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Classification of categories of industry
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