Served from Bengaluru
Debt collection agency in Gujarat — B2B receivables, recovery and enforcement for businesses owed by Gujarat companies.
Gujarat is India's most manufacturing-intensive state by many measures, and its companies fall under the NCLT Ahmedabad bench.
Served from Bengaluru
Gujarat matters, run from our head office
Practitioners and field collectors travel to Gujarat for on-the-ground work. Legal matters run through advocates at the NCLT Ahmedabad bench and the local commercial courts.
+91 80 6824 8827 · info@kenstonecapital.inEvery debtor validated before anyone spends a day on it
Every action on record on our collection platform
Nothing filed without your written approval
Three stages, in Gujarat
What is different about Gujarat
The forum
The NCLT Ahmedabad bench covers the whole of Gujarat along with Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, and the Gujarat High Court sits at Ahmedabad. Commercial suits are filed at the commercial court for the district where the cause of action arises — Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot and Ahmedabad each have their own.
If you are a registered MSME
A supplier registered on Udyam as a micro or small enterprise has a route the rest of the market does not: section 15 of the MSMED Act makes payment due in 45 days, and sections 16 to 18 let the supplier refer the unpaid invoice to a Micro and Small Enterprises Facilitation Council instead of filing suit. Interest runs at three times the RBI bank rate, compounded monthly, and a buyer who wants to challenge the award must first deposit 75 per cent of it. Traders are excluded; the registration must pre-date the supply. Gujarat has been decentralising from a single council at Gandhinagar to regional councils at Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot and Bhavnagar; a supplier should confirm the current seat before filing.
The debtors
The debtor base here is chemicals and dyes, textiles and man-made fabric, diamonds and jewellery, pharmaceuticals, ceramics at Morbi, brass at Jamnagar, engineering and auto assembly, petrochemicals and ports. The commercial belt runs through the GIDC estates across Naroda, Vatva, Sachin, Pandesara, Makarpura, Nandesari, Shapar-Veraval, Metoda, Ankleshwar, Vapi and Jamnagar.
What we see in Gujarat
Gujarat's commercial culture is fast, personal and lightly papered, and that cuts both ways for a creditor. Deals close on a call, which is why the order came; terms were never written, which is why the recovery is hard. The state's saving grace is that cheque-based settlement remains common, and a dishonoured cheque opens a route under section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act that an open invoice never will.
How we work a Gujarat file
The same six steps on every account, whether it is one invoice or a book. What changes by city is the forum and the ground work, not the method.
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Intake and validation
Before anyone spends a day on your file, every debtor entity is checked: is it still trading, is it the entity that actually contracted with you, and is there anything to recover from. Where a Gujarat debtor has ceased operating we say so and recommend a write-off — which earns us nothing. That is the point.
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A named practitioner, not a queue
The file is allocated to one practitioner who owns it end to end. You deal with the person working your accounts, not with whoever answers the phone.
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Contact, on record
Every call, every promise to pay and every reminder is recorded on our collection management platform. When a promise breaks, the next step follows from the record rather than from someone's memory — which is what makes escalation a step rather than a fresh start.
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Field work where it is warranted
Practitioners and field collectors travel to Gujarat for on-the-ground work, including GIDC estates across Naroda, Vatva and Sachin. A field visit is a decision we justify to you, not a line item we add by default.
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The escalation decision, stated honestly
We tell you when a claim is not worth enforcing, and why. Where it is worth enforcing, we tell you which route the facts support — a demand notice, section 138 where a cheque has bounced, a summary suit, or a section 9 petition at the NCLT Ahmedabad bench — and what each would cost and take.
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Nothing filed without your written approval
No notice goes out and no matter is filed in your name until you have approved it in writing. The advocate's fee and the court fees are stated separately, before you decide.
What it costs. Recovery is charged as a success fee — a percentage of what is actually recovered, and nothing if nothing is recovered. The DSO Reduction Programme is priced separately, as a seat-based monthly fee. Enforcement is priced case by case, with the advocate's fee and the court or tribunal fees stated as separate lines before you approve anything.
A success fee on its own rewards an agency for working your easy accounts and letting the hard ones go quiet. How recovery is priced, and the three things we do that earn us nothing →
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Questions from Gujarat businesses
Do you have an office in Gujarat?
No. Kenstone Capital is headquartered in Bengaluru and serves Gujarat from there. Practitioners and field collectors travel for on-the-ground work, and legal matters are run by advocates from our screened network at the NCLT Ahmedabad bench and the local commercial courts. We say this plainly because a debtor will ask, and the answer does not change what we can do.
Where would a Section 9 petition against a Gujarat company actually be heard?
The NCLT Ahmedabad bench covers the whole of Gujarat along with Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, and the Gujarat High Court sits at Ahmedabad. Commercial suits are filed at the commercial court for the district where the cause of action arises — Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot and Ahmedabad each have their own.
We are a registered MSME supplier in Gujarat. Is there a faster route than a suit?
A supplier registered on Udyam as a micro or small enterprise has a route the rest of the market does not: section 15 of the MSMED Act makes payment due in 45 days, and sections 16 to 18 let the supplier refer the unpaid invoice to a Micro and Small Enterprises Facilitation Council instead of filing suit. Interest runs at three times the RBI bank rate, compounded monthly, and a buyer who wants to challenge the award must first deposit 75 per cent of it. Traders are excluded; the registration must pre-date the supply. Gujarat has been decentralising from a single council at Gandhinagar to regional councils at Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot and Bhavnagar; a supplier should confirm the current seat before filing.
Discuss your receivables
Tell us where you are on the curve. A practitioner — not a sales desk — reads every enquiry and replies within one working day.