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Single-Window Industrial Clearance Portals by State: What Each Actually Covers

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22 October 2026 · 6 min read · by Secured Engineers Editorial Team

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A state single-window portal is a shared front door for industrial approvals, not a single approval. Each state decides which departments are connected. Uttar Pradesh's Nivesh Mitra lists fire, factory and pollution board services; Rajasthan's Rajnivesh list we read has no pollution consent at all. So list every approval your plant needs, then test each one against the portal's own services list.

What did each state portal list when we read it?

We read each portal's own pages on 22 October 2026. The table records what the portal itself shows, not what its ministers or press notes claim. Where a portal could not be read, the table says so.

State and portal	What its own pages show	What we did not find or could not read
Uttar Pradesh: Nivesh Mitra	A live-services list dated 19 October 2026 with 257 services, including pollution board Consent to Establish and Operate, UP Fire Services NOC before construction and completion NOC, Labour department factory plan approval, licence and boiler registration, and Electrical Safety drawing approval and initial inspection of HV installations	A notice that some services are not on version 3.0 and must be filed on version 2.0. The CPCB battery, plastic and e-waste registrations are filed on the CPCB portals directly. No PESO item in the list
Rajasthan: Rajnivesh	195 services across 18 departments, including factory building plan approval, factory licence auto-renewal, CEIG drawing approval, Regulation 45 energisation, fire NOC under Local Self Government, land conversion and DISCOM connection services	No pollution board consent, environment or PESO entry in the services list. The building-plan pre-check is on a separate domain
Gujarat: Investor Facilitation Portal	One-stop information pages listing 20 pre-establishment approvals with department and a stated period, from GIDC land allotment and building plans to fire NOC, factory plan approval, electrical installation certification and the pollution board's Consent to Establish; a pre-operation list adds factory licence, boilers and Consent to Operate	The lists are information pages. Which items accept an application through the portal's Common Application Form was not clear from the pages we could read
Maharashtra: MAITRI	176 services across 15 departments, a Know Your Approvals wizard and a page to verify a permission	The service-by-service list loads dynamically, so we did not read the department lists
Telangana: TG-iPASS	An Act (Act 3 of 2014) with self-certification, time limits from 1 to 30 days, a single query round within three days, and a stated aim of bringing all departments involved in setting up and operating an enterprise under the system	The approvals-covered sheet says all state approvals are covered but names none; it lists only central ministries with counts, so no state item could be checked
Tamil Nadu: state single-window portal	We reached no primary page that lists its services. The DISH charter shows plan approval and the licence handled by DISH, and a 2017 order moved Forms 1 and 2 to a DISH online portal	Which approvals the single window carries, and whether DISH filings go through it, was not verified
Karnataka: Single Window under the Industries (Facilitation) Act	A 2026 amendment bill, passed by the Assembly, defines a one-stop digital platform and says no parallel offline mode for onboarded services; it also adds the Water, Air and Environment (Protection) Acts to a definitions clause	Whether the bill is law, and which departments are live on the platform, was not confirmed
Punjab: Invest Punjab Business First	The portal showed a maintenance notice when we tried it. The Directorate of Factories' own page states plan acceptance within 30 days under a Right to Services notification of 15 January 2016	The portal's list of integrated services was not readable

What is usually inside a portal, and what usually is not?

Three groups tend to be inside: state-level departments with a licence to give (factories inspectorate, fire service, electrical inspectorate), the state's industrial development corporation for land and building plans, and the state pollution board. The pattern breaks in places. Rajasthan's list had no pollution consent, and Uttar Pradesh's portal sends certain waste-registration filings to the CPCB site.

Items tend to sit outside when they belong to the Centre: PESO licences for petroleum storage, for example, appear on the National Single Window System under central approvals, which that site says offers over 325 central and 2,364 state approvals. Two other categories need a separate check: the DISCOM's new-connection or load application, which some portals handle (Rajasthan lists DISCOM services) and others leave to the utility, and the local body's occupancy certificate. Treat "single window" as a claim to verify per approval, not as coverage.

Do the stated time limits mean the approval arrives on time?

No. A portal's period is the department's target, and they differ for the same step. Gujarat's lists show 90 days for a factory plan approval and for a factory licence, where Tamil Nadu's department charter gives three months for plans and 30 days for a licence and Karnataka's service sheets give 60 working days. Telangana's Act sets limits from 1 to 30 days and lets the authority ask for shortfalls only once. Punjab's department page ties plan acceptance to 30 days. None of them stops the clock when your drawings are incomplete, so build the schedule on the longest period and treat a shorter one as a bonus.

The portals also differ on deemed approval. Karnataka's draft rules propose that a plan or licence application is deemed approved if no order comes in time, and the national OSH Code provides for a factory licence to be deemed issued after 45 days. Telangana's Act takes another route: it gives the entrepreneur a right to know the reasons for delay and provides for penalising the officers responsible. Do not plan on deeming; ask the department how it works in practice, and keep the application receipt.

How should an owner use a single-window portal?

Make your own list first. Use the sequence in our approvals guide: land, pollution consent, building and factory plans, fire, electrical inspection, licence.
Run the portal's Know Your Approvals tool. Karnataka's bill says its output is indicative and gives no exemption from any law, which applies to every state wizard.
Check each item against the services list. Mark items as on the portal, on another portal, or offline.
File drawings that agree. The portal routes the same file to different departments, and an inconsistency returns it. Our factory approvals roadmap covers the dependencies.
Keep every receipt and query reply. They are your evidence if a period runs out.

For the fire stage in these states, our guides cover Telangana, Gujarat and Karnataka.

How Secured Engineers helps

Secured Engineers designs fire, electrical, HVAC and plumbing systems in-house, so the drawings that go into every department's file come from one design set. Fire NOC, CEIG and DISCOM net-metering filings are done in-house. MEPF and solar can be placed under one contract. We work from offices in Noida (Delhi NCR) and Ludhiana and mobilise from them for projects elsewhere. The company has delivered 535+ projects across 18+ states, with 89.77% repeat clients.

If you have an approvals plan or a portal application in progress, we can check the list against your state's services and the drawings against each other before the next filing. Start from our approvals hub, then send the file by WhatsApp, call +91 70099 85817, or ask for a free proposal.

Frequently asked

Does a single-window portal replace the separate department applications?

Not as a rule. It routes your application to the departments connected to it, and each department still applies its own technical checks. Which departments are connected differs by state, and by portal version within a state. Uttar Pradesh's portal says some services are not on version 3.0 and must be filed on 2.0, so check the live services list for every approval.

Can I get pollution board consent through the state single-window portal?

In some states, yes. Uttar Pradesh's Nivesh Mitra list of 19 October 2026 includes Consent to Establish and Consent to Operate. Rajasthan's Rajnivesh services list that we read had no pollution board entry. Ask your state board whether to file on the portal or on its own site, and keep the consent reference, because factory and fire files ask for it.

What is the National Single Window System and how does it relate to state portals?

The National Single Window System at nsws.gov.in is a central portal that says it offers over 325 central and 2,364 state approvals, with state sections for each state. State portals such as TG-iPASS and MAITRI link to it. PAN verification is mandatory for applying there. Central approvals, including PESO, are listed on it, so use it for items the state portal does not carry.

Does single-window mean deemed approval if the department is late?

Not automatically. Telangana's TS-iPASS Act sets time limits, a single query round and a right to know the reasons for delay, and the national OSH Code provides for a factory licence to be deemed issued after 45 days. Whether deemed approval works in practice depends on the state's rules and the service. Treat a stated period as a target, keep your application receipt, and ask the department what happens at the deadline.

What should I check before relying on a state portal's Know Your Approvals tool?

Treat the output as indicative. Karnataka's 2026 bill, for example, says the output of its Know Your Approval module is indicative and gives no right, approval or exemption from any law. Compare the list with your own approvals matrix for land, pollution, building, factory, fire, electrical and DISCOM items, and confirm unclear ones with the department by email.

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