Overview on School, Colleges and Institution compliance

This is a well-known fact that every institution, that could be school, college, or university, is considered the backbone of any country. So, without any well effective and structured educational system, the economy may face problems in the future. It is anticipated that managing this sector seems not a very difficult task. Although running an educational institution required the follow-up of some mandatory compliance, those should have been adequately adhered to. Nowadays, running an educational institution is said to be the most complicated task, like running a small town or city. Therefore, this is high time that educational institutions start taking care of various compliance. And those institutions which do comply with compliances are said to be non-compliant, and they might be forced to shut down. There should be a list of documents that list the policies and procedures that the institution has to comply with for any educational institution. It achieves so by noting that a person who is responsible for the administration must formulate policies and procedures in place and describe their schools' legal compliance procedure to make it easier for the school to comply with all applicable laws and to reduce the risk of non-compliance and Risk management framework or strategy for establishing, implementing, and reviewing.

The following are the rules that management must follow when planning the compliance procedure:

• Should keep in mind before the formulation of rules that the relationship between compliance and governance, risk, audit, legal assistance, environment, health, and safety. 
• The link between risk and compliance must have been adhered to. So, it will help identify risk, and effective control should be implemented. 
• The principle of transparency shall be strengthened, and effective management reporting must be executed properly. 
• There must be the development of a healthy culture of compliance and compliance behaviour maintained.
• Schools that the government does not run are strictly regulated. Not only do most schools have to follow a comprehensive set of registration rules, which they are graded on, but they also have to adhere to other legal requirements, not the least of which is workplace safety and privacy. These regulatory systems have recently been changed, giving regulators 'teeth' to apply to non-compliant organizations, aggravating the issue of compliance for schools.

Compliance for Schools, Institutes, and colleges

Any university, school, or institute wants to go for affiliation, and they need to fulfill the below-given compliances:

1. Fire NOC 
2. Water Boring 
3. SPCB certification 

Fire NOC

The No objection certification issued by the Fire department of the concerned state and municipality. This license is required, and the same ensured that any residential, commercial property is fire resistant. The Authority grants the Fire NOC supervised and headed by the deputy chief fire Officer or Chief Fire Officer who is assisted by the inspector of that concerned city/state. The condition for obtaining the Fire NOC applied on the buildings with a height of more than 15 meters. 

Why there is a need to obtain Fire NOC in India 

It is compulsory for residential and non-residential properties whose height is 15 meters and more than 15 meters, ensuring that the said properties install all fire-related measures. The Fire NOC usually helps protect the lives of the people staying there. Fire NOC protects lives and financial damages. 

Categorization of Fire NOC

• Office Buildings 
• Schools
• Colleges 
• Hospitals 
• Institutes 
• Multiplex buildings 
• Warehouses 
• Manufacturing factories with moderate and high hazards 
• Residential flats and apartments 

What are the documents required to obtain Fire NOC?

• Architect certified checklist 
• Building model 
• Copy of existing NOC agreement
• Certificate of electric wiring quantity and completion from a recognized authority
• Address and identity proof of the directors
• Registered office address proof 
• File questionnaire 
• Building stability certificate 
• Copies of the proposed plan of the building from the building authority same must be prepared as per the bye-Law no.6.2.4.1

Water Boring 

To regulate & control the development and management of groundwater resources in India, the Central Ground Water Authority was made under Section 3 (3) of the Environmental (Protection) Act, 1986.  

Functions of Central Ground Water Authority

The central Groundwater authority has given the below powers:

1. The CGWA should have the powers conferred under section 5 of the environment protection act 1986 issued directions and take the same measures referred to in sub-section (2) of section 3 of the activities mentioned above.
2. The regulation of the groundwater management and related developments in the country and issuance of regulatory directions for the purpose. 
3. It has the power under section 4 of the Environment protection act 1986 for the officers' appointment.

What are the types of NOCs and documents required? 

• Industrial water boring 
• Mining water boring 
• Infrastructure water boring 

SPCB Certification

Whoever wants to operate a school, college, or any institute needs to acquire Consent to operate (CTO) from SPCB. One must comply with the provision enumerated under section 25 of the water prevention and control act, 1974. If anyone wants to operate an industrial plant, he must follow U/s 21 of the Air prevention & control of pollution act, 1981. 

What are the different kinds of NOC? 

There are two kinds of NOC required by the clearance board:

1. Consent to establish 
2. Consent to operate 

Consent to establish 

Consent to establish is a type of Consent required by the concerned Authority to set up or run any manufacturing industry. This is the primary Authority to establish any air and water or noise pollution industry. 

Consent to Operate 

Consent to operate is needed to ensure that the industry maintains or maintains the standards related to operations all the industries required to form this type of Consent to operate. 

What are the documents to obtain NOC from State Pollution Control Board?

The following documents are required to obtain NOC:

• The industry or manufacturer's layout plan shall include effluent sewage treatment and emissions sources along with the layout design.
• It is also needed to provide information on the DG set, including the capacity.
• Information related to the process flow shall be exhibited on a sheet.
• analysis report of Solid waste, effluent, hazardous wastes, and fuel gases 
• Information on the instruments utilized by the water pollution control board and the air pollution control board.
• Quality report of the Air effluents.
•  Fee applied and same associated with Consent. A demand draft must be made to the appropriate pollution control authority. 
• Requirement of Budgeting for Water Calculations
• The Monitoring Facility must be presented in diagrammatic form.
• The Emission Analysis Reports

What are the different types of Industries which require CTO/CTE NOC from the State pollution control board?

• Battery waste management industries 
• Manufacturing industries 
• Health care sectors and institutions 
• Solid waste management industries 
• Plastic waste management industries 
• Bio-medical waste industries 
• E-waste management industries
• Plastic Waste Industries 
• Recyclers  
• Refurbisher 
• Hotel Industry  

How Corpbiz can assist you?

• Corpbiz can help in documentation
• Consultation
• Assist in obtaining the licenses
• Regular follow-up with the government authority
• Delivering of Licenses
• End-to-end service