IBBI CIRP Fourth Amendment 2026: what changed for creditors and bidders

TL;DR: On 8 June 2026 the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India notified the IBBI (Insolvency Resolution Process for Corporate Persons) (Fourth Amendment) Regulations, 2026. This is the fourth set of changes to the CIRP Regulations in 2026 alone, and it sits on top of a busy 2025 and a fresh IBC (Amendment) Act, 2026. The headline shifts: the Committee of Creditors must now include the eighteen largest unrelated operational creditors; every rupee of resolution cost after the first CoC meeting needs prior CoC approval, with actuals checked against estimates at each meeting; resolution professionals must table a Going Concern Assessment Report; and the CoC has to record written reasons on the feasibility, viability, and recovery numbers behind every resolution plan it considers. Read together with the project-wise resolution and homebuyer protections from 2025, the message is consistent. Creditors get more say, professionals get more paperwork, and bidders face a CoC that has to justify its own decisions on the record. If you are a lender, a resolution professional, a prospective acquirer, or a homebuyer stuck in a stalled project, this one matters.

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The IBC and CIRP in plain terms

Start with the statute. The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 is the single law that governs how a company in India is rescued or wound up when it cannot pay its debts. Before the Code, recovery was scattered across the old SICA regime, the SARFAESI Act, debt recovery tribunals, and winding-up petitions before the high courts. The IBC pulled the corporate piece into one time-bound process and handed control to creditors instead of the defaulting promoter.

The Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process, or CIRP, is the heart of it. When a company defaults on a debt above the threshold, a financial creditor, an operational creditor, or the company itself can apply to the adjudicating authority to start CIRP. The adjudicating authority for companies is the National Company Law Tribunal, the NCLT. Appeals go to the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal, the NCLAT, and from there to the Supreme Court.

Once CIRP begins, a few things happen at once. A moratorium kicks in, so no fresh suits, recovery actions, or enforcement can run against the company. The board of directors is suspended. An Interim Resolution Professional, the IRP, takes charge and runs the company as a going concern. The IRP collects claims from creditors and forms the Committee of Creditors, the CoC, which is made up mainly of the financial creditors.

The CoC is the decision-making body. It can confirm the IRP as the Resolution Professional, the RP, or replace them. The RP then runs the show, prepares an Information Memorandum that describes the company to potential buyers, invites resolution plans, and puts the best plan to the CoC. If the CoC approves a plan by the required majority, the RP files it with the NCLT for the final stamp. If no plan clears, the company heads to liquidation.

Two ideas drive everything. First, time. A stressed company loses value every day it sits in limbo, so the Code sets hard deadlines. Second, commercial wisdom. The Supreme Court has held, again and again, that the CoC’s commercial judgment on which plan to accept is not for tribunals to second-guess on merits. Hold on to both ideas, because the 2026 amendments are squarely about tightening the timeline and putting guardrails on that commercial wisdom.

One more piece of vocabulary will help before we go further. Two valuation numbers shadow every CIRP. The fair value is what the company’s assets would fetch in an orderly sale between a willing buyer and a willing seller. The liquidation value is the lower figure the assets would fetch in a forced, piecemeal sale if the company were broken up. Registered valuers fix both numbers, and the CoC uses them as the floor and the benchmark when it judges whether a resolution plan offers creditors a fair deal. Keep these two numbers in mind, because the 2026 amendments lean heavily on them, both in how valuers are appointed and in how the CoC must now justify the recoveries a plan delivers against them.

It is also worth naming the cast of characters once, cleanly, because the acronyms fly thick in this area. The IRP is the interim resolution professional who takes initial charge. The RP is the resolution professional who runs the bulk of the process. The CoC is the committee of creditors, the decision-making body. The AA, the adjudicating authority, is the NCLT. The IBBI is the regulator that writes the regulations we are about to dissect. And the resolution applicant, sometimes called the bidder, is the party proposing to acquire and revive the company. Every change below moves one or more of these players.

Why so many amendments in 2025 and 2026

If you feel like the CIRP rulebook never stops moving, you are right. The IBBI is the regulator that frames these regulations, and it has been amending the CIRP Regulations, 2016 at a steady clip.

In 2025 alone there were multiple rounds. The first amendment, notified on 3 February 2025, focused heavily on real estate projects and large creditor groups. Later rounds through 2025, including the Fifth Amendment notified on 4 July 2025 and the Sixth Amendment enacted on 14 October 2025, reworked disclosure norms, the treatment of avoidance transactions, and the compliance certificate the RP files in Form H. The Sixth Amendment, as covered by TaxGuru, omitted Regulation 39C and trimmed Regulation 39D and Form H.

Then 2026 opened with bigger artillery. Parliament passed the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Act, 2026, which the LiveLaw analysis describes as one of the most extensive reworks of the corporate insolvency regime since the Code came in. The Act introduced a Creditor-Initiated Insolvency Resolution Process under a new Chapter IV-A, tightened timelines, and expanded creditor and CoC powers. The IBBI then followed with a run of regulation amendments to operationalise the new framework.

By June 2026 the IBBI had notified the Amendment Regulations 2026, the Second Amendment 2026 on 19 May 2026, the Third Amendment 2026 on 1 June 2026, and the Fourth Amendment 2026 on 8 June 2026. Each one moves a different lever. The Second Amendment, per SCC Online, reworked Regulation 27 on appointing valuers, requiring the RP to appoint valuers within seven days of appointment and no later than the forty-seventh day from the insolvency start date, with an exception for MSMEs, and to appoint two sets of registered valuers to fix the fair value and the liquidation value. The Third Amendment, also via SCC Online, enabled early dissolution in unviable cases and allowed restoration of CIRP before a liquidation order, under a new Section 33(1A) that lets the CoC, by at least sixty-six percent, seek restoration for up to 120 days, once only. The Third Amendment also revised Regulation 3 on eligibility, so that if the CoC decides in its first meeting to continue the IRP as the RP, it must inform the corporate debtor, the IBBI, and the adjudicating authority within three days of that decision.

Why does the IBBI move so often? Part of the answer is that insolvency is a living laboratory. Every large case throws up a gap the rules did not anticipate, a delay nobody designed for, or a stakeholder left without a voice. Rather than wait for a once-a-decade overhaul, the IBBI patches the regulations as the gaps surface, often after floating a discussion paper and inviting comments first. The cost of this approach is exactly the problem this article is trying to solve for you: the rulebook you learned last year may not be the rulebook in force today. The benefit is that the framework keeps closing real-world gaps instead of ossifying. For practitioners, the lesson is simple and unforgiving. Never quote a CIRP regulation from memory. Pull the current notification every time.

This article focuses on the Fourth Amendment 2026, the most recent at the time of writing, while reading it against everything stacked beneath it.

What the Fourth Amendment 2026 changes, item by item

The IBBI notified the Fourth Amendment 2026 on 8 June 2026. Going by the SCC Online breakdown and the Taxscan report on the notification, the amendment pushes on creditor participation and cost discipline. Here is what actually moved.

Committee of Creditors composition. The composition of the CoC has been revised to include the eighteen largest unrelated operational creditors. Where fewer than eighteen such creditors exist, all of them must be included. Operational creditors, think suppliers, vendors, and service providers, have long complained that they sit on the sidelines of the CoC, which is dominated by financial creditors. This change forces a defined set of larger operational creditors into the room. They still lack the voting clout of financial creditors in most cases, but they now get a structured seat and a sightline into the process.

Cost approval, the substituted Regulation 31B. This is the discipline play. The amendment substitutes Regulation 31B to require prior CoC approval for all insolvency resolution process costs incurred after the first CoC meeting. And it does not stop at approval. At each meeting, the professional must compare actual costs against the previously approved estimates. So the CoC sees, meeting after meeting, whether the RP is spending within the budget it signed off on. The intent is to stop the quiet creep of insolvency costs that eats into what creditors eventually recover.

Going Concern Assessment Report. The RP must now present a Going Concern Assessment Report. This report has to set out projected income, expenses, cash flows, working capital needs, and, crucially, the risks of value erosion if the company keeps running. The idea is to give the CoC a clear, periodic read on whether running the company as a going concern is still the right call or whether value is bleeding away while everyone waits for a plan.

Resolution plan documentation, changes to Regulation 39. The CoC must now document its reasoning. Under the changes to Regulation 39, when the CoC evaluates resolution plans it has to record, in writing, its view on the feasibility and viability of each plan, the expected recoveries compared with the fair value and liquidation value, and the adequacy of the market discovery process, including any challenge mechanism or re-invitation of plans. This is the most consequential change for anyone who has watched the courts wrestle with the limits of CoC commercial wisdom. The CoC keeps its commercial judgment, but it can no longer exercise it silently. It has to show its work.

To see why this last change matters so much, you have to understand the tension it resolves. For years the courts have said the CoC’s commercial wisdom is supreme, that a tribunal cannot sit in appeal over the business judgment of creditors who have their own money on the line. That doctrine protected the process from endless second-guessing, but it also created a vacuum. A CoC could reject a higher bid, accept a lower one, or wave through a plan with thin reasoning, and as long as it did not cross some outer line of perversity, the decision stood. Disappointed bidders and aggrieved creditors had little to grab onto, because there was often nothing on the record explaining why. The revised Regulation 39 changes the texture of that protection. Commercial wisdom survives, but it now has to be expressed, not assumed. A CoC that writes down why a plan is feasible, what recoveries it expects against fair and liquidation value, and why the market discovery was adequate is giving itself a defensible record. A CoC that does not is handing every losing party an argument. The doctrine has not been overturned. It has been made to account for itself.

Here is a quick map of the main changes.

AreaWhat the Fourth Amendment 2026 doesWho feels it most
CoC compositionAdds the 18 largest unrelated operational creditors (or all, if fewer)Operational creditors, suppliers
Resolution costsSubstitutes Reg 31B: prior CoC approval after first meeting, actuals vs estimates each meetingRPs, CoC
Going concern viewRP must present a Going Concern Assessment Report with cash flows and value-erosion riskRPs, CoC, bidders
Plan evaluationReg 39: CoC must record written reasons on feasibility, viability, recoveries, market discoveryCoC, resolution applicants

The connective tissue across all four is accountability. The CoC gets more reach, but it also has to justify its spending and its plan choices on the record.

Real estate and project-wise resolution

The Fourth Amendment 2026 lands on a foundation that the IBBI has been laying for real estate since 2024. This is worth understanding on its own, because real estate insolvencies are where homebuyers, the most vulnerable stakeholders, sit.

The starting problem was structural. A typical developer runs many projects through one corporate entity. Under the old approach, if the company went into CIRP, every project went in with it, even the healthy ones, dragging down buyers who had nothing to do with the failed tower. The fix was project-wise resolution. On 15 February 2024 the CIRP Regulations were amended to allow CIRP to be conducted on a project-by-project basis, so a single failing project can be resolved without sinking the developer’s entire book. The IBC (Amendment) Act, 2026 has since codified project-wise CIRP into the statute itself, as the Bar & Bench view on the Amendment Act discusses.

The 3 February 2025 amendment then strengthened the homebuyer position directly. Under Regulation 4F, as explained in the Cyril Amarchand analysis of the real estate reforms, if a homebuyer has discharged their obligations under the agreement for sale, the RP has to hand over possession of the unit and facilitate its registration in favour of that buyer during the resolution process, subject to CoC approval by at least sixty-six percent of votes. In plain terms, a buyer who has paid in full can get their flat handed over while the larger process continues, rather than waiting years for the whole resolution to close.

The same set of changes brought the real estate regulator into the room. Under Regulation 18(4), where the corporate debtor has a real estate project, the RP, on a direction from the CoC, must invite RERA to attend CoC meetings, though without voting rights. The S&R Associates note on the 2025 reforms and the Chambers and Partners piece on homebuyer welfare both treat this as a meaningful shift, because it forces the project-level regulator and the insolvency process to talk to each other.

The Supreme Court has been pushing in the same direction. As the Acuity Law summary records, the Court has read additional mandatory requirements into how the CoC must act in homebuyer insolvencies, holding that while the commercial wisdom of the CoC stays paramount, that power carries a duty of responsibility, transparency, and proper application of mind where homebuyers’ interests are at stake. The Fourth Amendment 2026 requirement that the CoC document its reasoning on every plan fits this judicial mood neatly.

Interim finance and CoC participation

A company in CIRP still needs cash to keep the lights on, pay wages, and run operations while a buyer is found. That cash is interim finance, and the people who provide it carry real risk, because the company is already insolvent.

Earlier amendments addressed this. Regulation 18 was changed to let interim finance providers attend CoC meetings as non-voting observers. The logic is sensible. People lending fresh money into a distressed estate deserve a window into the discussions that will decide whether they get repaid, even if they do not get a vote. The Acuity Law overview of the CIRP amendments frames this as a balance between inclusivity and creditor control, and that is the right way to see it.

Read this alongside the Fourth Amendment 2026’s operational creditor and RERA provisions, and a pattern emerges. The CoC meeting is becoming a wider table. Financial creditors still hold the votes, but operational creditors, interim financiers, and, in real estate, the regulator are all being pulled into the room as observers or participants. The decision power stays concentrated, but the visibility is spreading out. For a process that lives or dies on trust between stakeholders, that is a deliberate design choice.

There is a financing logic here that deserves a closer look, because it explains why the IBBI keeps tinkering with who sits at the CoC table. Interim finance is notoriously hard to raise. A lender is being asked to put fresh money into a company that has already failed to pay its existing debts, on the promise that interim finance ranks high in the waterfall of repayments. If that lender has no line of sight into how the process is being run, the risk feels unbounded, and the money simply does not come. By letting interim financiers observe the CoC, the regulator is trying to lower the perceived risk of lending into a distressed estate, which in turn makes liquidity easier to find. The same instinct drives the operational creditor seats and the RERA invitation. Each is a small move to convert outsiders, who might otherwise litigate or withhold cooperation, into informed participants who can see that the process is fair. Whether it works depends on whether the visibility is real or ceremonial, and that will only show up in how these meetings actually run.

Timelines and the 330-day wall

None of this works if the process drags. The IBC’s original promise was speed, and the timeline rules are where that promise is enforced.

Section 12 of the Code sets the outer limit. CIRP must be completed within 330 days from the insolvency commencement date, and that figure includes extensions and any time lost to litigation. The base period is 180 days. The RP can apply to the NCLT to extend it by up to a further 90 days, but only if the CoC passes a resolution to that effect by a sixty-six percent vote, and that extension can be granted only once.

The 330-day figure is a hard wall, but not an absolute one. As the Bar & Bench report on the Supreme Court’s directions notes, the Supreme Court has told the NCLT and NCLAT to treat the 330-day deadline as sacrosanct and to decide IBC matters with that deadline in mind. The NCLAT has held that extension beyond 330 days is permissible only in genuinely exceptional circumstances, where a short additional period is needed, the delay was not the litigants’ fault, and putting the company back on its feet serves all stakeholders better than liquidation.

This is where the 2026 changes connect to the clock. The Going Concern Assessment Report and the cost-vs-estimate check at every meeting are not just transparency measures. They are pressure mechanisms. If the going concern report shows value eroding, the CoC has data telling it to either resolve fast or move to liquidation rather than burn months. The Third Amendment 2026’s early dissolution and CIRP restoration tools cut the same way: give the process clean off-ramps so unviable cases exit quickly and salvageable ones get a controlled second chance. Speed and accountability are being engineered to reinforce each other.

What it means for creditors

For creditors, the through-line of the 2026 amendments is more power paired with more responsibility.

Financial creditors keep their dominant position. They populate the voting CoC and their commercial wisdom still decides which plan wins. But that wisdom now has to be documented. Under the revised Regulation 39, the CoC must record its reasoning on feasibility, viability, expected recoveries against fair and liquidation value, and the adequacy of market discovery. The practical effect is that a CoC decision is harder to attack as arbitrary if it is well-reasoned on the record, and far easier to attack if it is not. Lenders should expect their nominees on the CoC to insist on proper minuting of every plan decision, because that record is now the shield.

Operational creditors gain real ground. The Fourth Amendment 2026 brings the eighteen largest unrelated operational creditors into the CoC. They will not usually outvote the financial creditors, but they get information, presence, and a documented voice. For a supplier owed crores by a company in CIRP, that is the difference between learning the outcome after the fact and watching the process unfold.

All creditors benefit from the cost discipline. The substituted Regulation 31B means insolvency costs after the first meeting need prior CoC approval, and the running comparison of actuals against estimates keeps the RP honest. Every rupee saved in process cost is a rupee available for distribution. Creditors who have watched recoveries shrink under heavy professional and process fees should welcome this.

If you are tracking how creditor rights interact with other recovery routes, our explainers on cheque bounce under Section 138 of the NI Act and the Consumer Protection Act, 2019 are useful companions, because creditors often run parallel remedies before or alongside an IBC filing.

What it means for bidders and resolution applicants

If you are a prospective acquirer eyeing a stressed company, the 2026 changes reshape the field you are bidding into.

The biggest shift is documentation, and it cuts both ways. Because the CoC must now record written reasons on the feasibility and recoveries behind each plan, a strong bid that genuinely maximises value is more likely to be reasoned onto the record and harder to displace by a quiet preference for someone else. At the same time, the CoC’s duty to assess the adequacy of market discovery, including challenge mechanisms and re-invitation of plans, means a bidder cannot assume a first-mover advantage will simply be rubber-stamped. Expect more competitive tension, more challenge rounds, and more scrutiny of whether the process actually surfaced the best price.

The Going Concern Assessment Report helps bidders too. A report that lays out projected cash flows, working capital needs, and value-erosion risk gives a serious applicant a far clearer picture of what they are buying than the patchy disclosures of earlier years. Combined with the valuer timeline tightened by the Second Amendment 2026, where the RP must appoint two sets of registered valuers to determine fair and liquidation value within defined days, a bidder gets earlier, firmer numbers to price against.

In real estate, project-wise resolution is a genuine opportunity. A bidder can now target a single viable project rather than swallowing a developer’s entire troubled portfolio. That makes deals smaller, cleaner, and more financeable, and it lets specialist developers acquire and complete stalled towers without inheriting unrelated liabilities.

The flip side is cost discipline. With Regulation 31B tightening the leash on process spending, a resolution applicant should expect a leaner, more closely watched process, and should build its plan assumptions around a CoC that is now measuring every cost against an approved estimate.

One subtle point is worth flagging for serious applicants. The CoC’s new duty to record its reasoning on market discovery means the value of your bid is no longer the only thing being judged. The process itself is being judged. If a CoC accepts a plan without a proper challenge round or without re-inviting plans where the market clearly was not tested, that decision is now exposed, because the absence of reasoning is itself a defect on the record. For a high-conviction bidder, this is good news. It pushes the CoC toward genuine price discovery, which rewards the applicant willing to put forward the strongest number rather than the one who arrived first or shouted loudest. For a bidder hoping to slip a thin plan past a passive committee, it is bad news. The era of the quiet, unexamined approval is closing.

What it means for homebuyers

Homebuyers are the human face of real estate insolvency, and the recent reforms tilt meaningfully toward them.

The single most practical protection is Regulation 4F. If you are a buyer who has paid for your unit and met your obligations under the agreement for sale, the RP must hand over possession and facilitate registration of your unit during the resolution process, subject to CoC approval by sixty-six percent. You do not have to wait for the entire resolution to conclude before getting the keys to a flat you have already paid for. As the DSK Legal note on the homebuyer amendment explains, this is a structural change in how possession is treated mid-process.

Project-wise resolution is the second protection. Because insolvency can now be confined to the failing project, buyers in a developer’s healthy projects are insulated from the fallout of one bad tower. And bringing RERA into CoC meetings under Regulation 18(4) means the project-level regulator that homebuyers already deal with is now plugged into the insolvency table.

The Supreme Court’s insistence that the CoC act with transparency and proper application of mind in homebuyer cases, combined with the Fourth Amendment 2026’s requirement that the CoC document its plan reasoning, gives homebuyers something they often lacked: a record they can point to if a resolution plan treats them unfairly. None of this guarantees a happy ending for every stalled project. But the framework now takes the homebuyer seriously as a stakeholder rather than an afterthought.

How practitioners are reading it

The professional response has been broadly positive, with the usual caution about implementation.

The IBBI itself framed the Fourth Amendment 2026 as a transparency and efficiency measure. As reported in the Taxscan coverage of the notification, IBBI Chairperson Ravi Mittal said the amendments are designed to improve transparency, creditor confidence, and efficiency in the corporate insolvency resolution framework.

Law firms have largely welcomed the direction. The Khaitan & Co thought leadership reads the amendments as aligning the CIRP Regulations with long-standing stakeholder demands, which is a polite way of saying the IBBI is finally closing gaps that practitioners have flagged for years. The Mondaq commentary on the CoC oversight changes calls the reform a welcome refinement of CoC oversight and procedural clarity, and the Lexology analysis of the Fourth Amendment frames it around saving time, increasing transparency, and facilitating resolution.

The sharper commentary sits on the valuation and fair value questions. The India Law critique of the 2026 amendments digs into how the changes redefine fair value and what that means for how recoveries are measured, which is exactly the kind of detail that will be litigated as the new regime beds in. And the broader debate, captured well in the Bar & Bench view on the Amendment Act, is whether expanding the CoC’s commercial wisdom and adding documentation duties will actually cut delays or simply add a layer of process. That question will only be answered by how the NCLT and NCLAT handle the first wave of cases under the new rules.

Practical impact: a checklist

If you are touched by a CIRP right now, here is how the 2026 changes translate into action.

If you are a…Do this
Financial creditorInsist your CoC nominee documents reasoning on every plan under revised Reg 39; treat the minute book as your shield
Operational creditorCheck whether you fall in the 18 largest unrelated set; if so, claim your CoC seat and the information that comes with it
Resolution professionalBuild the Going Concern Assessment Report into your standard pack; get prior CoC sign-off on costs after meeting one; appoint valuers inside the Reg 27 deadline
Resolution applicantExpect challenge mechanisms and re-invitation; price against earlier, firmer valuations; consider project-wise bids in real estate
HomebuyerIf you have paid in full, push the RP on Reg 4F possession and registration; engage with RERA’s CoC presence
Bidder watching liquidation riskWatch the going concern report for value-erosion signals and the Third Amendment 2026 early dissolution and restoration routes

A word of caution that applies to every row. Regulations are amended often, and what is current today can shift in the next notification. Always work from the latest gazetted text and confirm the regulation number and its current wording before you rely on it. When you read older commentary, check whether it predates the amendment you care about. This is one area where citing a superseded provision can cost a client real money. Our guides on how to cite Indian judgments and checking whether a law is still good law walk through exactly how to verify that the authority you are relying on still stands.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the IBBI CIRP Fourth Amendment 2026 and when was it notified?

It is the IBBI (Insolvency Resolution Process for Corporate Persons) (Fourth Amendment) Regulations, 2026, notified by the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India on 8 June 2026. It amends the CIRP Regulations, 2016, focusing on Committee of Creditors composition, resolution cost approval, a Going Concern Assessment Report, and documentation of plan evaluation. Always confirm the exact gazette text before relying on any specific provision.

How does the Fourth Amendment 2026 change the Committee of Creditors?

It revises CoC composition to include the eighteen largest unrelated operational creditors, or all of them where fewer than eighteen exist. Operational creditors generally still lack the voting weight of financial creditors, but they now get a structured seat and visibility into the process they previously watched from outside.

What is the substituted Regulation 31B about?

The substituted Regulation 31B requires prior CoC approval for all insolvency resolution process costs incurred after the first CoC meeting. At each subsequent meeting, the professional must compare actual costs against the previously approved estimates, which keeps process spending in check and protects creditor recoveries.

What is a Going Concern Assessment Report?

It is a report the resolution professional must now present, setting out projected income, expenses, cash flows, working capital needs, and the risk of value erosion if the company keeps running. It helps the CoC decide whether continuing the company as a going concern still makes sense or whether value is being lost while a plan is awaited.

How do these changes affect homebuyers in real estate insolvency?

Homebuyers benefit mainly from earlier reforms read together with 2026 changes. Under Regulation 4F, a buyer who has paid in full can have possession handed over and registration facilitated during the process, subject to CoC approval by sixty-six percent. Project-wise resolution confines insolvency to the failing project, and RERA is now invited to CoC meetings without voting rights.

What is the 330-day timeline for CIRP?

Section 12 of the IBC requires CIRP to be completed within 330 days of the insolvency commencement date, including extensions and litigation time. The base period is 180 days, extendable once by up to 90 days on a sixty-six percent CoC vote. Extension beyond 330 days is allowed only in genuinely exceptional circumstances.

How many CIRP amendments have there been in 2025 and 2026?

The IBBI notified multiple CIRP amendments through 2025, including the Sixth Amendment on 14 October 2025, and at least four in 2026 by June, the latest being the Fourth Amendment 2026 on 8 June 2026, alongside the IBC (Amendment) Act, 2026. Because the rulebook changes so often, always check the latest notification and the current regulation wording before you act on it.