Licenses Or Clearances Required To Setup / Run Industries / Enterprises Under Micro And Small Sector
Before according necessary approval for any assistance, the authority concerned demands that the entrepreneur should obtain the necessary clearances and/or licenses, as may be required as per statues from the relevant authorities relating to various Acts and rules framed thereunder. An illustrative list of such licenses/clearances vis-a-vis the issuing authorities against each category of enterprise is given below :
| Sl
No. |
Type of
Licences / clearances |
Issuing
Authority |
Type of groups of
Industries requiring license |
| A. GENERAL FOR ALL GROUP | |||
| 1 | Trade license or Trade Certificate of Enlistments | Concerned ‘ Gram Panchayat’ ,
‘ Municipality’ or ‘ Notified Authority’ |
All types/groups of industry/Trade etc. |
| 2 | Health license/Food license | Concerned/municipality | All types/groups of industries
attract health precautions |
| 3 | GST Registration | Commercial Tax Office
|
Almost every group of industries, excluding those specifically exempted. |
| 4 | Central Excise
a) Registration b) Clearance |
a) Commissioner of Central excise,
b)Asst. Commissioner, Branch Office, at the respective district |
Exclusive list not available. Illustratively, Bidi (Scale or production) plywood, chemicals, paints, paper, paper board, glass, glass bottles, containers, plastic and polymer products, m/c mfg., consumer durables, printing ink, printing m/c & its accessories, oils & fertilizers
vegetable oil, electronics. |
| 5 | Pollution Control | i) Pollution Control Board,
iii)DIC for some specified category. |
Industries falling under Special Red, Red, Orange & Green Categories (list available with DIC) |
| a) No objection certificate | |||
| b) Environment protection / | |||
| Prevention and Pollution Control – Water / Air | |||
| c) Consent | |||
| 6 | Licenses/Registration under the Factories Act, 1948, otherwise, memorandum to be filled to the central secretariat. | a)Chief Inspector of Factories/ Labour Commissioner,
b) District Inspector of Factories. |
Specified group of industries employing 10 & above with power or 20 & above without power and 50 or 100
respectively in case of small scale. |
| Sl
No. |
Type of Licences/clearances | Issuing Authority | Type of groups of Industries requiring a license |
| 7 | Employees State Insurance and Provident Fund clearances | a) Director / ESI, Grant Lane,
b)Commissioner/Asst. Commissioner Public Provident Fund. c)Employees Provident Fund Organisation, Sub-Regional |
Industries attracting the relevant provisions of the respective acts and rules framed thereunder. |
| 8 | Professional Tax | Professional Tax
Commissioner, Kolkata |
Any type/group of business
(industries/service/trade) |
| B. PRODUCT BASED | |||
| 9 | Dangerous/hazardous items
Dealing/manufacturing license |
Panchayat Samity | Industries of Chemical groups |
| 10 | Fire Licence
a) License b)No objection certificate (as per the range of use) |
a) Directorate of Fire Service, Free school Street,
b) Deptt. Of LGUD, c)District Magistrate d)Panchayat & Municipality |
Colour, Paints, Hazardous chemicals, printing ink, Paraffin, Camphor, Sulphur, Spirit, FO, LPG, Bitumen Plastic & Polymer products, Jute, paper & allied items, oils & fertilizer, vegetable oil, kerosene oil, etc. etc. |
| 11 | Food Processing Order / Licence | Food Processing & Horticulture Industries Corpn. | Fruits & Vegetable preservation activity & products out of them. |
| 12 | Drugs & Cosmetics License | a) Department / Drug Centre,
b)Drug Controller, |
Drugs & Pharmaceutical based items and cosmetics group |
| 13 | Forest License | Divisional Forest Officer | Saw Mill / Katha out of Choir Wood / Plywood veneer/wood panel products/match
box/boxes/ industrial packing case out of wood. |
| 14 | Explosive Clearance a)License
b) No objection certificate c) Clearance |
a) Controller of Explosives
b) District Authority |
a) Fire Works
b) Match Sticks c) Furnace Oil (as per the range of storing) |
| 15 | Husking / Milling license | District Controller of Food & Supply | Paddy husking Agricultural rice milling |
| 16 | Quarry Permit / Royalty | DLLRO of the District | Brick / Tiles & Mineral
Based product |
| Sl
No. |
Type of
Licences / clearances |
Issuing Authority | Type of groups of Industries requiring a license |
| C. LOCATION-BASED | |||
| 17 | Clearance under Town and country planning Act | a) Zilla Parishad
b) Notified Area Development Authority |
All industries going in for land under possession & construction for business. |
| 18 | Urban Land Ceiling Clearance | a) Sub-Divisional Officer
b) DLLRO |
Industries having excess vacant land under possession. |
| 19 | Conversion of land (Clearance) & Mutation | a) BLRO of the Block
b)DLLRO of the District c)Panchayat/Municipality |
Any industry having land in possession. |
| D. EQUIPMENT BASED | |||
| 20 | Installation of Diesel Generating set Clearance / Permission and Registration | a) Commercial Officer,
b)Inspector of District Level |
Any type/group of business (industry / service / trade) |
| 21 | Boiler Registration Certificate | Chief Inspector of Boiler | All types of industries using
Boiler |
| E. STORAGE OF E.C. | |||
| 22 | a) License
b) Permit c)No objection certificate |
a) District Controller of Food & Supply
b) Sub-Divisional Officer c)District Magistrate |
Industries using commodities under ‘ Essential Commodities Classification’ in terms of the relevant Act. |
LGUD=Local Government and Urban Development, FO=Furnace Oil, LPG=Liquid Petroleum Gas, DLLRO=District Level Land Revenue Officer, EC=Essential Commodities.