Sri Vijaya Puram, Oct. 8: The District Industries Centre, Department of Industries is the Nodal Agency for implementation of MSMED Act throughout the Union Territory of Andaman & Nicobar Islands. The Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises has recently enacted Udyam Registration as part of facilitating the Ease of Doing Business initiatives and reduced the transaction time and cost for the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.

Under this provision, all the existing enterprises registered with the District Industries Centre, Department of Industries, Sri Vijaya Puram under various registration schemes such as SSI, Entrepreneurs Memorandums, Udyog Aadhaar Memorandum etc are required to reregister under Udyam Registration.

As per MSMED Act 2006, 'Enterprise' means an Industrial undertaking or a business concern or any other establishment, by whatever name called, engaged in the manufacture or production of goods, in any manner, pertaining to any industry specified in the First Schedule to the Industries (Development and Regulation) Act, 1951 or engaged in providing or rendering of any service or services.

The Udyam Registration is not applicable for proposed units, it is only for re-registration of existing enterprises and those ventures/activities which have commenced commercial production or services. Besides, it is to clarify that except the Governmental Udyam Registration Portal (https://udyamregistration.gov.in), no other private portal is authorized to provide Udyam Registration. This is a free service provided by the Ministry of MSME, Govt. of India. No private agency or person has been authorized to do MSME registration.

For more, the needy entrepreneurs may visit Udyam Seva Kendra of District Industries Centre, Udyog Parisar, Middle Point or call over phone no 03192-232819/232601.