Rule 54. Approval of Plans [Section-79]

Approval of plans, registration of factories and grant of license–

(1) No site shall be used for the location of a factory and no building on such site or in a factory shall be constructed, extended or taken into use as a factory or part of a factory unless previous sanction is obtained from the state government or the Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator. Online application on State Government web portal or otherwise application for such permission shall be made to the Inspector-cum-Facilitator of the region concerned at least fifteen days before he begins to occupy, or use, the premises as a factory which shall be accompanied by the following documents;

(a) Form XXVII duly filled by the applicant;

(b) The Process Flow Diagram of manufacturing process indicating safety devices, fittings and mountings on each plant and machinery, the various processes and their design conditions, supplemented by a brief description of process and safety devices in its various stages and also indicating the names of raw materials, intermediates and products with their inventories and the name of chemicals if used in the process.

(c) Plans shall be drawn to scale showing-(i) the site plan of the factory and immediate surroundings including adjacent building, hospitals, educational institutions, petrol pumps, storage of inflammable and explosive materials and other structures, roads, water sources, drains etc, and location of nearest residential area, village, town settlement with its distance from the site.; and

(ii) the detail plan, elevation and necessary cross sections of the various buildings indicating all relevant details relating to all natural lighting, ventilation and means of escape in case of fire. The Plans shall also clearly indicate the position of the plant and machines, aisles and passageways.

(iii) the site plans and detailed plans shall be submitted electronically or otherwise in legible format, which shall be prepared by any efficient software (e.g. Auto CAD etc.):

Provided that if due to technical reasons, such soft copy of detailed plans or site plans is not legible, documents drawn to suitable scale may be additionally submitted in triplicate.

(d) Replies to the questionnaires annexed to the Form - XXVII;

(e) A letter of no objection for the location of the factory from Local Authorities, Administration and Panchayat or notified area, as the case may be;

(f) A letter of no objection from Arunachal Pradesh State Pollution Control Board,

(g) A letter of no objection from Fire Department;

(h) License / NOC issued under the Petroleum Rules, 1976 for storage of petroleum as defined in the Petroleum Rules, 1976;

(i) A Letter of Land Possessing Certificate (LPC)/ Land Allotment/Land lease agreement.

(j) Any other document Chief Inspector -cum- Facilitator may require.

(k) Certificate of stability in Form XXVIII duly singed by the applicant;

(l) Duly filled Form XXIX by the applicant;

(m) Payment of license fee prescribed in Rule 56 through online payment or otherwise.

(2) If the Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator, Dy. Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator or Inspector-cum-Facilitator as the case may be, is satisfied that the plans are in consonance with the requirement of Code, he shall, subject to such conditions or such no objection certificate, as he may specify, approve them.

(3) No manufacturing process shall be started or carried on in any building, or part of a building until a Certificate of Stability of the building, or part of building in Form XXVIII signed by a person possessing the qualifications prescribed in sub-rule(4) has been delivered online or otherwise to the Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator and accepted by him. No extended portion of any factory shall be used as a part of the factory any time after the extension or any plant or machinery shall be added in any factory or brought into use as any factory, nor brought into use any time after such addition until a certificate in respect of such extension or plan has been delivered to the Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator and accepted by the Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator electronically or otherwise.

The Certificate of Stability accepted under this rule shall be valid for five years from the date of acceptance.

(4) The person signing the Form XXVIII shall possess the same qualification and experience as prescribed in the Schedule ‘E’ to Rule 53 for this purpose.

(5) No person except in the case of a building occupied by Government shall be authorized to sign a certificate of stability, who is in the employment of the owner or the builder of the building in respect of which the certificate is given.

(6) The plan of a factory shall be disposed off within ninety days including site visit, after receiving online application or otherwise at the portal of the department. The plans which are not disposed off within the said time limit shall be deemed to have been approved and license shall also be deemed to have been granted and considering such plans as approved and license as granted. The site plans approval letter and the license shall be issued by Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator immediately and Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator shall also inform the applicant electronically or otherwise.

(7) The license of the factories, whose site plans are approved within the time limit given in sub-rule (6), shall be granted on the same day, the site plan and detailed plan shall be approved and the plan letter be issued electronically or otherwise. The digitally signed license shall be issued by Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator or Deputy Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator or Inspector-cum-Facilitator of the region concerned as the case may be, who shall send the license to the applicant electronically or otherwise.