87 companies disappeared after raising funds through IPO: Govt

"Of 238 firms, 151 companies have been traced (including 32 under liquidation) and other 87 remained untraced. As on March 31, 2012, there were 87 companies that remained untraced after having raised funds through IPO," MCA minister Sachin Pilot said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha on Monday.

Vanishing companies are those firms which cease to file their statements of return or where, after raising capital, whereabouts of their registered office or directors are not known.

Pilot said that government has been taking action against companies and their directors that disappeared after raising money from public. He said that a central coordination and monitoring committee, co-chaired by MCA and market regulator Sebi monitors efforts to identify "vanishing companies" and take stock of action against them. The minister said that government is seeking assistance of police authorities and filing FIRs.