In his Budget speech , Shri Jaitleyji said :
The Government will evolve a scheme to assign every
individual enterprise in India, a unique ID
It seems , Shri Jaitleyji
found time to read my following blog / email :
Thursday, 12 May 2016
How many types of NUMBERS, do
Indian Companies need to register and acquire , to do business ?
Writing in MINT ( 02 May 2016 ),
Narayan Ramchandran quotes Manish Sabharwal , who has researched and listed the
following :
# Corporate Identity
Number........................................... ( 21 digits )
# Tax-payer Identification Number for
commercial taxes...... ( 11 digits )
# Service Tax Number...... ( Alpha-Numeric ) ....................
( 15 digits )
# Permanent Account Number - PAN (
Alpha-Numeric )........ ( 10 digits )
# Central Excise
Number..................................... ( PAN + 2 Characters )
# Provident Fund Number .................(
Alpha-Numeric )...... ( 11 digits )
# Profession Tax Registration Certificate ( Numeric )...............
( 9 digits )
# Profession tax Enrollment Certificate
( Numeric )............. ( 9 digits )
# Income tax Deduction/Calculation Number
( Alpha-Numeric ) ( 10 digits )
# ESIC Number ( Numeric
)................................................ ( 17 digits )
# Labour Department Registration(State specific
alphanumeric) (13 digits )
# Importer-Exporter Code ( Numeric
)................................. ( 10 digits )
# Shops/Establishment Reg Number ( alphanumeric )............ ( 20
digits )
# Contract Labour Registration ( alphanumeric ).................. ( 15+
digits )
# Labour Welfare Board ( Numeric
)..................................... ( 5 digits )
# Higher Court Case Number ( Alphanumeric
)..................... ( 12 digits )
Now , CBDT and MCA are in the process
of integrating their back-end operations , to provide ONE SIMPLE IDENTITY to companies, doing
away with the above multiple numbers
Without doubt , this long overdue
simplification will make it easy to do business in India
But , it seems , that each State will have unique number ( for
each Company registered in its territory ), as far as GST is concerned
I hope , someday soon , an India
Start-Up comes up with a digital solution ( pasting, a unique RFID sensor on
the forehead of each child , at birth ? ) to get rid of all the CARDS , a
person needs to acquire in a life-time , as mentioned in my following blog :
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Some 70 years ago , I had only one
card – the Ration Card
I was using it to buy , either wheat or bread or war-disposal biscuits from a Shivaji Park ration shop in Mumbai
Now I have,
* Driving License Card
* Senior Citizen Card
* Voting Card
* Credit Card
* PAN Card
* Aadhar Card ( UID )
Apart from sundry cards issued by private / commercial companies and NGOs
As if this was not enough , Central Government of India wants me to carry one more card !
National Population Register ( NPR ) is all set to issue,
Resident Identity Card ( RIC )
It will contain demographic and biometric details of the owner and will be issued to 820 million adult Indians at a cost of Rs 5,552 Crores
I believe only those holding RIC will be entitled to receive subsidized food-grains under the Food Security Act
How about a card to replace all the above-mentioned cards ?
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03 Feb 2018
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