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UTTAR PRADESH

Course Title: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

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3

Course Objective:
Credit Units : 03
The Course coverage would enable the students to have an in-depth understanding
of managerial persons governing the corporations and business entities, the
Industrial sickness, duties and responsibilities including corporate social
responsibility, competition & consumers issues , Regulatory mechanism and
dispute settlement etc . The course will also traverse the laws in relation to
environment and the remedies for deviation thereto. The course preserves the
theoretical and pragmatic amalgam

Pre-requisites:
The student should have understanding of day today Commerce and basic
knowledge of commercial enteritis, transactions with aptitude to comprehend the
working of managerial persons.
Student Learning Outcome:
This course acquaints students with the corporate law and the culture thereto
including the industrial sickness. After undergoing the course student will be

having sufficient knowledge about corporations and their working, besides , the
regulatory mechanism

Course Contents/Syllabus:

Module-I

Company /corporate managerial persons: Promoters, Directors, Managers,


secretaries &treasurer, nominee director and like other designations their duties
and liabilities. Corporate Responsibility including corporate social responsibility and
liability for dishonor of negotiable instruments especially Cheques
Module II:

Sustainability and prevention of sickness: Sick Industries and Rehabilitation,


winding up & bankruptcy laws,
Module III:

conduct concerning trade & business: prevention and oppression of


mismanagement, majority powers & minority rights, Defunct companies ,liability
for negligence ,willful default ,fraudulent & improper conduct , misfeasance /non
-feasance , lifting the veil , indecent conduct in corporate management
Module IV

Corporate environmental responsibility: Industrial pollution including Air, water &


Noise, Transportation of hazardous substances , Regulatory Mechanism ,
Compliances to Environmental laws , and remedies for breach
Module-V
Authorities and adjudications : Registrar of Companies and his functions ,
Compliances under various Laws , garnishee orders ,disclosure of information &
consequence for non compliance , Company Law Tribunal, Role of Central

Government and other statutory authorities , Consumer Commission , competition


Commission /Tribunal, SEBI and its report on corporate governance

Pedagogy for Course Delivery:


The course will be conducted using lectures, assignments. The students will be
acquainted with important case laws on the subject to understand the intricacies of
the subject including the stock and foreign exchange.
Lab/ Practical details, if applicable: NA
List of Experiments: NA
Assessment/ Examination Scheme:

Assessment/ Examination Scheme:


Theory L/T (%)

Lab/Practical/Studio (%)

30%

NA

Theory Assessment (L&T):


Continuous Assessment/Internal Assessment

Components (Drop
down)

Mid-Term
Exam

Project

Viva

10%

10%

5%

Weightage (%)

Attendance

Text and References:


Avtar Singh : Indian Company Law
S.M. Shah : Lectures on Company Law
H.K.Saharay : Company Law
Chandratre, Acharya : SEBI Compendium

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