Question 1

What are Gumasta licence fees?

Accepted Answer

The dedicated Sikkim Shops and Commercial Establishment Act, 1983 remains in force (the Labour Department's own site references a decriminalization notification against it dated 01 July 2026), and 'Shops and Commercial Establishments' are separately listed as a Scheduled Employment under the newer, broader Sikkim Labour (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 2021, which requires registration/licensing of establishments generally. Threshold: Under the 2021 Act: every establishment, principal employer or owner, and every Service Provider/Sub-Service Provider who employed labourers on any day of the preceding 12 months (no minimum headcount stated). The 1983 Act's own threshold could not be read (its PDF was unreadable at source). Fee basis: Registration/licensing fees are set by rules/notification 'as may be prescribed' (Section 34 of the 2021 Act) rather than fixed in the Act itself; the specific rupee figure was not located. Renewal: Under the 2021 Act, an establishment/Service Provider licence is valid 1 year or until completion of work, whichever is earlier (Section 13(3)); renewal application due 30 days before expiry, with a late-renewal fine of Rs 50/day in excess of the ordinary fee (Section 16). Statute: Sikkim Shops and Commercial Establishment Act, 1983 and Rules, 1984; overlapping with the Sikkim Labour (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 2021 (Act No. 11 of 2021) Read the full text of the 2021 Act at source (Sikkim Government Gazette Extraordinary No. 159, 29 June 2021, via the Labour Department's own document repository). It repeals the Sikkim Labour Protection Act, 2005 and introduces registration of establishments/Service Providers/Sub-Service Providers/individual workers, annual licensing, and penalties (fine up to Rs 10,000 or imprisonment up to 3 months for failure to register/license, doubled on repeat offence; compounding minimum Rs 2,500). Establishments employing 50+ workers must also provide transport/transport allowance and (if 50+ female workers) creche facilities under the 2021 Act's Section 20.

Question 2

Shops & Establishment Registration — Assam

Accepted Answer

Applies to all shops, commercial establishments, and places of public entertainment or amusement in the whole of Assam. Threshold: Every shop, commercial establishment and entertainment/amusement establishment must register; the registration fee is slabbed by number of employees and by category (shop, commercial establishment, hotel/restaurant, multiplex), from establishments with no employees up to 51+ employees. Fee basis: slab by number of employees and establishment category Slabs: Shops with no employees — INR 300; Shops with 1-3 employees — INR 1000; Shops with 10-20 employees — INR 4000; Shops with 51+ employees — INR 20000; Commercial establishments with 51+ employees — INR 20000; Hotels/restaurants (up to 3-star) — INR 10000; Multiplexes with 20+ employees — INR 25000 Renewal: Annual (calendar year); auto-renewal facility available via the EODB portal Deadline: Within 30 days of commencing business (new establishments) Statute: The Assam Shops and Establishments Act, 1971 (as amended, most recently by the Assam Shops and Establishments (Amendment) Act, 2025) Renewal fees mirror the registration fee slabs. The fee table read at source lists selected employee-count categories; the full published table has more granular bands than shown here.

Question 3

Shops & Establishment Registration — Haryana

Accepted Answer

Every shop and commercial establishment in Haryana registers with the Labour Department; the department's own fee table has an explicit slab for an establishment owned and managed by the shopkeeper with no employees at all, so there is no minimum-employee threshold for registration. Threshold: No minimum employee count for registration; the fee slab depends on the nature of the business and on whether 10 or more employees are engaged. Fee basis: registration fee for a 3-year certificate, slabbed by nature of business (the department's own file states: 'The fees to be paid for the grant of a certificate of registration depends upon the nature of business') Slabs: Starred hotels, cinema houses, banks, insurance companies, financial institutions and/or Information Technology and Information Technology Enabled Establishments and telecommunication establishments employing 10 or more employees — INR 5000; Nursing homes, privately managed educational institutions/universities and petrol pumps — INR 1000; Workshops, automobile service stations (not covered under the Factories Act, 1948), computer training centres, shorthand and type institutions, health & fitness clubs, clinics, medical laboratories, restaurants, un-starred hotels, and/or all establishments employing 10 or more employees — INR 500; All shops and commercial establishments not covered under the above three categories and employing fewer than 10 employees — INR 300; All shops and commercial establishments owned and/or managed by the shopkeeper himself/herself and not employing any employee — INR 100 Renewal: Registration certificate is granted for 3 years; the department's fee table is expressed as a 'Registration fee for 3 years'. Statute: Shops and Commercial Establishments Act 1958 (as named on the Labour Department's own registration page) The fee slabs were read directly from the Labour Department's own fee-structure spreadsheet at storage.hrylabour.gov.in (linked from.gov.in/shops/front/shop_terms), which the previous session could not parse.

What are Gumasta licence fees?

Shops & Establishment Registration — Sikkim

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