Despite govt order, K'taka MSMEs still being asked to take trade licences

Mysore, Sep 10 (KNN) Few City Corporations and local bodies including Mysore City Corporation has been demanding  industrialists to take or renew trade licence against the Government order of exempting Micro, Small, Medium & Large Scale Industries established in the State of Karnataka from taking trade licenses of Municipalities, City Corporations, Grama Panchayath’s and other local bodies of the state.

Talking to KNN, Suresh Kumar Jain, General Secretary of  Mysore Industries Association (MIA) said that government had assured KASSIA and other industry associations including MIA, the Karnataka Government in its Special State Gazette Notification No.1741 dated 23.12.2015 has exempted MSME & Large Scale Industries in Karnataka from taking trade licenses.

However, Jain said that the situation is slowly improving now and most of the authorities are not demanding many documents.

He further explained that 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 concerned 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 (DIPP), are exempted from obtaining trade license.

“We have requested the industrialists not to take trade licenses and if any local body demands then it should be brought to the notice of Mysore Industries Association or Karnataka Small Scale Industries Association (KASSIA) Bangalore,” he added. (KNN Bureau)