If you want an answer from the forum the least you can do is to put in details of your query, the background and the circumstances. Else it is unlikely anyone will be able to give you an answer
What are LWF and S&E? Do they represent Labour Welfare Fund and Shops and Establishment? Hope so.
Do you pay ESi and EPF? is it required that there should be a registration under your state (Maharashtra) Shops and Commercial Establishments Act to take registration under the Welfare Fund Act? Can't the factories cover under the Welfare Fund Act?
Incidentally, I checked the portal of Labour Welfare Fund Board in Maharashtra (just out of curiosity), and it is going based on PAN and not asking for Shop & Establishment or any other license.... So what exactly is the OP's problem?
Or is this another interview question that we are being fooled into answering?
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