What a cloud kitchen needs is not what a trading company needs. Pick your line of business below and see the registrations that actually apply to it.
Tell us your industry and state. We will send the exact list of registrations you are required to hold.
Select your sector. Items shown in underline link through to the full filing page. Requirements vary by state, turnover and the exact nature of the operation.
Factory Licence under the Factories Act, Consent to Establish and Consent to Operate from the State Pollution Control Board, Fire NOC, and BIS certification where the product is under compulsory certification.
Mostly tax and local registrations. If you import or export, the Import Export Code is compulsory before your first consignment clears customs.
The lightest regulatory load of any sector. Most service businesses need tax registration, a local establishment registration and labour registrations once headcount grows.
RERA registration is the critical one. Promoters cannot advertise or take bookings for a covered project without it, and penalties are calculated on project cost.
The most heavily regulated sector on this list. Nothing can begin before environmental clearance and the mineral concession are both in hand.
Input trading is licence driven. Seed, fertiliser and pesticide each carry a separate licence, and holding one does not cover the others.
FSSAI is mandatory and the category depends on turnover and whether you operate across states. Manufacturing units carry factory and pollution obligations on top.
Permits are vehicle specific and route specific. A national permit is required the moment goods cross a state boundary.
Light on licensing, heavy on structure. Most of the value here is in entity choice, IP protection and export benefits rather than permits.
Department of Telecommunications licensing is mandatory and the approval cycle is long. Budget months, not weeks.
Agents and promoters both require RERA registration in each state they operate in. Operating without it is separately penalised.
The regulator depends entirely on the activity. Lending, broking, insurance and payments each sit with a different authority and none of them are quick.
Clinical establishment registration is state administered and varies widely. Anything involving pharmacy, imaging or diagnostics adds its own regulator.
The entity comes first. Most educational institutions run as a Society, Trust or Section 8 Company before any recognition can be applied for.
The one operators consistently forget is the music licence. Playing recorded music in a commercial space requires a separate public performance licence.
This sector is built on intellectual property. Registration of the underlying rights matters more here than any operating permit.
Practice is governed by the relevant professional council, and those registrations are personal to the practitioner rather than the firm.
The tabs above cover a whole sector. This narrows it to your specific business, your state and your headcount, and splits the result by which authority issues it.
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This list is indicative, generated from the answers above. What actually applies to you depends on your turnover, premises size, products, machinery and your state and municipal rules, and several of these carry exemptions for small operators. Treat it as a starting point for a conversation, not as advice to act on.
Most businesses need between three and six registrations. Tell us what you do and we will tell you exactly which.
