The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has revised the list of industrial plants falling under the white category of industrial sectors which are exempted from the requirement of obtaining prior permission of State Pollution Control Boards or the Pollution Control Committees under Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act,1974 and Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act,1981 to establish industrial plant.
Key Highlights:
1. The following industrial plants having pollution index score upto 20 will be granted exemption, subject to such plant informs in writing to State Pollution Control Boards or the Pollution Control Committees:
- Assembly of air coolers/conditioners, repairing and servicing
- Assembly of bicycles, baby carriages and other small non motorizing vehicles
- Bailing (hydraulic press) of waste papers
- Bio fertilizer and bio-pesticides without using inorganic chemicals
- Biscuits trays etc from rolled PVC sheet (using automatic vacuum forming machines)
- Blending and packing of tea
- Block making of printing without foundry (excluding wooden block making)
- Chalk making from plaster of Paris (only casting without boilers etc. (sun drying / electrical oven)
- Compressed oxygen gas from crude liquid oxygen (without use of any solvents and by maintaining pressure & temperature only for separation of other gases)
- Cotton and woollen hosiers making (Dry process only without any dying / washing operation)
- Diesel pump repairing and servicing (complete mechanical dry process)
- Electric lamp (bulb) and CFL manufacturing by assembling only
- Electrical and electronic item assembling (completely dry process)
- Engineering and fabrication units (dry process without any heat treatment / metal surface finishing operations / painting)
- Flavoured betel nuts production/ grinding (completely dry mechanical operations)
- Fly ash bricks/ block manufacturing
- Fountain pen manufacturing by assembling only
- Glass ampules and vials making from glass tubes
- Glass putty and sealant (by mixing with machine only)
- Ground nut decorticating
- Handloom/ carpet weaving (without dying and bleaching operation)
- Leather cutting and stitching (more than 10 machine and using motor)
- Manufacturing of coir items from coconut husks
- Manufacturing of metal caps containers etc.
- Manufacturing of shoe brush and wire brush
- Medical oxygen
- Organic and inorganic nutrients (by physical mixing)
- Organic manure (manual mixing)
- Packing of powdered milk
- Paper pins and U clips
- Repairing of electric motors and generators (dry mechanical process)
- Rope (plastic and cotton)
- Scientific and mathematical instrument manufacturing
- Solar module non-conventional energy apparatus manufacturing unit
- Solar power generation through solar photovoltaic cell, wind power and mini hydel power (less than 25 MW)
- Surgical and medical products assembling only (not involving effluent / emission generating processes)
- Used Cooking Oil Collection (UCO) Center
- Household Bio-digesters/gobar-gas (cow-dung) plants based on biodegradable waste etc.
- CBG plants producing FOM & LFOM as by products in conformity with requirements of Gazette Notification No. 2051 dated 14.07.2020 & No. 1972 dated 01.06.2021, respectively, and utilizing entire FOM & LFOM as a fertilizer or manure on land and also not discharging any wastewater.
2. Exemption will be granted to all industrial plants which have obtained prior environmental clearance as per the Notification on Environment Impact Assessment, in respect of previous consent to establish of such plant.
Source: Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
