The Telangana government is putting in place a centralised inspection system related to compliance inspections of industrial units by four of its departments.
It will be an online system as part of the TS-iPASS, said an Industries and Commerce Department order on the measure aimed at further improving the ease of doing business (EoDB).
Covered under the centralised system will be inspections by the departments of labour, factories, boilers and Pollution Control Board.
The scheduling of inspections will be done in an automated manner by the online system. The selection of the establishments to be inspected will be done using computerised risk assessment while allocation of inspectors will be done under the online system.
For sometime now, the officials of the Industries Department and some agencies under its ambit had been highlighting the benefits of such a centralised system for the industrial units. On their part, the representatives of industry bodies had been underscoring the need for a system under which inspections by multiple agencies is scheduled, preferably on the same day.
Noting that the government had taken several reform measures to facilitate EoDB, the order issued by Principal Secretary (Industries) Jayesh Ranjan said: “While the establishments need a friendly environment to conduct their business, they also need to conform to the laws regulating their functioning.”
The decision comes in the backdrop of the Business Reforms Action Plan for improving EoDB for 2017 communicated by the Centre’s Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP). It mandates devising a central inspection system for Labour, Factories, Boilers and the Pollution Control Board.
