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

15.   Fire works manufacturing and storage

16.   Fish feed, poultry feed and cattle feed

17.   Fish processing and packaging (excluding chilling of fish)

18.   Foam manufacturing

19.   Food & food processing including fruits & vegetable processing (capital investment on plant & machinery > Rs.10 lakhs but < Rs. 1 crore)

20.   Forging of ferrous & non-ferrous metal (using oil or gas fired boilers)

21.   Gravure printing

22.   Glass, ceramic, earthen potteries and tile manufacturing using oil or gas fired kiln

23.   Hardware manufacturing for computer and other information technology instruments

24.   Heat treatment using oil fired furnace (excluding cyniding)

25.   Hotels & Restaurants (capital investment on land, building, plant & machinery > 30 lakhs)

26.   Housing complexes with more than 100 flats or more than 60000 sq. ft. super built up area

27.   Husking mill

28.   Ice cream

29.   Infrastructure development project with capital investment more than Rs. 5 crores

30.   Jute processing without dyeing

31.   Manufacture of mirror from sheet glass

32.   Manufacturing of ferrous and non-ferrous metal products (without using any heating equipment)

33.   Organic nutrients (excluding simple mixing)

34.   Paint blending & mixing (Ball mill)

35.   Pharmaceutical formulation (capital investment plant & machinery ³ Rs. 10 lacs)

36.   Plyboard manufacturing (including vineer & laminate) with oil fired boiler/ thermic fluid heater (without resin plant)

37.   Poultry, hatchery, piggery (capital investment on land, building, plant & machinery ³ Rs. 10 lacs)

38.   Power press

39.   Pulverisation of bamboo and scrapwood

40.   Printing ink manufacturing

41.   Printing or etching of glass sheet using hydrofluoric acid (small scale)

42.   Puffed rice (muri) (using husk or coal fired chullah or vatti)

43.   Reprocessing of waste plastic (excluding PVC)

44.   Rice mill & rice hullers

45.   Rolling Mill (oil or gas fired) and cold Rolling mill

46.   Saw mill

47.   Silk screen printing

48.   Spray painting, paint baking, paint stripping

49.   Storage of hides and processing of tallow

50.   Synthetic detergents formulation (capital investment on plant & machinery ³ Rs. 5 lacs)

51.   Tea processing

52.   Tobacco products including cigarettes and tobacco processing

53.   Tyres and tubes vulcanization/hot retreading (using oil or gas fired boiler)

54.   Wire drawing (cold process) and bailing straps

55.   Wire netting

 

 

List of industries under “GREEN” category

 

1.       Acid lead battery (up to 10 batteries per day excluding lead plate casting)

2.       Aluminium utensils from aluminium circles

3.       Assembly of air coolers/conditioners, repairing and servicing

4.       Assembly of bicycles, baby carriage and other small non-motorised vehicles

5.       Automobile fuel outlet (only dispensing)

6.       Ayurvedic and Homeopathic medicine (without boiler)

7.       Bakery & Confectionery (with production capacity < 10tpd with oil, gas or electrical oven)

8.       Block making for printing without foundry (excluding wooden block making)

9.       Brass & Bell metal utensils manufacturing from circle (without re-Rolling facility)

10.   Candy

11.   Cardboard or corrugated box and paper products (excluding paper or pulp manufacturing and without using boiler)

12.   Carpet weaving

13.   Cement products like pipe, pillar, jafri, well ring etc. (should be done under closed covered shed to control cement dust spreading)

14.   Ceramic colour manufacturing (not using boiler and wastewater recycling process)

15.   Chilling plant and Ice making without use of ammonia

16.   Coated electrode manufacturing

17.   Colour/Black & White studio

18.   Cotton and woolen hosiery making

19.   Cotton spinning & weaving (small scale)

20.   Cutting, sizing and polishing of marble stones

21.   Decoration of ceramic cups & plates by electric furnace

22.   Dairy and dairy products (small scale) (capital investment on plant & machinery < Rs. 1 crore)

23.   Dal Mills

24.   Diesel Generator sets (15 KVA and above) for residential buildings, commercial buildings and healthcare organization

25.   Diesel pump repairing & servicing

26.   Distilled water

27.   Electric lamp (bulb) manufacturing (small scale)

28.   Electrical & electronic goods manufacturing

29.   Electronic equipment assembling

30.   Fertiliser (granulation and formulation only)

31.   Flour mills (dry process)

32.   Fly ash bricks manufacturing (lime process)

33.   Food & food processing including fruits & vegetable processing (capital investment on plant & machinery < Rs.10 lakhs)

34.   Fountain pen manufacturing

35.   Glue from starch

36.   Glass, ceramic, earthen potteries and tile manufacturing using electrical kiln or not involving kiln

37.   Glass putty and sealant

38.   Groundnut decorticating (dry)

39.   Gold and Silver smithy (purification with acid, smelting operation and sulfuric acid polishing operation) (using less than or equal to 1 litre of Sulphuric Acid / Nitric Acid per month)

40.   Handloom weaving (without dyeing and bleaching operation)

41.   Hotel & Restaurants (capital investment land, building, plant & machinery < Rs.30 lakhs) and Boarding & lodging house

42.   Insulation and other coated papers (excluding paper or pulp manufacturing) manufacturing

43.   Jobbing and machining

44.   Laboratory-wares

45.   Leather cutting and stitching (more than 10 machines and using motor)

46.   Leather footwear and leather products (excluding tanning and hide processing) (except cottage scale)

47.   Lubricating oils, greases or petroleum based products (only blending at normal temperature)

48.   Manufacturing of pasted veneers without using boiler or Thermic Fluid Heater or by sundrying

49.   Manufacturing of metal caps and containers

50.   Manufacturing of shoe brush & wire brush

51.   Manufacturing of toothpowder, toothpaste, talcum powder and other cosmetic items (small scale)

52.   Manufacturing of optical lenses (using electrical furnace)

53.   Medical oxygen

54.   Manufacturing of silica gel (without furnace)

55.   Mineralized water

56.   Manufacturing of coir items from coconut husk

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

58.   Oil mill ghani & extraction (no hydrogenation/refining)

59.   Organic and inorganic nutrients (by simple mixing)

60.   Paints and vernishes (mixing and blending) (without ball mill)

61.   Paper pins and U-clips

62.   Pharmaceutical formulation (capital investment on plant & machinery < Rs.10 lakhs)

63.   Phenyl manufacturing

64.   Polythene & plastic processed products manufacturing (excluding manufacturing & reprocessing of PVC granules and manufacturing of reprocessed PVC products and reprocessing of waste plastic)

65.   Poultry, hatchery, piggery (capital investment on land, building, plant & machinery < Rs. 10 lacs)

66.   Power looms (without dyeing and bleaching)

67.   Printing press

68.   Puffed rice (muri) (using oil, gas or electrical heating system)

69.   Rope (Cotton & Plastic)

70.   Rubber goods industry (without boiler)

71.   Scientific and mathematical instruments manufacturing

72.   Soap manufacturing (without steam boiling)

73.   Spice grinding (< 20 HP motor)

74.   Steel furniture without spray painting

75.   Steeping and processing of grains

76.   Supari (Betelnut) grinding

77.   Surgical and medical products not involving effluent/emission generating processes

78.   Sweet shop

79.   Synthetic detergent formulation (capital investment on plant & machinery < Rs. 5 lakhs)

80.   Tea garden only

81.   Teflon based products

82.   Thermocol manufacturing

83.   Thermometer making

84.   Toys (only electronic & mechanical) manufacturing

85.   Transformer repairing/manufacturing (should not be allowed in congested areas)

86.   Tyres and tubes retreading (without boiler)

87.   Vineer, laminate (without boiler and thermic fluid heater)

88.   Washing of used sand by hydraulic discharge

89.   Washing, chilling of fish and packaging only

90.   Water softening and demineralised plants

 

 

List of industries under “EXEMPTED” category

 

1.       Agarbati

2.       Assembly of domestic electrical appliances, servicing & repairing

3.       Atta Chakkis (wheat grinding)

4.       Auto Emission Testing Centres

5.       Ball pen refill

6.       Bamboo and Cane products (only dry operation)

7.       Biogas Plant

8.       Black smithy (should not be allowed in congested areas)

9.       Book Binding

10.   Cable TV network

11.   Candles manufacturing

12.   Carpentry and wooden furniture making (excluding saw mill)

13.   Coir manufacturing

14.   Cyber café

15.   Diesel Generator sets (< 15 KVA) sets for residential buildings, commercial buildings and health care organisation

16.   Gold and silver smithy (excluding purification/ polishing with any acid and smelting operation)

17.   Handicraft products like conchshell, coconutshell, dokra, cane and bamboo products, baluchari saree, stone carving, wood carving, batik, sola work etc.

18.   Handloom weaving (without dyeing & bleaching)

19.   Handmade paper

20.   Hardware assembling for IT industries

21.   Housing complex with 100 flats or less and 60000 sq. ft. super built up area or less

22.   Infrastructure development project with capital investment Rs. 5 crores or less

23.   Leather cutting and stitching (not more than or equal to 10 machines and without using motor)

24.   Leather footwear & leather products (excluding tanning & hide processing) (cottage scale only)

25.   Manual brass painting

26.   Manufacture of steel trunks & suitcases

27.   Mashroom Plantation and spawn

28.   Manufacturing of umbrella (only assembling)

29.   Musical instrument manufacturing

30.   Optical frames

31.   Optical lens manufacturing (without furnace)

32.   Photo framing

33.   Radio assembling servicing & repairing work

34.   Repairing & servicing of bicycles, baby carriage and other non-motorised vehicles

35.   Repairing & servicing of electronic equipment

36.   Shoelace manufacturing

37.   Soap (handmade)

38.   Soft toys, wooden toys manufacturing

39.   Software development for information & technology industry

40.   Sports goods manufacturing

41.   Tank calibration centre

42.   Tailoring & garment stitching/garment & Apparel manufacturing

43.   Tea packaging

44.   Weigh bridge (not manufacturing)

45.   Wooden block making for printing

46.   Xerox & Photocopying

47.   Zari embroidery work