As per proviso to section 152(3) of the Companies Act, 2013 no company shall appoint or re-appoint any individual as director of the company unless he has been allotted a Director Identification Number (DIN) under section 154 or such other identification number as the Central Government may prescribe. Section 152(3) provides that every individual, intending to be appointed as director of a company shall make an application for allotment of DIN to the Central Government (Powers delegated to the Regional Director, Noida) in the prescribed e-Form DIR-3 Therefore, before submission of e-Form RUN for reservation of name, all the directors of the proposed company must ensure that they are having valid PAN based DIN and if they are not having DIN, or if it is not PAN based, they should obtain DIN or make modification in the existing DIN if any, before taking further action. However, instead of applying and obtaining separate DIN, it may also be applied simultaneously with the Form SPICe-32.