Company registration in Hyderabad

Which Registrar of Companies handles a Hyderabad incorporation

ROC Hyderabad handles it, and unlike much of the country that has not changed.

The Ministry of Corporate Affairs re-notified ten Registrar of Companies offices by notification S.O. 4850(E) dated 23 October 2025, with effect from 16 February 2026 (the original 1 January 2026 start was deferred). ROC Hyderabad is not on that list. Its jurisdiction is unchanged, and so is the Regional Director: a Hyderabad company's Regional Director applications go to the Regional Director (South East Region) at Hyderabad.

That stability is worth knowing, because a lot of 2026 commentary about "new ROC offices" does not apply to you. Telangana companies did not have to change where they file, unlike Haryana companies, who moved out of ROC Delhi, or western Uttar Pradesh companies, who moved out of ROC Kanpur.

One thing did move, and it is a common source of confusion. Karnataka, Kerala and Lakshadweep went to the new Regional Director (SWR) at Bangalore on 16 February 2026. If you have been told, or have read on an older page, that the Hyderabad Regional Director covers Karnataka work, that is out of date.

What Telangana adds, and what we will not put a number on

Stamp duty. Telangana stamp duty on the Memorandum and Articles is a state charge on your authorised capital and we quote it before we file. We publish no figure. The only state-wise compilation we could find predates the 2014 bifurcation and lists Andhra Pradesh, not Telangana, so every page quoting you a precise Telangana rate is quoting an Andhra Pradesh number from before the state existed. That is not a number to pay against.

Professional tax. Telangana levies professional tax under the Telangana Tax on Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Act, 1987, administered by the Commercial Taxes Department. New registrations, payments and returns run on the department's own module at ptax.tgct.gov.in, reached from the Profession Tax tab on the department portal.

Two registrations exist: registration as an employer, if you deduct professional tax from salaries, and enrolment for the business or professional in its own right. Telangana's own pages use those words. If an adviser sends you a Telangana form labelled PTEC or PTRC, they have brought Maharashtra's vocabulary with them.

We do not publish Telangana slab figures. The Act, the department and the module are all official, but the Schedule itself was not retrievable, and professional tax is capped in any case at ₹2,500 per person per year by Article 276(2) of the Constitution. We confirm your actual liability from the current Schedule when we register you.

Shops and establishments. Telangana's law is the Telangana Shops and Establishments Act, 1988 (Act No. 20 of 1988), with the Telangana Shops and Establishments Rules, 1990, administered by the Labour Department at labour.telangana.gov.in. This is a registration, not an intimation: unlike Maharashtra, a small Telangana establishment does register rather than simply notify.

The municipal layer changed in February 2026, and this is the fact most pages have missed. Telangana reorganised the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation into three municipal corporations: GHMC with 150 wards, Cyberabad Municipal Corporation with 76 wards and Malkajgiri Municipal Corporation with 74 wards, taking effect in February 2026 when the GHMC council's term expired.

Note what this is and is not. GHMC was not abolished: it survives with a smaller jurisdiction, so naming GHMC is not wrong. But it no longer covers the whole city. A Gachibowli or Madhapur premises may now fall under Cyberabad rather than GHMC, so which corporation issues your trade licence depends on your address. We do not publish a ward-to-corporation map, because the mapping has not been verified, and neither should anyone else. We confirm it against your address.

The four labour codes came into force on 21 November 2025, and a factory in Telangana is now regulated under the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 rather than the Factories Act.

What a new Hyderabad company usually needs alongside incorporation

Most take a GSTIN early. Telangana did not adopt the higher ₹40 lakh limit for goods (it is one of the States excluded in Notification 10/2019-Central Tax), so the threshold is ₹20 lakh for goods and services alike, and it stops mattering the moment you supply goods out of state. See GST registration in Hyderabad.

Alongside that: the Telangana professional tax registration and enrolment described above, registration under the 1988 Shops Act, a Udyam registration if you want MSME standing, trademark registration in Hyderabad if you trade under a brand, and TS-iPASS at ipass.telangana.gov.in, which is Telangana's single-window industrial approval system, where an approval your activity needs is likely to be routed.

How Regikart serves Hyderabad

We do not have an office in Hyderabad. Regikart's offices are Kolkata (head office), Delhi and Bengaluru, and Hyderabad work is done remotely from one of them. Scans come by WhatsApp or email on +91 70444 94804 or [email protected], Digital Signature Certificate video KYC happens on your phone, and SPICe+ is filed on the MCA portal. The Central Registration Centre processes SPICe+ online, so there is nothing to hand in anywhere. Note that our Bengaluru office is in Karnataka, a different state: it does not give you a Telangana presence, and Karnataka's professional tax, shops law and Regional Director are all different from Telangana's.