Trade License Service
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The origin of a Trade License (TL) links to a mandatory license required to carry out dangerous and offensive trades and also trades that have health implications. Currently from shops to street vendors to restaurants and a lot of other trades must have a TL to carry out their business.
Why is a trade license required? The intent is to ensure trades that meet the prescribed health or safety guidelines. It ensures possible risks are inspected and meet the state’s necessary quality, health and safety standards. And, over time the trade license department has evolved into a new revenue opportunity stream for the ULB and now covers different types of trades.
Who needs a trade license? This varies from one state to another. In Chennai, registered companies do not need a TL. Every state publishes a list of all trades/trade types that need to procure a TL to carry out their business.
Citizen - Citizen is the person who intends to do business and applies for a trade license with the ULB.
Clerk - Clerk is an employee in ULB whose job is to perform first-level scrutiny of any application that is reaching ULB. He/She verifies the application checks for its correctness and has the authority to ask for more information or forward to the next officer in the hierarchy or reject citing the reasons for rejection.
Revenue Inspector - The Revenue Inspector is responsible for inspecting the place where trade is operating, checks for safety, security and sanitation compliance with the applied trade type. This actor has the authority to ask the applicant to make some modifications to comply with the rules or forward to the next officer in the hierarchy or reject citing the reasons for rejection.
Revenue Officer - The Revenue Officer is responsible for all the revenue streams in the ULB and has the authority to decide whether to issue the trade licenses considering the recommendation of the revenue inspector and the clerk. He /She can issue a license or reject the applications citing the reasons for rejection.
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