Compulsory Licences

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Private agencies providing domestic helps to households in the national capital will have to mandatorily undergo police verification to get licence from the Labour department, officials said on Saturday. These agencies have to register themselves on the e-district portal under the Delhi Private Placement Agency (Regulation) Order 2014, according to a notice issued by the office of the Labour Commissioner. The registration is without any fee and the process can be completed online. The move will not only regulate the largely unregulated placement services sector in Delhi but also do a lot of good by protecting poor men and women from other states who work in the city homes as domestic helps and do other menial jobs, officials said. According to an estimate, there are more than 20,000 placement agencies and at least five lakh domestic workers in the national capital, a majority of them coming from other states, they said. The officials said police verification will be mandatory befo

The National Commission further concluded that even a genuine and valid renewal cannot legitimise an originally counterfeit driving licence

The reunified Municipal Corporation of Delhi has implemented a uniform rate for paying fee for granting of licence for opening a new factory or its renewal, officials said on Saturday.

India is party to TRIPS, a World Trade Organization agreement that sets down minimum standards for intellectual property regulation