India, July 11 -- New Delhi

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), in its house of councillors meeting on Thursday, passed a policy reform that allows industrial units located in designated areas or those with MSME registration certificates to be automatically treated as a "deemed factory licence", eliminating the need for a separate factory licence from the MCD.

Changes in factory licensing policy were one of the several policy proposals passed in the meeting, which was marred by ruckus and protests from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councillors, who were demanding regularisation of contractual workers in the civic body.

The major relief in factory licences comes on the heels of the administration shelving Delhi Police licensing for se...