Why has my DIN stopped working when nobody removed me as a director? Because the DIR-3 KYC against that number was not filed by 30 September, and MCA switches the DIN off on its own once the date passes. No notice reaches you first. The number belongs to you rather than to your company, so the repair is a filing made against your own DIN on MCA V3, not a letter to ROC Pune. We file it from ₹999 and the status is usually back to active in 3 to 5 working days.
Does this apply to your DIN, and for which financial year?
Every DIN allotted on or before 31 March of a financial year carries a KYC for that year, and it falls due on the 30 September that follows. The duty follows the number, not the seat on a board. You file it even where the DIN sits idle, and even where you left the board years ago.
- You hold a DIN allotted on or before 31 March of the year just closed and no KYC has gone in since.
- You resigned from a Pune company but never surrendered the number, so the yearly KYC still follows you.
- You are a designated partner in an LLP, where the same annual KYC attaches to the DIN.
- Your MCA V3 record already reads deactivated for non filing of DIR-3 KYC.
The rules on who files and what the form asks are national, and how DIN activation works across India sets them out in full. What follows is the Pune side of the same job.
What has to be in your hands before we can file?
Four things decide whether this is a one day job or a two week one, and three of them are personal rather than corporate.
- A personal mobile number and a personal email you can read an OTP on within the hour. A shared company inbox will not do.
- PAN and Aadhaar that agree with the name and the date of birth already sitting on your MCA record.
- A Class 3 digital signature that has not expired and is still associated with your DIN.
- Your current residential address, with a passport where the director is a foreign national.
Tell us as well whether the mobile number, the email or the address changed since your last KYC. If nothing moved, the shorter web route usually works. If anything did, the full DIR-3 KYC form is the only route and the attachments get read closely.
When does a DIN go dark, and when can it be revived?
30 September is the single annual date on this filing and it does not shift for Pune or for anywhere else. A DIN allotted during the financial year just ended becomes due on the 30 September that comes after that year closes. Miss it and the number goes dark the following day.
A dead DIN can be revived on any working day after that. The fee does not climb month by month, so a DIN switched off in 2023 costs the same to revive as one that went off last week. What does climb is the bill your company runs up while a director's signature is unavailable.
What does a late or missed DIR-3 KYC actually cost?
| What happened | What MCA does | What it costs |
|---|---|---|
| KYC missed on 30 September | The DIN moves to deactivated status | ₹5,000 on the reactivation filing |
| Accounts fall due while the DIN is off | AOC-4 and MGT-7 cannot carry that signature | An additional fee of ₹100 a day for each form |
| A board change is waiting to be recorded | DIR-12 will not take a deactivated DIN | The appointment or the resignation stays off the register |
| Three KYC years missed together | One DIR-3 KYC clears the whole gap | The ₹5,000 is charged once, not for each year |
The ₹5,000 is an MCA charge and it reaches the government, not us. Our ₹999 is separate and covers the filing work itself.
How we run it, from signature to SRN
- The DIN status comes up on MCA V3 first, and that settles which of the two KYC routes your record allows.
- We test the digital signature for expiry and for its mapping to the DIN, and register a fresh one where that has lapsed.
- We prepare DIR-3 KYC with your PAN, Aadhaar, address and personal contact details written the way the record ought to read.
- You clear two OTPs while we are on the call, one on the mobile number and one on the email.
- A practising professional certifies the form, we submit it, and the ₹5,000 challan is paid where the date has gone by.
- The SRN comes back on submission and the status turns active, ordinarily inside 3 to 5 working days.
Which Pune directors does this usually catch?
- A director of a corporate services firm on leased premises in Kharadi, whose MCA email still runs on a landlord's old domain, so the OTP lands nowhere.
- A SaaS founder in Hinjawadi whose signing certificate expired after a funding round, taking the year's KYC down with it.
- A designated partner of an LLP in Baner who assumed the annual LLP filing covered the DIN as well.
- A family business director in Pimpri who stepped down in 2023 and is now asked for a live DIN by a lender.
One pattern sits under all four. The DIN was set up around a contact detail that belonged to a job, an office or a handset, and then the job, the office or the handset changed.
Where does this filing land, and which office sees it later?
DIR-3 KYC sits against your DIN and not against the company's CIN, so no counter in Pune approves it. What is local is everything the dead number holds up. MCA's registrar list still carries a Maharashtra registrar at Pune, with its own Registrar and contact details, and the restructuring of 16 February 2026 left that office alone. ROC Pune is the registrar for Pune and the districts around it. Before we file anything for the company, we confirm the registrar that your own address answers to.
Your annual accounts, the DIR-12 on a board change and the INC-22 on an address change all go there, and each of them needs a live DIN behind the signature. Pune companies sit under Western Region Directorate II at Navi Mumbai. A shift of the registered office to another registrar inside the state needs Regional Director confirmation on INC-23, and we confirm which directorate the application goes to before filing. A petition or a restoration is heard by NCLT Mumbai. Your CIN carries the Maharashtra state code, which tracks the state rather than the registrar, so nothing there changes either.
How does LegalX India clear a deactivated DIN?
We handle MCA work for Pune companies every week, from Hinjawadi and Kharadi across to Pimpri and Chakan, and a deactivated DIN is the thing we are most often asked to clear first. Our Pune office is at Yashwant Nagar, Near Bharatiya Samajseva, Yerwada, Pune 411006, and the number is +91 96356 85435. Jurisdiction follows your own registered address and never ours. The work runs online, a CA or CS owns your file from the status check to the SRN, and a callback comes within 30 minutes when you ask for one. More than 15,000 businesses have filed with us, with 50 experts behind the desk.