Recognised startups may self-certify compliance across nine labour laws and three environmental laws through a simple online procedure. For labour laws no inspection is carried out for three to five years unless a credible and verifiable written complaint is filed and approved by a senior officer.
Cheap to file, expensive to get wrong. A lapsed or incorrect self-declaration is worse than never having filed one, because it is now a false statement on record.
This benefit is only available to recognised startups. If you do not hold recognition yet we handle both in sequence, and you pay the verification fee only once. See DPIIT Recognition →
No. You remain fully bound by the law. What changes is the inspection regime. You are certifying your own compliance rather than waiting for a routine inspection to verify it.
A Central Pollution Control Board classification for the least polluting industries. Startups in the white category can self-certify environmental compliance, with only random checks carried out.
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