As per the data
available in the MCA-21 system of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, as on
28.11.2013 there were 4,83,103 women directors on boards of corporate companies
registered under the Companies Acts including government companies.
Giving this
information in written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha recently, Mr.
Sachin Pilot, Minister of Corporate Affairs, said that Section 149 of the
Companies Act, 2013, inter-alia, provides for the prescribed class or / classes
of companies to have at least one woman director on their Boards.
Draft Rules
indicating the class of companies which are mandated to have at least one Woman
director on their respective Board have already been put in the public domain
for comments of pubic before their finalization.
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