law: Industries (Development and Regulation) Act, 1951 
  11. Licensing of new industrial undertakings 
  (1) No person or authority other than the Central Government,
  
  shall, after the commencement of this Act, establish any new industrial
  
  undertaking, except under and in accordance with a license issued in that
  
  behalf by the Central Government:
  PROVIDED  that a government other than the Central
  
  Government may, with the previous permission of the Central Government,
  
  establish a new industrial undertaking.
  (2) A license or permission under sub-section (1) may contain
  
  such conditions including, in particular, conditions as to the location of the
  
  undertaking and the minimum standards in respect of size to be provided therein
  
  as the Central Government may deem fit to impose in accordance with the rules,
  
  if any, made under section 30.