Law Updates

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Summary: Manipur is proposing a different way of handling trade, shop and establishment licences. The Manipur Unified (Trade, Shop and Establishment Licensing) Bill, 2026, introduced as Bill No. 13 of 2026, seeks to bring business licensing under one common framework instead of allowing the same activity to remain tied to duplicate licensing requirements from different authorities. The Bill combines digital filing, self-declaration, risk-based classification and time-bound processing in one proposed system.  For a business owner, the biggest change is not simply that an application may move online