What Happens when Businesses go Bankrupt.
How India handles Bankruptcies:
In recent years, India has changed the way it handled bankruptcy. From a bad bankruptcy system to one where simple laws and regulations are in a position to assist promoters, company owners, businessmen, and other stakeholders to deal with bankruptcy in an organized manner. For example, the new Insolvency and Bankruptcy Act specifically outlines how bankruptcies can be managed and how companies can be liquidated to benefit all stakeholders in the process of bankruptcy rather than tackling losses. The law was enforced due to huge pressure from small companies. Since the government had a perception of the very relaxed process towards large promoters and well-known industrialists.
What is the process of Bankruptcy:
Towns Insolvency Act of 1909 will be the rule if you live in Chennai, Mumbai, or Kolkata. However, the Provincial Insolvency Act of 1920 applies to other places in India. You can apply for insolvency under Provincial Insolvency Act if you don’t repay the debt of more than ₹500. You need to fill out an application. The court may approve or reject the request after evaluating the criteria for filing. A temporary recipient will take possession of the debtor’s property until any decision. The court is entitled to stay in legal proceedings against the debtor’s property or assets if the application is accepted. In other words, creditors may order you to be against further recovery efforts.
Once your request is accepted, the property will be handed, to the receiver’s designation by the court. The representative will then distribute the assets to creditors. The debtor will be released from bankruptcy after the process is completed by the courts. There will be no restrictions to establish and live with no concern for previous creditors. One can ask for a minimum maintenance charge for your survival as a result of the ongoing court proceedings. However, several restrictions apply to you until released from the case. The unreleased insolvent under existing law cannot act as a director, public servant, elected or sit or cast a vote as a representative of any local authority. However, you are not completely free if you have government debt or involvement in any fraudulent activity.
Righteousness to all the stakeholders:
Although, there is no reason to worry when companies go bankrupt. However, bankruptcy does not give a good experience for promoters, employees, or shareholders. The employees are dismissed immediately after fraud. While the shareholders risk losing their money. The rules around the world often fail to protect shareholders. As per corporate law, shareholders are paid only, if money is left after the payment of the creditors.
The debtholders are assisted to recover their money and the legislation focuses to ensures that the assets are disposed to the new owner. Moreover, there are no explicit guarantees in the legislation specifically to protect employees. Although, provisions exist for the fair disposal of the assets and the payment of dues to the employees. Hence, it is always important that shareholders and employees must exercise their proper research before investing or joining the companies.
Cases of the bankruptcies in the Aviation sector:
After reviewing the Indian aviation industry, which can show how bankruptcies can become messy and trigger pleasant turnarounds. For instance, Kingfisher is an example of how bankruptcies can turn the company if not managed. For the last decade, the case has dragged on, without an end to the afflicted creditors or the former staff. The former promoter lives abroad. The case of Spice Jet is, on the other hand, an example of how to deal with severe financial distress well. To turn the companies around somewhere is the main objective of Jet Airways, which seems to be trying to move towards some kind of resolution after a prolonged fight to tide the crisis. In a nutshell, all stakeholders should make sure that they do not rest when companies go bankrupt and focus instead on discovering their feet again.
