Delicensed industry

Government has been laying great stress on simplifying the industrial licensing policy and procedures during the last few years. A list of 24 industries was announced in November 1975 in respect of which no industrial licence was required if certain conditions were fulfilled. The policy of Delicensing of Industries, as such, received accelerated impetus when a list of 25 industries was announced on 16.3.85. A few more industries have been added to this list subsequently.

The policy of Delicensing of Industries has had enthusiastic acceptance by the industry within the short span of about 2 years. The whole-hearted acceptance by the industry can be judged by the fact that more than 150 entrepreneurs are trying to take its advantage every month. The trend of registrations accorded by the Secretariat for Industrial Approvals so far is a clear indication that delicensing of industries is the most liberalised simplification introduced to the licens ing policy and procedures in recent times.

The scheme of seeking registration with the S.I.A. has a very few simple ingredients. Howsoever simple a Government scheme may be, a scheme is a scheme after all. It has to be understood properly before one can apply it to one's advantage.

It is quite obvious that before an entrepreneur thinks of setting up an industrial unit, he has to seek Government's approval, permission or registration. Registration of his scheme with the S.I.A. serves this pur pose for the types of industrial undertakings covered by it. For this purpose the entrepreneur must know the essentials of the scheme which are neither cumbersome nor involved. He must determine broadly the type of the organisation to which the entrepreneur would belong ulti mately, the type of industry that he wants to set up, the location selected for the project, and the nature of the industry, involving pollution, hazardous processes etc.

An attempt has been made to present a comprehensive picture of all the facets of the policy and scheme. Each aspect is dealt with in an exclusive chapter. The subjects and coverage of the chapters are so arranged that the entrepreneurs would find all their points adequately clarified and conveniently stated. An exhaustive chapter has also been added enumerating the capacities approved for each item of manufacture covered by delicensing of industries. Special effort has been made to clarify the various items of information sought in the application for registration of the project with the S.I.A.