Companies Incorporated in 1996

46,401 companies were incorporated in 1996. 30 years on, this cohort represents an established tier of the Indian corporate register. 16,408 of those companies (35%) are currently marked as active on MCA records. The remaining 29,993 have since been struck off, dissolved, amalgamated, or placed in other non-active states — a natural attrition pattern visible across every annual cohort on the MCA register. The 1996 cohort was most heavily weighted toward Finance, Trading, Trading — these were the NIC industry codes that captured the largest share of new incorporations that year. Geographically, Delhi, Maharashtra, West Bengal contributed the highest number of incorporations in 1996, reflecting the concentration of India's corporate formation activity in its major commercial states.