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Classification of categories of industry

 

List of Industries under “SPECIAL RED” Category

 

1.       Acid lead batteries including lead plate casting (more than 10 batteries per day)

2.       All mining activities including queries

3.       Aluminium smelter

4.       Asbestos and asbestos-based industries

5.       Basic drug & pharmaceutical (excluding formulation)

6.       Calcium carbide manufacturing

7.       Cast iron foundry

8.       Cement (excluding simple grinding)

9.       Chemical, petrochemical and electrochemical, manufacture (including distillation) of mineral acids such as Sulphuric acid, Nitric acid, Hydrochloric acid, Phosphoric acid etc. and their salts, manufacture of alum

10.   Chlorates, perchlorates and peroxides

11.   Chlorine, fluorine, bromine, iodine and their compounds

12.   Chloro alkali

13.   Coke making, coal liquefaction, coal tar distillation, processing of coal tar distillate or fuel gas making, coke briquetting (excluding sundrying)

14.   Copper smelter

15.   Dichromate and chromates & basic chrome sulfate

16.   Distillery including fermentation industry (including manufacture of yeast & beer)

17.   Dyes and dye-intermediates

18.   Electroplating operations

19.   Explosives including detonators, fuses etc. & their storage

20.   Ferrous & Non-ferrous metal extraction (different furnaces & smelting), refining, casting, forging (with coal fired boilers), alloy making etc.

21.   Fertiliser (Basic) (excluding granulation & formulation only)

22.   Glass and ceramics (excluding tile manufacturing) using coal fired kiln

23.   Hazardous waste/Bio-medical waste disposal facilities

24.   Hydrocyanic acid and its derivatives

25.   Incineration plants

26.   Industry or process involving metal treatment or process such as pickling, surface coating (excluding spray, manual brush, paint baking, paint stripping), heat treatment (only cyniding), phosphating, galvanising, anodising etc.

27.   Integrated textile mills (processing involving scouring, bleaching, dyeing, printing or any effluent/emission generating process) and dyeing of other fabrics

28.   Iron and Steel (involving processing from ore / scrap / integrated steel plants) including coke plants and steel products involving use of any of the equipment such as blast furnaces, open hearth furnace, induction furnace or arc furnace etc.

29.   Isolated storage of hazardous chemicals (as per schedule of Manufacture, Storage & Import of Hazardous Chemicals Rules, 1989), etc.

30.   Lead smelting, refining and manufacture of its oxides

31.   Non-alcoholic beverages (soft drinks) and only bottling of alcoholic products (capital investment on plant & machinery > 1 crore)

32.   Oil refinery (Mineral oil or Petro refineries)

33.   Paints and varnishes (excluding units with only blending & mixing)

34.   Pesticides (including formulation)

35.   Petrochemicals (manufacture of and not merely use of as raw material)

36.   Phenolic products

37.   Phosphorous and its compounds

38.   Pigments and intermediates

39.   Power plants (including hydel power, thermal power, nuclear power etc.) (excluding Diesel Generator sets and captive power plant)

40.   Power plant (captive)

41.   Processes involving chlorinated hydrocarbons

42.   Printing or etching of glass sheet using hydrofluoric acid (large scale)

43.   Pulp & Paper (excluding paper manufacturing by hydropulping and excluding manufacture of Straw board, Gray board & Duplex board)

44.   Radioactive elements

45.   Rolling mill (hot) (coal fired)

46.   Rubber chemicals

47.   Ship breaking activity

48.   Slaughter houses and meat processing units

49.   Sugar

50.   Synthetic & natural fibre including rayon, tyre cord, polyester filament yarn & raw woolen, raw silk, cellophane paper, cellulose nitrate

51.   Synthetic resins

52.   Synthetic rubber

53.   Tanneries

54.   Vegetable oils & edible oils including solvent extracted oils, hydrogenated oils

55.   Waste oil processing (any method)

56.   Zinc smelter

 

 

 

 


List of Industries under “ORDINARY RED” Category

 

1.       Acid slurry (sulphonation)

2.       Almirah manufacturing (not permitted in municipal areas of West Bengal)

3.       Bitumen processing and products

4.       Bone Mill

5.       Composite woollen mill including dewaxing of raw wool and raw silk

6.       Ceramic colour manufacturing (using boiler)

7.       Dairy and dairy products (integrated project, capital investment on plant & machinery > Rs. 1 crore)

8.       Dry coal processing/Mineral processing industries like ore sintering, pelletization, grinding and pulverisation etc.

9.       Earthen potteries & tile manufacturing (using coal or wood fired kiln)

10.   Electric lamp (bulb) manufacturing (large scale)

11.   Fibre glass and glass wool production

12.   Food & food processing including fruits & vegetable processing (with capital investment on plant & machinery > Rs. 1 crore)

13.   Glue (excluding glue from starch), gelatine and synthetic adhesives

14.   Gold and Silver smithy (purification with acid, smelting operation and sulfuric acid polishing operation) (using more than 1 litre of Sulphuric Acid / Nitric Acid per month)

15.   Grill manufacturing (not permitted in municipal areas of West Bengal)

16.   Health care establishment

17.   Handicrafts products like terracotta work

18.   Industrial carbon including electrodes and graphite blocks, activated carbon, carbon black etc.

19.   Industrial or inorganic gases (excluding medical oxygen)

20.   Jute processing with dyeing

21.   Lime manufacturing

22.   Lubricating oils, greases or petroleum based products (excluding blending at normal temperature)

23.   Manufacturing & reprocessing of PVC granules and manufacturing of reprocessed PVC products

24.   Manufacturing of silica gel with furnace

25.   Manufacturing of toothpowder, toothpaste, talcum powder and other cosmetic items (large & medium scale)

26.   Manufacturing of pasted veneers using boiler or Thermic Fluid Heater

27.   Manufacturing of umbrella (including manufacturing of metallic handle and sticks)

28.   Manufacturing of optical lenses (using furnace other than electric furnace)

29.   Photographic films and chemicals

30.  Plyboard manufacturing (including vineer & laminate) with coal or waste wood fired boiler / thermic fluid heater (with captive resin manufacturing plant)

31.   Reclamation of rubber, manufacture of rubber solution containing mineral naptha & rubber wastes, rubber based adhesives

32.   Refractories

33.   Rubber goods industry (with boiler)

34.   Shellac processing

35.   Spice grinding (> 20 HP motor)

36.   Stone crushing

37.   Straw board, gray board, duplex board and paper manufacturing by hydropulping and with or without using boiler

38.   Surgical and medical products involving prophylactics and latex

39.   Synthetic detergent (excluding formulation ) and soap (with steam boiling)

40.   Tyres and tubes vulcanization/hot retreading (using coal fired boiler)/moulding

41.   Wood charcoal manufacturing and processing

 

 


List of Industries under “ORANGE” Category

 

1.       Automobile servicing, repairing and painting (excluding only fuel dispensing)

2.       Ayurvedic and Homeopathic medicine (with boiler)

3.       Bakery & confectionery [(a) with production capacity < 10 tpd with coal & wood fired oven and (b) all units with production capacity ³ 10 tpd]

4.       Bleaching of fabrics, yarn

5.       Brickfields (excluding fly ash brick manufacturing using lime process)

6.       Cashewnut processing

7.       Cement grinding (excluding coal fired drier)

8.       Chilling plant, cold storage and Ice making

9.       Chira mill

10.   Coffee seed processing

11.   Coke briquetting (sun drying)

12.   Cotton spinning and weaving (medium and large scale)

13.   Dry cell battery (excluding manufacturing of electrodes)

14.   Engineering and fabrication units