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Choosing your company's name? MCA lists examples to avoid any duplication

The Ministry of Corporate Affairs made it clear that the use of different phonetic spellings, including the use of misspelled words of an expression, would be treated as same

Choosing your company's name? MCA lists examples to avoid any duplication
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Indivjal Dhasmana New Delhi
William Shakespeare advised against fighting over names, but the suggestion is infructuous when companies are incorporated. 

To avoid disputes, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) has come up with illustrations of names which may or may not be incorporated if there are similar names of existing companies. 

Say, if there is a company named Green Technology Ltd, you cannot incorporate another firm with a modified name such as Greens Technology Ltd or Green Technologies Ltd. 

The rules were there — “Companies (Incorporation) Rules, 2014”. Now illustrations have been added to these rules by amending them. These will also expedite incorporating companies.

To further illustrate