NCR asks one more question no single state city ever needs answered. Which of its states will the registered office sit in? That choice alone decides which registrar opens the file, which Regional Director oversees it, and which court would eventually hear any dispute, well before the parent company ever signs a lease or hires a single employee.

• An IT or SaaS parent setting up a global capability centre out of DLF Cyber City, Gurugram, in Haryana.
• A professional services or consulting parent choosing a Connaught Place office in the National Capital Territory instead.

What Documents Does The Parent Company Need To Apostille?

The parent's Certificate of Incorporation, its Memorandum and Articles of Association, and a board resolution authorising the Indian subsidiary all need apostille or notarisation before an Indian registrar accepts them. Proposed directors submit apostilled passport copies and address proof too, along with a recent utility bill wherever they are based. The registered office itself needs a rent agreement or ownership paper for the Gurugram or Connaught Place address, and LegalX India checks every document's format before it goes anywhere near a filing. An Indian resident director is also required on the board from day one. This is someone who has stayed in India for a defined period in the preceding year, and can be nominated separately if the parent does not already have a candidate in mind. LegalX India can arrange this nomination as part of the engagement.

How Does Indian Subsidiary Registration Actually Run?

Once paperwork clears review, the filing runs across four stages.

1. Parent company documents. We confirm the apostilled Certificate of Incorporation, MOA, AOA and board resolution are in order, usually within 3 to 4 days.
2. Indian requirements. DSC and DIN applications go out for proposed directors while the registered office proof is finalised, taking 4 to 5 days.
3. Incorporation. We file on MCA V3, routed to ROC Haryana at Chandigarh for a Gurugram office or ROC Delhi-I for a Connaught Place one, a stage running 10 to 15 days.
4. Compliance. Once incorporated, RBI intimation for the parent's inward remittance and the FEMA filing that follows it wrap up within about 5 to 6 more days.

What Does Indian Subsidiary Registration Cost In Delhi NCR?

The engagement starts at ₹24,999 and covers the registrar filing, director paperwork and post incorporation compliance together, with no separate invoice for RBI or FEMA support.

There is no statutory minimum paid up capital for a private limited subsidiary. Whatever capital the parent brings in, though, must be reported to the RBI through an authorised dealer bank within 30 days of receipt, whether the office sits in Gurugram, in Delhi or anywhere else in India. Missing that window invites an FEMA penalty that is entirely avoidable with basic planning.

Which Registrar And Regional Director Take Your Filing?

A Gurugram registered office falls under ROC Haryana, a single office for the whole state headquartered at Chandigarh. Its Regional Director is Northern Region Directorate II, also seated at Chandigarh, and grouped with Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand rather than with Delhi. A Connaught Place office instead falls under ROC Delhi-I, headquartered in South Delhi, whose Regional Director, Northern Region Directorate I, sits at New Delhi and covers Uttar Pradesh alongside the National Capital Territory. The two states share no registrar and no Regional Director between them, even though a Golf Course Road office in Gurugram and a Nehru Place office in Delhi sit barely thirty kilometres apart. A subsidiary that later opens a second address in the other state ends up reporting to two separate registrars at once, which is worth planning for before the first filing rather than after.

What Compliance Lands In The First Weeks After Incorporation?

Incorporation is only the opening move. Within weeks, state specific obligations arrive that the certificate itself never mentions.

• A Gurugram entity registers under the Punjab Shops and Commercial Establishments Act, 1958, as adapted to Haryana, through the state Labour Department.
• A Connaught Place entity instead follows the Delhi Shops and Establishments Act, 1954, administered by the Labour Department, Government of NCT of Delhi.
• GST registration follows the same split: state code 06 for Haryana, state code 07 for Delhi, so an entity trading from both needs two separate registrations.
• Neither state adds professional tax on top of any of this, a genuine relief compared with several other parts of India.

Why Choose LegalX India For Indian Subsidiary Registration In Delhi NCR?

A dedicated relationship manager tracks the file from apostille review to the first RBI intimation, so nothing sits waiting on an email that never got answered. Our CA and CS team has coordinated ROC Haryana and ROC Delhi-I filings side by side for years, which matters once a parent company runs offices in both states at once. We also line up the resident director nomination, the first GST registration and the initial bank account opening so the subsidiary can actually start operating within days of receiving its certificate, not weeks. Read our Indian subsidiary registration guide for India for the national FDI and FEMA rules behind this service, then call our team for a quote matched to your chosen NCR address.