The Government of Maharashtra on August 14, 2023, published the Maharashtra Industry, Trade and Investment Facilitation Act, 2023 to create an effective Single Window System for the delivery of services related to issuing of permissions required for establishing and operating industries
This Act aims to develop an ecosystem to ensure Ease of Doing Business including grievance redressal mechanisms in the State.
This shall be deemed to have come into force on July 03, 2023.
The following has been stated namely: -
• It states that An entrepreneur or investor or any other person duly authorized by entrepreneur or investor, desiring to set up a new industrial undertaking or continuing operation of an existing industrial undertaking in the State, may make an application to obtain such permissions required therefore under the relevant law as the State Government may by notification in the Official Gazette specify, in electronic form, through the Single Window System.
• It states that The Empowered Committee shall have the following powers, namely:—
(a) to consider and dispose of applications for permission under any relevant law in cases where the Competent Authority has failed to process and dispose of such applications, within the specified time limit;
(b) to invite any officer or expert as it deems necessary, to participate in the meetings of the Empowered Committee
(c) to ask for the reason for the delay in the disposal of the application or rejection of the application and to call for necessary information and to require the personal appearance of the concerned Competent Authority;
(d) to appoint any officer to inquire into the reason for the delay in the disposal of applications by the Competent Authority or the grievances raised by the applicant.
• It states that The Maharashtra Industry, Trade and Investment Facilitation Cell (MAITRI) shall be the Nodal Agency for Single Window System in Maharashtra, for the purposes of this Act.
• The inspections under the provisions of relevant law by the concerned authorities shall, as far as practicable, be conducted jointly, based on random selection.
• It further states that No agency or authority of the Government or any local authority, including any functionaries thereunder, shall disclose to any other
• The entrepreneur or investor or to a person not duly authorized, any information forming the intellectual property of the entrepreneur or investor without the consent of such an entrepreneur or investor.
[Notification No. XXXIV OF 2023]
