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Government Of Assam Environment & Forest

Category of Industries

  • I.LIST OF INDUSTRIES UNDER "RED" CATEGORIES
    A.Industries identified by Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India as heavily polluting and covered under Central Action Plan. Viz;
    1.Aluminium smelter
    2.Cement
    3.Chlor alkali
    4.Copper smelter.
    5.Distillery including Fermentation industry
    6.Dyes and Dye-intermediates.
    7.Fertilizer (Basic) (excluding formulation)
    8.Iron and Steel (Involving processing from ore/scrap/Integrated steel plants.)
    9.Oil refinery (Mineral oil or Petro refineries).
    10.Pesticides (Technical) (excluding formulation).
    11.Petrochemicals (Manufacture of and not merely use of as raw material)
    12.Pharmaceuticals (excluding formulation).
    13.Pulp and Paper (Paper manufacturing with or without pulping).
    14.Sugar (excluding Khandsari)
    15.Tanneries.
    16.Thermal power plants.
    17.Zinc smelter.
    B.Industries manufacturing following products or carrying out following activities :-
    1.Anodizing
    2.Asbestos and asbestos-based industries.
    3.Automobile manufacturing / assembling
    4.Ceramic/refractories.
    5.Chemical, petrochemical and electrochemical including manufacture of acids such as Sulphuric Acid, Nitric Acid, Phosphoric Acid etc.
    6.Chlorates, perchlorates and peroxides.
    7.Chlorine, fluorine, bromine, iodine and their compounds.
    8.Coke making, coal liquefaction, coaltar distillation or fuel gas making.
    9.Common Effluent Treatment Plant
    10.Dry coal processing/Mineral processing industries like ore sintering, palletization etc.
    11.Explosive including detonators, fuses etc.
    12.Fermentation industry including manufacture of yeast, beer etc.
    13.Fire crackers.
    14.Foundries
    15.Glass and fiber glass production and processing (excluding moulding).
    16.Glue and gelatin.
    17.Heavy Engineering
    18.Hospitals
    19.Hot mix plants
    20.Hydrocyanic acid and its derivatives.
    21.Incineration plant.
    22.Industrial carbon including electrodes and graphite blocks, activated carbon, carbon black etc.
    23.Industrial or inorganic gases namely (a) Chemical gases: Acetylene, Hydrogen, Chlorine, Fluorine, Ammonia, Sulphur Dioxide, Ethylene, Hydrogen Sulphide, Phosphine. (b) Hydrocarbon Gases: Methane, Butane, Ethane, Propane.
    24.Industry or process involving electroplating operations.
    25.Industry or process involving foundry operations.
    26.Industry or process involving metal treatment or processes such as pickling, surface coating, paint baking, paint stripping, heat treatment, phosphating or finishing etc.
    27.Lead re-processing and manufacturing including lead smelting.
    28.Lime manufacturing.
    29.Lubricating oils, greases or petroleum - based products.
    30.Milk processing and dairy products (Integrated project)
    31.Mining and ore-beneficiation.
    32.Organic Chemical manufacturing
    33.Parboiled rice mills
    34.Paints and varnishes (excluding blending / mixing).
    35.Petroleum products manufacturing & oil / crude oil/ residues reprocessing
    36.Phosphorous rock processing plants.
    37.Phosphorous and its compounds.
    38.Photographic films and chemicals.
    39.Pigments and intermediates.
    40.Potable alcohol (IMFL) by blending or distillation of alcohol.
    41.Power generating plants (excluding D.G. Sets)
    42.Processes involving chlorinated hydrocarbon.
    43.Ship breaking
    44.Slaughter houses and meat processing units.
    45.Steel and steel products including coke plants involving use of any of the equipments such as blast furnaces, open hearth Furnace, induction furnace or arc furnace etc. or any of the operations or processes such as heat treatment, acid pickling, rolling or galvanizing etc.
    46.Stone crushers.
    47.Surgical and medical products involving prophylactics and latex.
    48.Synthetic detergent and soap.
    49.Synthetic fibers including rayon, tyre cords, polyester filament yarn.
    50.Synthetic resins.
    51.Synthetic rubber excluding moulding.
    52.Tobacco products including cigarettes and tobacco processing.
    53.Vegetable oils including solvent extracted oils, hydrogenated oils.
    54.Yarn and textile processing involving scouring, bleaching, dyeing, printing or any effluent/emission generating process.
    II.LIST OF INDUSTRIES UNDER "ORANGE" CATEGORIES
    A.Industries identified by Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India under "Orange" Category.
    1.Automobile servicing and repairs stations.
    2.Brick Manufacturing
    3.Cashewnut processing plants (dry process).
    4.Cement clinker grinding units.
    5.Cotton gunning, spinning and weaving.
    6.Fish processing
    7.Flour mills (excluding Domestic Aatta Chakki)
    8.Food additives, nutrients and flavours.
    9.Food including fruits and vegetable processing
    10.Fragrances and industrial perfumes
    11.Hotels and restaurants
    12.Instant tea/coffee, coffee processing.
    13.Khandsari sugar.
    14.Laboratory chemicals involving distillation, purification process.
    15.Laboratory-wares.
    16.Lead-acid battery reconditioning/assembling
    17.Malted food.
    18.Manufacture of mirror from sheet glass and photoframing
    19.Manufacture of synthetic detergent intermediates (other than formulated synthetic detergent products)
    20.Manufacture of soaps (process generating trade effluent).
    21.Metal treatment or process involving surface coating and paint baking.
    22.Non-alcoholic beaverages (soft drinks)
    23.NPK Fertilizers/Granulation.
    24.Organic nutrients
    25.Pesticides/Insecticides/Fungicides/Herbicides/Agrochemical formulation.
    26.Petroleum products/crude oil storage and transfer excluding cross-country pipeline.
    27.Pharmaceuticals formulations.
    28.Plywood and Board manufacturing.
    29.Pre-boiled rice mills
    30.Pulping and fermenting of coffee beans.
    31.Pulverizing units
    32.Surgical and medical products not involving effluents/emission generating processes.
    33.Tyres and tubes vulcanisation, vulcanisation, retreading moulding.
    34.Wire drawing (cold process) and bailing straps.
    III.LIST OF INDUSTRIES UNDER "GREEN" CATEGORIES
    A.Industries in Small Scale, Cottage/Village category suggested under notification of the State Government for issuance of simplified NOC/Consent from State Pollution Control Board as the case may be
    B.All those industries or processes which are not covered under the "Red" and/or "Orange" category; entries not generating process effluents or emissions. An illustrative list is provided below:
    1.Apparel making
    2.Assembly of air coolers, conditioners.
    3.Assembly of bicycles, baby carriages and other small non-motorised vehicles.
    4.Aatta-chakkies
    5.Bakery products, biscuits, confectionery
    6.Bamboo and cane products (only dry operations)
    7.Block making for printing.
    8.Bulk Cement terminal
    9.Cardboard or corrugated box and paper products (Paper or pulp manufacturing excluded.)
    10.Carpet weaving
    11.Chilling plants and cold storages.
    12.Cotton and woolen hosiery
    13.Dal mills.
    14.Electronic and electrical goods.
    15.Electronics equipment (Assembly)
    16.Footwear (rubber)
    17.Fountain pens.
    18.Garments stitching, tailoring
    19.Gold and sliver smithy
    20.Gold and silver thread zari work
    21.Groundnut decorticating (dry)
    22.Ice cream or Ice-making.
    23.Industrial gases, namely: Air, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Argon, Helium, carbon Dioxide, Ntrous Oxide.
    24.Insulation and other coated papers (Paper or pulp manufacturing excluded.)
    25.Jobbing and machining
    26.Leather footwear and leather products excluding tanning and hide processing.
    27.Light engineering
    28.Manufacture of formulated synthetic detergent products.
    29.Manufacture of soaps involving process without generation of trade effluent (saponification of fats and fatty acids only).
    30.Medical and surgical instruments
    31.Mineralised water
    32.Musical instruments manufacturing.
    33.Oil ginning/expelling (no hydrogenation/refining)
    34.Optical frames
    35.Paint (by mixing process only)
    36.Paper pins and U-clips.
    37.Plastic & PVC processed goods.
    38.Polythene, plastic and P.V.C. goods through injection / extrusion moulding.
    39.Powerlooms.//handlooms (without dyeing & bleaching).
    40.Printing press
    41.Radio assembling
    42.Rice mullors
    43.Rope (cotton and plastic)
    44.Rubber goods industry.
    45.Scientific and mathematical instruments.
    46.Shoelace manufacturing
    47.Sports goods.
    48.Steeping and processing of grains
    49.Supari (Betelnut) and masala grinding.
    50.Thermometer making
    51.Toys
    52.Wasting of used sand by hydraulic discharge
    53.Water softening and demineralised plants.
    54.Yarn and textile processing involving scouring, bleaching, dyeing, printing or any effluent/emission generating process.
    IV. NON-POLLUTING INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES[Exemption from Consent]
    1.Tailoring / garment making,
    2.Handloom weaving,
    3.Furniture (wooden & steal),
    4.Assembly of domestic electrical and electronic appliances / equipment,
    5.Candles.
    6.Carpentry (excluding saw mill),
    7.Manufacture of steel trunks and suitcases.
    NOTE
    1.The industries which do not fall in any of the above-mentioned categories (i.e. Red /Orange / Green / non-polluting), decision with regard to their classification will be taken by a committee at Head Office level comprising of Member-Secretary and two senior officers of the Board.
    2.The State Board may adopt the categorization of the industries subject to local conditions and priorities as may be decided by the State Board and /or State Government.