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Categorization of Activities

(As per Board Notification No. KSPCB/717/COC/2012-13/6311 Dated: 01-04-2013 )

 

REVISED LIST OF RED CATEGORY OF 

INDUSTRY/ORGANIZATION/ACTIVITY WITH EFFECT

FROM 01.04.2013


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Industry/Organization/Activity

1

Airports, and Commercial Air Strips

2

Aluminium smelter

3

Asbestos and asbestos based industries

4

Automobiles Manufacturing (Integrated facilities)

5

Basic Chemicals and electro chemicals and its derivatives including manufacture of acids

6

Ceramic, Refractories and Electro-thermal products (artificial abrasives, calcium carbide, etc.)

7

Cement

8

Chlor Alkali

9

Chlorates, perchlorates and peroxides

10

Chlorine, fluorine, bromine, iodine, and their compounds

11

Coal Washeries

12

Copper smelter

13

Coke making, liquefaction, coal tar distillation or fuel gas making

14

Common Treatment and disposal facilities (CETP, TSDF, E-Waste recycling, CBMWTF, Effluent conveyance project, incinerators, Solvent/Acid recovery plant, MSW sanitary landfill sites)

15

Distillery including Fermentation industry

16

Dyes and Dye-Intermediates

17

Dry coal   processing/mineral   processing,   industries   involving  ore   sintering, palletisation, grinding, pulverization

18

Emulsion of oil & water

19

Fermentation industry including manufacture of yeast, beer, distillation of alcohol (IMA)

20

Fertilizer (basic) (excluding formulation)

21

Ferrous and Non ferrous metal extraction involving different furnaces through melting, refining, reprocessing, casting and alloy making

22

Fibre glass production and processing (Excluding moulding)

23

Fire crackers manufacturing and bulk storage facilities

24

Flakes from rejected PET bottle

25

Fly ash export, transport and disposal facilities

26

Health care establishment (As defined in BMW Rules)

27

Heavy engineering including Ship Building (With investment on Plant & Machineries more than Rs.10 Crores)

28

Hot mix plants

29

Hotels (3 Star & above) and Hotels having 100 rooms and above

30

Hydrocyanic acid and its derivatives

31

Industrial carbons (including graphite electrodes, modes, midget electrodes, graphite blocks, graphite crucibles, gas carbons, activated carbon, synthetic diamonds, carbon black, channel black, lamp black, etc.)

32

Industrial estates/ parks/ complexes/ areas/ export processing zones/ SEZs/ Biotech parks/ leather complex

33

Industrial inorganic gases namely:-

a) Chemical gases: Acetylene, hydrogen, chlorine, fluorine, ammonia, sulphur dioxide, ethylene, hydrogen sulphide, phosphine

b)  Hydrocarbon gases: Methane, ethane, propane

34

Industries engaged in recycling /reprocessing/recovery /reuse of Hazardous Waste under schedule IV of Hazardous Waste (M, H & TBM) Rules, 2008 and its amendments

35

Industry or process involving foundry operations

36

Industry or process involving metal surface treatment or process such as pickling/ plating/electroplating/ paint stripping/heat treatment/ phosphating or finishing and anodising/ enamelling/ galvanising

37

Iron and Steel (involving processing  from ore/ integrated  steel plants and or  Sponge Iron Units

38

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

39

Lead acid battery manufacturing including manufacture of lead and lead antimony alloy (excluding assembling and charging of lead acid battery)                  

40

Lime manufacturing (Using Lime Kiln)

41

Manufacturing of Explosives, detonators, fuses including management and handling activities

42

Manufacturing of Glass

43

Manufacturing of Glue and gelatin

44

Manufacturing of Lubricating oils, creases or petroleum based products

45

Manufacturing of Paints, Varnishes, pigments and intermediate (excluding blending/ mixing)

46

Manufacturing of Starch/Saggo

47

Milk processing and dairy products (integrated project)

48

Mineral stack yards/ Railway sidings

49

Mining, ore benification, ore sintering and pellatisation etc.

50

New Highway construction projects

51

Non alcoholic beverage (soft drink) & bottling of alcoholic/non-alcoholic products (capital investment on plant & machinery > Rs.1 crores)

52

Nuclear Power Plants

53

Oil & Gas extraction including CBM (offshore & onshore extraction through drilling wells)

54

Oil and gas transportation pipeline including storage Depots

55

Oil Refinery (Mineral Oil or Petro Refineries) and product pipeline

56

Organic chemicals manufacturing, Meta Amino phenol

57

Pesticides (Technical) including manufacture of bio-pesticides (excluding formulation)

58

Petrochemicals including manufacture of polypropylene and pthalic Anhydride (Manufacture of and not merely use of as raw material)

59

Pharmaceuticals & Bulk Drug (excluding formulation).

60

Pulp and Paper (paper manufacturing with or without pulping)

61

Phosphate rock processing plant

62

Phosphorous and its compounds

63

Photographic films and its chemicals

64

Ports & Harbours, Jetties and Dredging Operations

65

Power Generation Plants and Bio-mass power plants [Except Wind, Solar and Mini Hydel Power plants of capacity <25 MW) and DG set of capacity >5 MVA]

66

Processes involving chlorinated hydrocarbons

67

Railway Locomotive workshops / Integrated Road transport workshop/ Authorised service centres

68

Reprocessing of used oils and waste oils

69

Ship breaking activities

70

Slaughter houses (As per the notification S.O.270(E) dated 26.03.2001) and meat processing industries, bone mill, processing of animal horns, hoofs and other body parts

71

Steel and steel products using various furnaces like blast furnaces/ open hearth furnace/ induction furnace/ electric arc furnace/ submerged arc furnace/ basic oxygen furnace/ hot rolling using reheating furnace

72

Stone crushers

73

Sugar (excluding Khandsari)

74

Surgical and medical products involving prophylactics and latex

75

Synthetic detergents and soaps (excluding formulation)

76

Synthetic fibres including rayon, tyre cord, polyester filament yarn and nylon

77

Synthetic resins

78

Synthetic rubber excluding molding

79

Tanneries

80

Thermal Power Plants including all barge mounted power plants

81

Tobacco products including cigarettes and tobacco/ opium processing

82

Vegetable oils including solvent extraction and refinery/ hydrogenated oils

83

Yarn/ textile processing involving any effluent/ emission-generating process, bleaching, dyeing, printing and scouring

84

Zinc Smelter

85

Pulping and fermenting of coffee beans

86

Nitrogen compounds (cyanides, cyanamides and other nitrogen compounds)

87

Natural Latex

88

Import and storage of oil

89

Electric bulb filament processing

90

Tyre manufacture

91

Printed circuit board manufacturing units

92

Formulation of Pesticide, insecticide, & fungicide

93

Aquaculture pond including prawn hatcheries

94

Shaving blade manufacturing

95

CNS Shell oil manufacture (cashew or other similar shell)

96

Composting of Pressmud, Bio-fertilizer and organic Nutrients using Spent Wash

97

Manufacture of Office & Household equipments and appliances using fossil fuel for combustion

98

Research laboratories involving chemicals/animals

99

Fluorescent tubular lamps

100

Manufacture of organic nutrient for agricultural and horticultural application

Note: 1. Any industry/industrial activity which is not covered in above list having coal fired boiler with steam generation capacity more than 5 T/hr will be covered under Red Category.


REVISED LIST OF GREEN CATEGORY OF

INDUSTRY/ORGANIZATION/ACTIVITY WITH

EFFECT FROM 01.04.2013 

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Industry/Organization/Activity

1

Assembling of lead Acid battery

2

Aluminium utensils from aluminium circles

3

Assembly of air coolers/conditioners, repairing and servicing

4

Ayurvedic and Homeopathic medicine (without boiler)

5

Bakery/Confectionery/Sweets production (Industrial Scale)

6

Bio fertilizer & bio-pesticide without using inorganic chemicals

7

Biomass Briquettes (sun drying) without using toxic or hazardous wastes

8

Biscuit trays etc. from rolled PVC sheet (using automatic vaccum forming machine)

9

Blending and packaging of Tea

10

Blending of melamine resins & different powder, additives by physical mixing

11

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

12

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

13

Candy

14

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

15

Carpentry and wooden furniture manufacturing (excluding saw mill) with the help of electrical (motorized) machines such as electric wood planner, steel saw cutting circular blade etc.

16

Cement products (without using Asbestos) like pipe, pillar, jafri, well ring, blocks/tiles etc. (should be done under closed covered shed to control fugitive emissions) [only industrial scale]

17

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

18

Chalk making from plaster of paris

19

Chilling plant and Ice making without use of ammonia

20

Coated electrode manufacturing

21

Compact disc, computer floppy & cassette manufacturing

22

Compressed oxygen gas from crude liquid oxygen Nitrogen and Carbon-Di-oxide

23

CO2 recovery

24

Cotton and woolen hosiery making (SSI & Cottage industries)

25

Cotton spinning & weaving (small scale)

26

Decoration of ceramic cups & plates by electric furnace

27

Diesel Generator sets (15 KVA to 1 MVA)

28

Diesel pump repairing & servicing

29

Distilled water

30

Electric lamp (bulb) manufacturing (small scale)

31

Electrical & electronic items assembling

32

Flavoured beatle nut production/grinding

33

Flour mills (dry process)

34

Fly ash bricks/blocks manufacturing

35

Fountain pen manufacturing

36

Glass ampules & vials making from glass tubes

37

Glass putty and sealant

38

Glass, ceramic, earthen potteries and tile manufacturing using electrical kiln or not involving fossil fuel kilns

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

Groundnut decorticating (dry)

41

Handloom/ Carpet weaving (without dyeing and bleaching operation)

42

Hotels with < 20 bed rooms or banquet hall or with minium floor area of 100 sq. mtr or a restaurant with a minimum seater capacity of 36

43

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

44

Leather cutting and stitching including Readymade leather garments

45

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

46

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

47

Manufacturing of coir items from coconut husk

48

Manufacturing of metal caps, containers etc.

49

Manufacturing of optical lenses (using electrical furnace)

50

Manufacturing of pasted veneers without using boiler or Thermic Fluid Heater or by sun drying

51

Manufacturing of shoe brush & wire brush

52

Manufacturing of silica gel (without furnace)

53

Medical oxygen

54

Mineralized water

55

Oil mill ghani & extraction (no hydrogenation/refining)

56

Organic and inorganic nutrients (by physical mixing)

57

Transformer assembly, Motor rewinding

58

Weighing machines

59

Packing of powdered milk

60

Paper pins and U-clips

61

Phenyl/Toilet cleaner formulation & Bottling

62

Reel manufacturing

63

Polythene & plastic processed products manufacturing (virgin plastics) including plastic injection/ extrusion moulding and plastic cable manufacturing

64

Poultry, hatchery, Piggery

65

Power looms (without dyeing and bleaching)

66

Printing press Industrial scale

67

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

68

Ready mix cement concrete

69

Reprocessing of waste a cotton

70

Rope (Cotton & Plastic)

71

Rubber goods industry (with baby boiler only)

72

Scientific and mathematical instruments manufacturing

73

Soap manufacturing (Handmade without steam boiling)

74

Solar module (Non conventional energy apparatus) manufacturing unit

75

Solar power generation through solar photovoltic cell, wind power & mini hydel power (< 25 MW)

76

Spice grinding (< 20 HP motor)

77

Steel furniture without spray painting

78

Steeping and processing of grains

79

Surgical and medical products not involving effluent/emission generating processes

80

Synthetic detergent formulation

81

Teflon based products

82

Tyres and tubes retreading (without boiler)

83

Agarbathi Manufacturing

84

Atta chakkies, chilly & masala powder, powdering of spices

85

Body building of wooden boats & trawlers

86

Coffee curing, roasting and grinding (industrial scale)

87

Commercial Complexes, Office Complex/Banks, Cinema Theaters having built up area <20,000 sq.mtrs. in non-sewered areas and having independent STPs/and DG sets (vide G.O.No.FEE 22 EPC 2009 (P-1), dated 04.08.2010 issued by Department of Ecology & Environment, Government of Karnataka  

88

Cotton ginning

89

Cotton knitting including Socks, Shoe lace

90

Dal Mills, grams roasting, drying

91

Dry distempers without kilns / furnace

92

Engineering and Fabrication units with painting (without generation of trade effluents) including Almirah, Grill manufacturing

93

Fiber glass molding, Fiber Glass reinforced plastic

94

Fish net manufacturing without dyeing

95

Flori-cultures & Horticultures

96

Formulation of Bio-Pesticides and herbicide

97

Formulation Organic Nutrient without the use of spent wash from distillery

98

Garment Stitching

99

General Engineering Industries (Excluding electroplating, heat treatment, forging, casting, pickling de-greasing Phosphating, de-rusting, quenching)

100

Gutka Packing units

101

Hair sizing

102

Ice blocks manufacturing, cold storage & refrigeration rooms

103

Ice cream units

104

Inter locking paving blocks

105

Jaggery manufacturing

106

Kalyanamantapams & Community Halls (for DG Sets)

107

Label manufacturing

108

Laboratory ware including glass blowing

109

Maize flakes and Maize grit manufacturing

110

Manual and wire cut bricks

111

Manufacturing of veneer only

112

Mosaic tiles

113

Manufacture of Motor & Pumps without foundry (industrial scale)

114

Repairing of electric motors and generators and motor rewinding  (industrial scale)

115

Optical frames without electroplating

116

Panel Board, Switches without electroplating

117

Pickle manufacturing

118

Plastic sack bags, woven sack with HDPE, LDPE, Polythene bags (without recycling plastic)

119

Plastic units covered under Plastic Rules, 2011

120

Press Board Manufacturing 

121

PVC pipes, HDPE pipes etc., by extrusion

122

RCC Railway Sleepers

123

Re-packing of finished products (Dry products)

124

Readymade leather garments

125

Research laboratories not involving chemicals/animals

126

Rice Hulling & Phova manufacturing industries

127

Roofing tiles, ridges, decorative tiles

128

Safety Match sticks

129

Saw mills

130

Silk twisting (excluding dyeing & de-gumming)

131

Snuff manufacturing, Beedi manufacturing, chewing tobacco

132

Soft drinks, aerated waters excluding pulp based

133

Software units

134

Sports Goods

135

Stitching of shoe uppers

136

Stone ware pipes

137

Tablets, capsules formulations (dry process)

138

Terra-cotta

139

Transformer assembly unit (industrial scale)

140

Tread rubber including pre-cured rubber

141

Umbrellas Assembly, rain coat stitching, tarpaulin stitching

142

Utensils using Brass, Aluminum, Bronze

143

Wax Candles (excluding manufacturing of waxes)

144

Dal Mills

145

Digital printing, on PVC cloth

146

Ice cream

147

Power press

148

Rice mill less than 10 TPD & rice hullers

149

Saw mill

150

Spice grinding (> 20 HP motor)

151

Tea/Coffee  processing

152

Amusement Theme Park

153

Holiday Resorts/Jungle Resorts/Beach Resorts

154

Others- not  generating trade effluents and process emissions.

 

 



REVISED LIST OF ORANGE CATEGORY OF 

INDUSTRY/ORGANIZATION/ACTIVITY WITH

EFFECT FROM 01.04.2013


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Industry/Organization/Activity

1

Aluminium and copper extraction from scrap using oil fired furnace

2

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

3

Ayurvedic and Homeopathic medicine (Manufacturing with Boiler)

4

Bakery & confectionery units with production capacity > 1 tpd]

5

Biaxially oriented PP film along with metalising operation

6

Brickfields (excluding fly ash brick manufacturing using lime process)

7

Building & construction projects more than 20,000 Sq mtr built up area

8

Cashew nut processing

9

Chanachur and ladoo from puffed and beaten rice (muri and chira) using husk fired oven

10

Chilling plant, cold storage and Ice making

11

Coke briquetting (sun drying)

12

Cotton spinning and weaving (medium and large scale)

13

Cutting, sizing and polishing of marble stones

14

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

15

DG Set of capacity >1 MVA but <5 MVA)

16

Dismantling of rolling stocks (wagons/coaches )

17

Dry cell battery (excluding manufacturing of electrodes) & assembling & charging of acid lead battery

18

Emery powder (fine dust of sand) manufacturing

19

Engineering and fabrication units with surface treatment and with trade effluent

20

Fertilizer (granulation and formulation only)

21

Fish feed, poultry feed and cattle feed

22

Fish processing and packaging (excluding chilling of fish)

23

Foam manufacturing

24

Food & food processing including fruits & vegetable processing

25

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

26

Formulation/palletization of camphor tablets, napthalene balls from camphor/ naphthalene powder

27

Glass, ceramic, earthen potteries and tile manufacturing using oil or gas fired kiln, Coating on glasses using cerium fluoride, magnesium fluoride etc,

28

Glue from starch (physical mixing)

29

Gravure printing, digital printing on flex, vinyl

30

Heat treatment using oil fired furnace (excluding cyaniding)

31

Hotels (Less than 3 star) or hotels having > 20 rooms and less than 100 rooms.

32

Infrastructure development project (other than those covered under Red & Green)

33

Jute processing without dyeing

34

Liquid flour cleaner, black phenyl, liquid soap, glyserol monostearate manufacturing

35

Manufacture of mirror from sheet glass

36

Manufacturing of iodized salt from crude/raw salt

37

Manufacturing of mosquito repellent coil

38

Manufacturing of tooth powder, toothpaste, talcum powder and other cosmetic items

39

Mechanized laundry using oil fired boiler

40

Modular wooden furniture from particle board, MDF, swan timber etc, Celling tiles/ partition board from saw dust, wood chips etc. & other agricultural waste using synthetic adhesive resin, wooden box making

41

Packing materials manufacturing from non asbestos fibre, vegetable fibre yarn

42

Paint blending & mixing (Ball mill)

43

Pharmaceutical formulation and for R&D purpose (for sustained release/extended release of drugs only and not for commercial purpose)

44

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

45

Potable alcohol (IMFL) by blending, bottling of alcoholic products including Arrack bottling

46

Printing ink manufacturing

47

Printing or etching of glass sheet using hydrofluoric acid

48

Producer gas plant using conventional up-drift coal gasification (linked to rolling mills, glass and ceramic industry, refractories for dedicated fuel supply)

49

Pulverisation of bamboo and scrap wood

50

Reprocessing of waste plastic (excluding PVC)

51

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

52

Seasoning of wood in steam heated chamber

53

Silk screen printing, Saree printing by wooden blocks

54

Spray painting, paint baking, paint stripping

55

Tamarind powder manufacturing

56

Thermocol manufacturing

57

Thermometer making

58

Transformer repairing/manufacturing

59

Tyres and tubes vulcanization/hot retreading

60

Wire drawing & Wire netting

61

Automobile leaf springs.

62

Boiled rice (steamed) / paraboiled rice

63

Cement bulk storage attached with bagging plant/bulk supply in tankers

64

Fenny manufacture

65

Flour Mills with wastewater generation

66

Fragrance, flavours and food additives

67

Milk chilling center

68

Potassium permanganate

69

Pulverizing activity

70

Repairing, cleaning, degreasing, painting and leak proof testing of L.P.G. cylinders and manufacture of cylinders caps for L.P.G. cylinders

71

Sago units

72

Shell grit and shell grit powder

73

Soft drinks, aerated waters including pulp based

74

Solvent extraction plants (excluding refining)

75

Surgical and Medical Products not containing prophylactics and latex product

76

Surgical gauges and bandages involving effluents and emissions

77

Manufacture of Chocolate, cocoa, mass etc., (Other than confectioneries)


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