CG Shops & Establishments Act 2017 as amended by Act 11 of 2026 (8 Jul 2026) · CG Municipality (Trade Licensing) Rules 2025 (7 Nov 2025), as amended 25 Jun 2026 (Rule 18) · verified 12 Sep 2026

Two Chhattisgarh rules changed for your shop within eight months. Which one applies to you now, and what do you owe?

Five questions, one premises.

This is a sample — Verma Electricals, a retail shop inside Raipur Municipal Corporation with 14 workers, registered under the S&E Act in 2019, no trade licence yet.
1 Describe2 Check3 Print

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S&E Act
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Trade licence
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Next date

Your premises

Step 2 · What does it do?

Your roster (optional)leave closed to skip the roster check
Who is managerial0 — typical for a shop; change if you have supervisors
Dates on your papersnone entered
Other licences you holdnone ticked

Your Shops & Establishments registration is taken from your answer above — you do not tick it here.

Name for the printed sheetnot set
Full answer above, nothing held back. If you'd rather the Form A and the S&E paperwork were done for you — Karan's firm in Raipur does these; a sealed shutter costs more than a year of the retainer.
Answer step 3.
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This is a working sheet, not legal advice or a compliance certificate. It applies the Chhattisgarh Shops and Establishments (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 2017 as amended by Chhattisgarh Act No. 11 of 2026 (gazette 8 July 2026) and the Chhattisgarh Municipality (Trade Licensing) Rules, 2025 (notification F. RULE-801/202/2025-UAD, 7 November 2025) as they stood on 12 September 2026. Forty-three categories are exempt from the trade licence since 25 June 2026 subject to their sector registration; the gazette text has not been read — confirm before relying on the exemption. Six points are flagged for confirmation on the page, and the new hour and threshold figures rest on a single compliance publisher — confirm against the gazette before you reset rosters. It states no trade-licence fee and no unlicensed-trading penalty, because no source read gives either. Statutory rules change; verify against the latest notifications before you act. Built and maintained by a practising Chartered Accountant in Raipur.

Where these rules come from

  • Chhattisgarh Shops and Establishments (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 2017, as amended by Chhattisgarh Act No. 11 of 2026 (gazette 8 July 2026) — the twenty-worker threshold and the revised hours.
  • Chhattisgarh Municipality (Trade Licensing) Rules, 2025 (notification F. RULE-801/202/2025-UAD, 7 November 2025), as amended 25 June 2026 — Rule 18 and the forty-three exempt categories.
  • Labour Department notification, Gazette 3 June 2026 — Rules 4 and 5 and Form-2 of the 2021 Rules substituted; online application, LIN certificate in 24 hours (reported by regional press; gazette unread).
  • Chhattisgarh Ease of Doing Business Act, 2026 — passed by the Legislative Assembly on 16 July 2026; not commenced as at 12 September 2026, so nothing on this page turns on it.