Civic bodies forcing MSMEs to renew trade licenses against Govt order: MIA

Mysore, August 6 (KNN) Mysore Industries Association (MIA) has alleged that few city corporations and local bodies including Mysore City Corporation are demanding and forcing industrialists to renew trade licences against the Government orders, which is unlawful.

In a release the association said the Government of Karnataka in its notification has exempted Micro, Small, Medium & Large Scale Industries established in thr State of Karnataka from taking trade licenses of Municipalities, City Corporations, Grama Panchayath’s  and other local bodies of the state.

MIA requested the industrialists not to take trade licences and said if any local body demands for that then that should be brought to its notice.

The Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 14 of 1977 in Section 353, in Sub-section (1), inserted that, all Micro small and Medium Enterprises registered / taken Udyog Aadhar under the MSMED Act 2006 with the concern District Industries Centres & large Industries who have filed Industrial Entrepreneurs Memorandum or Industrial Licence with the Secretariat of Industrial Assistance, Department of Industrial Policy and promotion, Government of India are exempted from obtaining trade license. (KNN Bureau)