Category of Industies

To simplify the procedures and to categorize the industrial projects on the basis of the pollution potential in a simple way so that common person can understand the severity of pollution from a specific industry, it is required to categorise the industries or projects in three broad categories viz. Red, Orange and Green in decreasing order of severity of pollution. As the ecological configuration and sensitivity together with geo-meteorological parameters widely from place to place there cannot be a uniform classification through out the country.

In this classification, "Red" represents highly polluting industries, 'Orange' represents moderately polluting industries and 'Green' represents marginally polluting units. This classification helps the common people to understand about pollution as well as prioritization of plans and programmes of pollution control and surveillance according pollution potential of a particular category of industry. The State Board has adopted the following
classification in each category of industries/projects.

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 :-   18. Anodizing 19. Asbestos and asbestos-based industries. 20. Automobile manufacturing / assembling 21. Ceramic/refractories. 22. Chemical, petrochemical and electrochemical including manufacture of acids such as Sulphuric Acid, Nitric Acid, Phosphoric Acid etc. 23. Chlorates, perchlorates and peroxides. 24. Chlorine, fluorine, bromine, iodine and their compounds. 25. Coke making, coal liquefaction, coaltar distillation or fuel gas making. 26. Common Effluent Treatment Plant 27. Dry coal processing/Mineral processing industries like ore sintering, palletization etc. 28. Explosive including detonators, fuses etc. 29. Fermentation industry including manufacture of yeast, beer etc. 30. Fire crackers. 31. Foundries 32. Glass and fiber glass production and processing (excluding moulding). 33. Glue and gelatin. 34. Heavy Engineering 35. Hospitals 36. Hot mix plants 37. Hydrocyanic acid and its derivatives. 38. Incineration plant. 39. Industrial carbon including electrodes and graphite blocks, activated carbon, carbon black etc. 40. 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. 41. Industry or process involving electroplating operations. 42. Industry or process involving foundry operations. 43. Industry or process involving metal treatment or processes such as pickling, surface coating, paint baking, paint stripping, heat treatment, phosphating or finishing etc. 44. Lead re-processing and manufacturing including lead smelting. 45. Lime manufacturing. 46. Lubricating oils, greases or petroleum - based products. 47. Milk processing and dairy products (Integrated project) 48. Mining and ore-beneficiation. 49. Organic Chemical manufacturing 50. Parboiled rice mills 51. Paints and varnishes (excluding blending / mixing). 52. Petroleum products manufacturing & oil / crude oil/ residues reprocessing 53. Phosphorous rock processing plants. 54. Phosphorous and its compounds. 55. Photographic films and chemicals. 56. Pigments and intermediates. 57. Potable alcohol (IMFL) by blending or distillation of alcohol. 58. Power generating plants (excluding D.G. Sets) 59. Processes involving chlorinated hydrocarbon. 60. Ship breaking 61. Slaughter houses and meat processing units. 62. 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. 63. Stone crushers. 64. Surgical and medical products involving prophylactics and latex. 65. Synthetic detergent and soap. 66. Synthetic fibers including rayon, tyre cords, polyester filament yarn. 67. Synthetic resins. 68. Synthetic rubber excluding moulding. 69. Tobacco products including cigarettes and tobacco processing. 70. Vegetable oils including solvent extracted oils, hydrogenated oils. 71. Yarn and textile processing involving scouring, bleaching, dyeing, printing or any effluent/emission generating process.