Question 1

What are factory licence fees, and is there a fee chart?

Accepted Answer

Factory registration and licensing under the Factories Act, 1948 and the Tamil Nadu Factories Rules, 1950 is administered by the Directorate of Industrial Safety and Health. The licence fee is a published matrix of total installed horse power (inclusive of mobile equipment) against the maximum number of persons to be employed on any day during the year. Threshold: Factories in which 10 or more workers are employed and power is used in the manufacturing process, and factories in which 20 or more workers are employed without using power, are registered under the Act. Jurisdiction is split by size: factories employing 250 or fewer workers fall to the Joint Director of Industrial Safety and Health, above 250 and up to 1000 to the Additional Director. Fee basis: Licence fee payable in rupees, from a matrix of total horse power installed inclusive of mobile equipment against the maximum number of persons to be employed on any day during the year. Representative cells only; the published matrix is 12 power bands by 11 worker bands. Head of account 2230 Labour and employment / 104 fees realized under Factories Act / AA Licence Fees (D.P. Code 0230 00 104 AA 0008). Slabs: Nil horse power, up to 9 persons — INR 400; Nil horse power, up to 100 persons — INR 1600; Nil horse power, above 10,000 persons — INR 60000; Up to 10 horse power, up to 9 persons — INR 800; Up to 10 horse power, up to 250 persons — INR 5400; Above 10 up to 50 horse power, up to 9 persons — INR 1200; Above 50 up to 129 horse power, up to 100 persons — INR 6000; Above 129 up to 250 horse power, up to 250 persons — INR 24000; Above 250 up to 500 horse power, up to 500 persons — INR 48000; Above 500 up to 1000 horse power, up to 1000 persons — INR 108000; Above 1000 up to 2000 horse power, up to 2000 persons — INR 132000; Above 5000 up to 7500 horse power, up to 5000 persons — INR 168000; Above 7500 up to 10000 horse power, above 10,000 persons — INR 204000; Above 10000 horse power, above 10,000 persons — INR 216000; Transfer of licence on change of occupier - flat fee — INR 50 Renewal: The licence may be renewed for one year or up to a maximum of 5 years at a time, with fees payable according to the number of years applied for. Renewal documents must reach the Deputy Director of Industrial Safety and Health for the area before 31st October. Deadline: Renewal papers must be received by the Deputy Director of Industrial Safety and Health before 31st October each year. An additional fee is payable for belated submission (as amended by G.O. Ms. No. 979, Labour Department, dated 4th May 1984). Statute: Factories Act, 1948 and Tamil Nadu Factories Rules, 1950; licence fee schedule notified by G.O.Ms. No. 53, Labour and Employment (M2) Department, dated 12th April 2012 The previous session recorded dish.tn.gov.in as a JavaScript-rendered homepage with no navigable content; that is true of the homepage, but the Directorate publishes its Citizen's Charter as a text-layer PDF at the URL above, and the full licence fee SCHEDULE under G.O.Ms. No. 53 dated 12 April 2012 was read from it. Only 14 of the 132 matrix cells are reproduced. Also read there and not reproduced as slabs: pressure vessel examination fees under Rule 56-B (Rs 400 per plant irrespective of size, Rs 1,000 per plant up to 4 Kgf/sqcm, Rs 2,000 per plant above 4 Kgf/sqcm, Rs 1,000 irrespective of size for one class, Rs 4,000 per plant or vessel for another), and a Rs 2 court fee stamp required on the renewal application.

Question 2

Factory licence — Maharashtra

Accepted Answer

Registration of the factory and grant of a licence is required of the occupier or manager of every factory in Maharashtra. Application is in Form 1 to the Chief Inspector; the licence issues in Form 4 and may be granted for a period not exceeding ten years. Threshold: Every factory within the scope of the Act, and any establishment to which the Act is applied by a notification under section 85 (which must apply within 30 days of that notification). The fee matrix itself starts at 'Nil' horsepower and 'up to 9' persons, so there is no fee-free band. Fee basis: PER YEAR of the licence period. The fee is a matrix: for ordinary factories (Schedule A) it is set by the quantity of horsepower installed crossed with the maximum number of persons to be employed on any day during the year; for power generating stations (Schedule B) by generating capacity in megawatts crossed with the number of workers. Where a licence is granted or renewed for a period of one year or more but not exceeding ten years, the fee payable PER YEAR is at these same rates. CONCESSIONS: for cotton ginning and pressing, gur, jarda (tobacco processing), cashewnut, groundnut decorticating factories and rice mills that do not work for more than 180 days in the aggregate in a calendar year, the fee is HALF the amounts below, subject to a minimum of rupees five; and for any other factory working part of the year and commencing work on or after 1 July, the fee charged for the first time is likewise HALF, subject to a minimum of rupees five. Any fraction of a rupee below fifty paise is ignored and fifty paise or more is rounded up to the next complete rupee. Slabs: Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - Nil H.P. installed - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year up to 9 — INR 350; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - Nil H.P. installed - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 10 to 50 — INR 750; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - Nil H.P. installed - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 51 to 150 — INR 3500; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - Nil H.P. installed - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 151 to 250 — INR 5250; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - Nil H.P. installed - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 251 to 500 — INR 10500; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - Nil H.P. installed - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 501 to 1000 — INR 21000; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - Nil H.P. installed - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 1001 to 2500 — INR 42000; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - Nil H.P. installed - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 2501 to 4000 — INR 63000; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - Nil H.P. installed - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 4001 and above — INR 84000; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed up to 10 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year up to 9 — INR 700; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed up to 10 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 10 to 50 — INR 2250; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed up to 10 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 51 to 150 — INR 7000; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed up to 10 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 151 to 250 — INR 10500; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed up to 10 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 251 to 500 — INR 15750; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed up to 10 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 501 to 1000 — INR 31500; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed up to 10 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 1001 to 2500 — INR 63000; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed up to 10 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 2501 to 4000 — INR 84000; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed up to 10 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 4001 and above — INR 105000; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 10 but not above 50 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year up to 9 — INR 1050; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 10 but not above 50 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 10 to 50 — INR 3750; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 10 but not above 50 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 51 to 150 — INR 10500; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 10 but not above 50 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 151 to 250 — INR 15750; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 10 but not above 50 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 251 to 500 — INR 21000; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 10 but not above 50 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 501 to 1000 — INR 42000; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 10 but not above 50 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 1001 to 2500 — INR 78750; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 10 but not above 50 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 2501 to 4000 — INR 96250; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 10 but not above 50 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 4001 and above — INR 115500; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 50 but not above 100 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year up to 9 — INR 2800; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 50 but not above 100 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 10 to 50 — INR 5250; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 50 but not above 100 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 51 to 150 — INR 15750; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 50 but not above 100 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 151 to 250 — INR 21000; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 50 but not above 100 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 251 to 500 — INR 31500; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 50 but not above 100 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 501 to 1000 — INR 52500; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 50 but not above 100 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 1001 to 2500 — INR 94500; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 50 but not above 100 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 2501 to 4000 — INR 105000; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 50 but not above 100 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 4001 and above — INR 126000; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 100 but not above 500 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year up to 9 — INR 6300; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 100 but not above 500 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 10 to 50 — INR 10500; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 100 but not above 500 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 51 to 150 — INR 31500; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 100 but not above 500 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 151 to 250 — INR 42000; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 100 but not above 500 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 251 to 500 — INR 52500; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 100 but not above 500 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 501 to 1000 — INR 78750; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 100 but not above 500 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 1001 to 2500 — INR 105000; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 100 but not above 500 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 2501 to 4000 — INR 126000; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 100 but not above 500 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 4001 and above — INR 147000; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 500 but not above 1000 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year up to 9 — INR 12250; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 500 but not above 1000 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 10 to 50 — INR 22500; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 500 but not above 1000 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 51 to 150 — INR 42000; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 500 but not above 1000 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 151 to 250 — INR 57750; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 500 but not above 1000 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 251 to 500 — INR 68250; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 500 but not above 1000 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 501 to 1000 — INR 105000; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 500 but not above 1000 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 1001 to 2500 — INR 126000; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 500 but not above 1000 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 2501 to 4000 — INR 147000; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 500 but not above 1000 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 4001 and above — INR 168000; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 1000 but not above 2000 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year up to 9 — INR 17500; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 1000 but not above 2000 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 10 to 50 — INR 28500; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 1000 but not above 2000 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 51 to 150 — INR 57750; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 1000 but not above 2000 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 151 to 250 — INR 68250; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 1000 but not above 2000 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 251 to 500 — INR 84000; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 1000 but not above 2000 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 501 to 1000 — INR 115500; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 1000 but not above 2000 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 1001 to 2500 — INR 147000; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 1000 but not above 2000 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 2501 to 4000 — INR 168000; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 1000 but not above 2000 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 4001 and above — INR 189000; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 2000 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year up to 9 — INR 24500; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 2000 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 10 to 50 — INR 49500; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 2000 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 51 to 150 — INR 68250; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 2000 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 151 to 250 — INR 84000; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 2000 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 251 to 500 — INR 115500; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 2000 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 501 to 1000 — INR 147000; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 2000 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 1001 to 2500 — INR 168000; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 2000 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 2501 to 4000 — INR 189000; Schedule A (all factories except power generating stations and electrical sub-stations) - H.P. installed above 2000 - maximum number of persons employed on any day during the year from 4001 and above — INR 210000; Schedule B (power generating stations) - Capacity up to 20 MW - number of workers up to 100 — INR 4200; Schedule B (power generating stations) - Capacity up to 20 MW - number of workers from 101 to 500 — INR 6300; Schedule B (power generating stations) - Capacity up to 20 MW - number of workers from 501 to 1000 — INR 10500; Schedule B (power generating stations) - Capacity up to 20 MW - number of workers over 1000 — INR 15750; Schedule B (power generating stations) - Capacity over 20 MW and up to 50 MW - number of workers up to 100 — INR 5950; Schedule B (power generating stations) - Capacity over 20 MW and up to 50 MW - number of workers from 101 to 500 — INR 9450; Schedule B (power generating stations) - Capacity over 20 MW and up to 50 MW - number of workers from 501 to 1000 — INR 15750; Schedule B (power generating stations) - Capacity over 20 MW and up to 50 MW - number of workers over 1000 — INR 21000; Schedule B (power generating stations) - Capacity over 50 MW and up to 100 MW - number of workers up to 100 — INR 8750; Schedule B (power generating stations) - Capacity over 50 MW and up to 100 MW - number of workers from 101 to 500 — INR 12250; Schedule B (power generating stations) - Capacity over 50 MW and up to 100 MW - number of workers from 501 to 1000 — INR 21000; Schedule B (power generating stations) - Capacity over 50 MW and up to 100 MW - number of workers over 1000 — INR 26250; Schedule B (power generating stations) - Capacity over 100 MW and up to 250 MW - number of workers up to 100 — INR 12250; Schedule B (power generating stations) - Capacity over 100 MW and up to 250 MW - number of workers from 101 to 500 — INR 15750; Schedule B (power generating stations) - Capacity over 100 MW and up to 250 MW - number of workers from 501 to 1000 — INR 26250; Schedule B (power generating stations) - Capacity over 100 MW and up to 250 MW - number of workers over 1000 — INR 31500; Schedule B (power generating stations) - Capacity over 250 MW and up to 500 MW - number of workers up to 100 — INR 15750; Schedule B (power generating stations) - Capacity over 250 MW and up to 500 MW - number of workers from 101 to 500 — INR 26250; Schedule B (power generating stations) - Capacity over 250 MW and up to 500 MW - number of workers from 501 to 1000 — INR 31500; Schedule B (power generating stations) - Capacity over 250 MW and up to 500 MW - number of workers over 1000 — INR 36750; Schedule B (power generating stations) - Capacity over 500 MW and up to 750 MW - number of workers up to 100 — INR 24500; Schedule B (power generating stations) - Capacity over 500 MW and up to 750 MW - number of workers from 101 to 500 — INR 24500; Schedule B (power generating stations) - Capacity over 500 MW and up to 750 MW - number of workers from 501 to 1000 — INR 36750; Schedule B (power generating stations) - Capacity over 500 MW and up to 750 MW - number of workers over 1000 — INR 42000; Schedule B (power generating stations) - Capacity over 750 MW and up to 1000 MW - number of workers up to 100 — INR 24500; Schedule B (power generating stations) - Capacity over 750 MW and up to 1000 MW - number of workers from 101 to 500 — INR 28000; Schedule B (power generating stations) - Capacity over 750 MW and up to 1000 MW - number of workers from 501 to 1000 — INR 42000; Schedule B (power generating stations) - Capacity over 750 MW and up to 1000 MW - number of workers over 1000 — INR 52500; Schedule B (power generating stations) - Capacity over 1000 MW - number of workers up to 100 — INR 28000; Schedule B (power generating stations) - Capacity over 1000 MW - number of workers from 101 to 500 — INR 31500; Schedule B (power generating stations) - Capacity over 1000 MW - number of workers from 501 to 1000 — INR 52500; Schedule B (power generating stations) - Capacity over 1000 MW - number of workers over 1000 — INR 63000 Renewal: A licence may be granted or renewed for a period not exceeding TEN YEARS, with the fee payable per year at the Schedule rates. The Chief Inspector will not renew the licence of a non-hazardous factory unless all the conditions subject to which it was issued have been complied with. Deadline: The renewal application in Form 1 must REACH the Chief Inspector (or authorised Deputy Chief Inspector) NOT LATER THAN TWO MONTHS BEFORE the date the licence is due to expire. Where a factory commences work on or after 1 November in any year, the renewal application must be made on or before the following 1 January. LATE RENEWAL carries graded additional fees as a percentage of the renewal fee: delay up to one month 5 per cent; up to two months 10 per cent; up to three months 15 per cent; up to four months 20 per cent; up to five months and above 25 per cent. Statute: The Factories Act, 1948 and the Maharashtra Factories Rules, 1963 - rule 5 and the Schedules attached to it (Schedule A substituted by Government Notification dated 5 June 2012, MGG Pt.I-L Ext. 5.6.2012, with effect from 1 January 2013; Schedule B substituted by Government Notification dated 4 April 2015, MGG Pt.I-L Ext. 8.4.2015) UPGRADED FROM INDICATIVE TO VERIFIED, WITH THE COMPLETE FEE MATRIX. The earlier record's finding that no fee schedule could be found is superseded. The updated consolidated text of the Maharashtra Factories Rules, 1963 was retrieved instead through the India Code DSpace API on indiacode.gov.in (item c224c371-6fdd-4dbf-9b5c-90d6629e24c8, extracted text 100,072 bytes) and read in full. ALL 72 CELLS of Schedule A and ALL 32 CELLS of Schedule B are transcribed above, together with the Schedule C provisos, rule 5 (application and fees), rule 6 (grant, Form 4), rule 8 (renewal, the two-month advance deadline and the graded late-fee table) and rule 8-A (rounding).

Question 3

Factory licence — Telangana

Accepted Answer

Factory registration, plan approval and licensing in Telangana are administered online through the Factories Portal run by the Directorate of Factories. Registration is triggered by worker count and the use of power. Threshold: Premises where ten or more workers are working, or were working on any day of the preceding twelve months, and in any part of which a manufacturing process is carried on with the aid of power; OR premises where twenty or more workers are working, or were working on any day of the preceding twelve months, and in any part of which a manufacturing process is carried on without the aid of power; OR any premises declared a factory by State Government notification. Fee basis: The licence fee is paid for the calendar year and annual licence fees may be paid online for up to 10 years at a time, but the Factories Portal publishes no rate table or fee calculator output on any page reached, so no rupee figure is recorded. Renewal: The licence fee payment is for the calendar year; annual licence fees for up to 10 years may be paid online in one transaction. Statute: Factories Act, 1948 and A.P. Factories Rules, 1950 (as applicable to Telangana) The previous session recorded 'no authority URL could be confirmed'; the correct host is tgfactories.cgg.gov.in (the older tsfactories.cgg.gov.in also answers). No rupee fee is recorded because the portal publishes none: fees are computed inside the logged-in application. Online services confirmed there: new and revised factory plan approval, grant/amendment/transfer of licences, payment of annual licence fees up to 10 years, a single integrated annual return covering both the Factories and Labour departments, and online inspection communications.

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