A public limited company fits a Pune business that can put seven subscribers and three directors on record. It also fits one that expects to raise money from outside a small circle. It does not fit a two founder team in Baner still testing a product. Below that line a private limited company costs less to run and reports less. Cross it and the heavier structure starts to earn its keep. The rest of this page is the filing itself, and what Maharashtra asks of the company afterwards.
Which company structure has to be settled before anything else?
Settle the entity before you settle the name. A public limited company runs on a minimum of seven shareholders and three directors, with at least one of those directors resident in India. There is no cap on members. Shares move without the transfer restrictions a private company writes into its articles, and that freedom is the whole reason to be here.
Two questions decide it for most Pune founders. Can you produce seven genuine subscribers now, rather than a promise of seven later? And do you want the option of a public issue, or only the outside investment a private company can already take? A SaaS team in Hinjawadi with four angel investors usually answers no twice, and we say so on the first call.
- Seven subscribers with PAN and Aadhaar in order, three of them willing to carry director responsibility
- A registered office address in Pune district that you can evidence with a current utility bill
- An authorised capital figure fixed before drafting, since the stamp duty is computed on the instrument
- A clear view of the disclosure and meeting load that follows this structure for as long as it exists
What paperwork does a Pune applicant put together?
Documents come before forms here. Seven subscribers means seven sets, and one missing page in the seventh set stops the whole application.
From every subscriber and director we need PAN and Aadhaar, with the names matching across both. Add one address proof no older than two months, a photograph, and an email and mobile number that will carry the verification codes for the digital signature. A subscriber signing from outside India needs a notarised and apostilled passport instead.
For the registered office we need a utility bill for the premises no older than two months and a no objection letter from the owner. If the space is rented, the leave and licence agreement goes in with it. Leave and licence agreements are compulsorily registrable in Maharashtra, with the obligation on the landlord, so a Kharadi or Hinjawadi office taken on licence should carry that registration before the address is filed.
What does a public limited registration cost in Pune?
Professional work on this page starts at ₹4,999. What sits on top of it depends on how many signatories you have and on what the state charges against the documents you execute.
| Cost component | What decides it | How it is quoted |
|---|---|---|
| LegalX India professional fee | Fixed for the engagement | From ₹4,999 |
| Digital signature certificates | One per subscriber and director, so seven at least | Seven in the package, extras quoted |
| Name reservation and SPICe+ filing | MCA's own schedule, paid on the V3 portal | Government fee at actuals |
| Stamp duty on the memorandum and articles | The instrument and the value | Computed before execution |
| PAN, TAN, EPF and ESIC applications | Filed inside the same form | No separate professional fee |
The row that moves is the second one. Seven subscribers is a floor and not a target, and every extra signatory adds a certificate to the bill. We fix that count before quoting rather than after.
How the filing runs from name to certificate
- We confirm the seven subscribers, the object clause and two name options, then test both names against the MCA register and the trade mark database.
- Digital signatures are issued for every subscriber and director, with the video verification done from wherever each person happens to be sitting.
- The name goes in through SPICe+ Part A. Where the objects and the name pull in different directions, this is the stage that exposes it.
- We draft the memorandum and articles around your objects, compute the Maharashtra stamp duty on them, and file SPICe+ Part B with the PAN, TAN, EPF and ESIC applications attached.
- ROC Pune issues the certificate of incorporation and the CIN, which carries state code MH. A complete file runs 20 to 30 days from documents to certificate.
Where does the address on your incorporation papers put the company?
ROC Pune is the registrar for companies with a registered office in Pune district. That office takes your SPICe+ application and holds every annual filing the company makes after it. The registrar restructuring that took effect in 2026 bifurcated four registrars elsewhere in the country and left Pune untouched, so a Pune company's filing address did not change.
All of it runs on the MCA V3 portal. Nobody visits a counter and no paper is carried anywhere.
Above the registrar sits the Regional Director, Western Region Directorate II, stationed at Navi Mumbai. That authority matters for a registered office shift out of the state and for compounding, which is later business rather than incorporation business. Company petitions go to the NCLT Mumbai Bench, which covers Maharashtra and Goa. None of it turns on your locality inside the city. It turns on the district in your registered office address.
Which obligations start running for a new Pune company?
Incorporation opens a calendar, and the Maharashtra half of that calendar is what advisers from outside the state tend to miss.
- Profession tax arrives as two certificates rather than one. The company enrols under PTEC for its own annual liability, and registers under PTRC before it deducts anything from salaries. We take each where it applies, both on mahagst.gov.in.
- The state Labour Department is where establishment registration lands, under the Maharashtra Shops and Establishments Act 2017, with the application made online to the Facilitator. A 2025 ordinance moved that threshold up. The consolidated Act text still prints the older figure, so we check what governs your filing on the day it goes in.
- Maharashtra Labour Welfare Fund registration is a listed Labour Department service, and the fund takes a half yearly contribution.
- EPF coverage begins at twenty employees. Under the Code on Social Security 2020, ESI reaches an establishment employing ten or more. ESIC handles that side from its Sub Regional Office, Pune, and EPFO runs four Regional Offices at Pune.
The company law calendar starts at once as well. INC-20A goes in before business begins, the first auditor is appointed within thirty days, and then AOC-4 and MGT-7 fall due each year with DIR-3 KYC for every director. A public limited company also carries board and disclosure duties that a private company is exempt from.
Who is registering a public limited company in Pune right now?
- An IT services and SaaS founder in Hinjawadi whose shareholder count has outgrown a private company, and who wants the listing option left open
- An engineering and machining unit in Bhosari that exports, converting a family firm so that the next generation and outside investors can hold shares properly
- A promoter group consolidating three related entities ahead of an issue, which needs the seven subscriber rule met with real holders and not with names on paper
The refusals are just as common. A three partner consultancy in Kothrud does not need this structure, and a private company with a properly drafted shareholders agreement does the same job for a fraction of the yearly cost.
Why LegalX India for a Pune public limited company?
Seven document sets and seven digital signatures are most of the real work on this filing, and chasing them is what we are paid for. Our CAs and CSs run the application end to end, online, at the price quoted. More than 15,000 businesses have used us, and the team knows which queries actually come back from ROC Pune on a public limited application.
Our Pune team works out of Yerwada, though where we sit decides nothing for you. Your registered office address decides your registrar. Call +91 96356 85435 or ask for a callback within 30 minutes, and read the national public limited company registration guide if you want the Companies Act background behind the structure.