Whether it is Vodafone's purchase of Hutchison Essar or Aditya Birla's acquisition of Novellis, NTT Tata Docomo or Reliance MTN, mergers in India and by Indian companies have increased and become more significant than ever before. The importance of mergers has led to greater legal scrutiny of them. One of the most significant developments in this regard has been the effect of competition law on mergers. Technically, merger is the merging of two or more businesses or companies to broaden the scope of service provision and efficient operation. Mergers are usually done to broaden the scope and scope of the business and produce at a lower price. On June 1, 2011, India joined the club of countries that have a comprehensive operational competition law. After speculation, controversies, doubts, opposition and persuasion, mergers, aggregations and acquisitions have finally been added to the Competition Law. Although the Competition Law was promulgated in January 2003, it took the government almost 8 years to include mergers in the Completion Law. This is largely due to the fact that the merger law has received enormous opposition. From the suggestion that the CCI would deal with merger clearances by delaying commercial transactions to the claim that the CCI does not have the capacity and capability to look into complex mergers, being a new competition agency. However, the motive behind all this speculation was to prevent merger law from entering competition law and hindering businesses. History shows, whether it is Canada, the US or the EU, the enforcement of competition laws has never been welcomed by big business as it has the potential to hinder profits and the ability to form cartels . However, in 2011, mergers were included in the comp...... middle of the document ......the first companies used the first form. The first form for submitting the merger application was almost discretionary. It was only required that the essential information of the operation be archived and that this did not fall into any of the categories indicated in the program and in the regulation. However, unlike speculation, this system proved to be quite effective as the competition assessment could be gauged from the fact that almost all merger declarations were voluntary and included details of the transaction and why it would not have an effect negative on competition. AAEC or adverse effect on competition is a substantial test for evaluating mergers in India. Now this discretionary scheme has proven effective because it has reduced opposition and accusations that the introduction would burden businesses or delay the application of merger control for several reasons..