Industries Setup & License

Setting up an industrial / manufacturing unit in India is a multi-regulator project that begins long before the first machine is installed. The approval stack scales with the nature of the product (white / green / orange / red category), scale of investment, location (industrial estate vs. private land) and whether the activity falls in a restricted or reserved list. Many States now offer single-window clearance portals that consolidate these approvals — but the underlying statutory consents remain distinct. The typical journey includes entity formation, Udyam (MSME) registration, securing industrial land — allotment from a State industrial development corporation (e.g., MIDC, GIDC, SIPCOT, UPSIDA) or land-use conversion of private land — and an Industrial Entrepreneur Memorandum (IEM) with DPIIT, or an industrial licence under the IDR Act, 1951 for items still requiring one. Environmental approvals are central: Environmental Clearance under the EIA Notification, 2006 for scheduled industries, and Consent to Establish (CTE) followed by Consent to Operate (CTO) from the State Pollution Control Board under the Water and Air Acts. Construction and operation then require building plan sanction, Fire NOC, Factory licence under the Factories Act, 1948, power and water connections, hazardous-waste authorisation where relevant, and labour registrations (PF, ESI, contract labour). Exporters add IEC and product certification (BIS) as applicable. We act as your single industrial-setup project lead — sequencing land, environmental, factory and utility approvals, navigating State single-window portals and incentive schemes, and delivering an operational, fully-licensed unit.