Companies Incorporated in 2005

50,915 companies were incorporated in 2005. 21 years on, this cohort represents an established tier of the Indian corporate register. 25,859 of those companies (51%) are currently marked as active on MCA records. The remaining 25,056 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 2005 cohort was most heavily weighted toward Construction, Business Services, 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 2005, reflecting the concentration of India's corporate formation activity in its major commercial states.