“The new category of white industries, which is practically non-polluting, will not require environmental clearance (EC) and consent. This is a landmark decision to give a fair picture of the industries,” Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said after releasing the new categorization of industries.
In a major step towards ‘ease of doing business’, government has re-classified industries in four colour scheme- Red, Green, Orange and White. Under the new categorization, the most polluting industry will fall under Red color and industries which moderately pollute will be under orange.
Industries that have low pollution will be considered as green category and the industries which emit no pollution will be classified as white category.
The new system is based on the pollution index. Pollution Index ranges from 0 to 100 where a higher number indicates higher pollution load from the industrial sector. The index is derived from the quantity of emissions (contamination of air), effluents (water pollution), hazardous wastes generated and consumption of resources by an industry.
“The new system of re-categorization is based on an elaborate scientific exercise. The new categories will remove this lacuna and will give clear picture to everyone” Javadekar added.
The Environment Ministry said that 60 industries, including pesticides, oil refinery, sugar, thermal power plants etc which have a pollution index score of 60 and above, will be placed under red category. 83 industries like automobile servicing, Hotels and restaurants etc which ranges between 41 and 59 will be in the orange category.
Similarly, 63 industries like dal and flour mills, polythene and plastic products, marble stone and Oil and gas transportation pipeline etc which have a pollution index score between 21 and 40, have been kept in the green category and further 36 industries which have no pollution index will be considered in white category.
The new scheme may compel industries to adopt a cleaner technology and it will also help to get fund as there will not be any restriction for businesses. It will ensure smooth business with vying all environmental issues.
Table 1: List of Red Category of Industries
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Sl No. |
Industry Sector | Sl No. | Industry Sector |
| 1 | Isolated storage of hazardous chemicals | 39 |
Yarn / Textile processing |
| 2 | Automobile Manufacturing (integrated) | 40 | Chlor Alkali |
| 3 | Hazardous waste recycling (Spent cleared metal catalyst ) | 41 | Ship Breaking |
| 4 | Lubricating oils and grease mfg. | 42 | Oil and gas extraction |
| 5 | DG Set (> 5 MVA) | 43 | Metal surface treatment |
| 6 | Carbon black & allied | 44 | Tanneries |
| 7 | Lead acid battery | 45 | Ports /harbor/jetties |
| 8 | Phosphate rock processing | 46 | Synthetic fibers |
| 9 | Power generation plant | 47 | Thermal Power Plants |
| 10 | Hazardous Waste Recyclers (Spent catalyst) | 48 | Slaughter house |
| 11 | Chlorinated hydrocarbons | 49 | Aluminium Smelter |
| 12 | Sugar | 50 | Copper Smelter |
| 13 | Fibre glass production | 51 | Fertilizer (basic) |
| 14 | Fire crackers | 52 | Integrated Iron & Steel |
| 15 | E-Waste Recyclers | 53 | Pulp & Paper ( bleaching) |
| 15 | Milk and dairy products | 54 | Zinc Smelter |
| 17 | Phosphorous | 55 | Oil Refinery |
| 18 | Pulp & Paper | 56 | Petrochemicals |
| 19 | Coke making | 57 | Pharmaceuticals |
| 20 | Explosives / detonators | 58 | Pulp & Paper ( Large-Agro + wood), |
| 21 | Paints varnishes, pigments | 59 | Distillery |
| 22 | Organic Chemicals | 60 | Railway locomotive work shop/ service centers |
| 23 | Airports and Commercial Air Strips | ||
| 24 | Asbestos | ||
| 25 | Basic chemicals | ||
| 26 | Cement | ||
| 27 | Chlorates, per-chlorates & peroxides | ||
| 28 | Chlorine, fluorine, bromine, iodine | ||
| 29 | Dyes and Dye- Intermediates | ||
| 30 | Health-care Establishment | ||
| 31 | Hotels (Big) | ||
| 32 | Lead acid battery -recyclers | ||
| 33 | Waste electrical and electronic recyclers | ||
| 34 | Glue and gelatin | ||
| 35 | Mining and ore beneficiation | ||
| 36 | Nuclear power plant | ||
| 37 | Pesticides | ||
| 38 | Photographic film /chemicals | ||
Table 2: List of Orange Category of Industries
| Sl. No. | Industry Sector | Sl. No. | Industry Sector |
| 1 | Almirah, Grill Manufacturing | 43 | Large Cotton spinning and weaving |
| 2 | Aluminium & copper extraction from scrap | 44 | Lime manufacturing (using lime kiln) |
| 3 | Automobile servicing, repairing | 45 | Liquid floor cleaner, black phenyl |
| 4 | Ayurvedic and homeopathic medicine | 46 | Manufacturing of glass |
| 5 | Brickfields | 47 | Manufacturing of mirror from sheet glass |
| 6 | Building and construction >20,000 sq. m | 48 | Manufacturing of mosquito repellent coil |
| 7 | Cashew nut processing | 49 | Manufacturing of Starch/Sago |
| 8 | Ceramics and Refractories | 50 | Mechanized laundry using oil fired boiler |
| 9 | Chanachur and ladoo using husk fired oven | 51 | Medium scale Hotels |
| 10 | Coal washeries | 52 | Modular wooden furniture |
| 11 | Coated electrode | 53 | New highway construction project |
| 12 | Coffee seed processing | 54 | Non-alcoholic beverages(soft drink) |
| 13 | Compact disc computer floppy | 55 | Paint blending and mixing (Ball mill) |
| 14 | Copper waste recyclers | 56 | Paints and varnishes (mixing and blending) |
| 15 | Dairy and dairy products ( small scale) | 57 | Parboiled Rice Mills |
| 16 | DG set ( >1MVA but < 5MVA) | 58 | Pharmaceutical formulation |
| 17 | Dismantling of rolling stocks | 59 | Ply-board manufacturing |
| 18 | Dry cell battery | 60 | Potable alcohol ( IMFL) by blending |
| 19 | Dry coal / mineral processing | 61 | Printing ink manufacturing |
| 20 | Fermentation (Extra Neutral Alcohol) | 62 | Printing or etching of glass sheet |
| 21 | Ferrous and Non- ferrous metal extraction | 63 | Printing press |
| 22 | Fertilizer (granulation / formulation / blending | 64 | Producer gas plant |
| 23 | Fish feed, poultry feed and cattle feed | 65 | Recyclers – used oils |
| 24 | Fish processing and packing | 66 | REcyclers – waste oils |
| 25 | Flakes from rejected PET bottle | 67 | Recycling – Paint and ink Sludge |
| 26 | Foam manufacturing | 68 | Reprocessing of waste plastic /PVC |
| 27 | Food and food processing | 69 | Rolling mill (oil or coal fired) |
| 28 | Forging of ferrous and non- ferrous | 70 | Silica gel |
| 29 | Formulation/pelletization of camphor tablets etc. | 71 | Silk /saree screen printing |
| 30 | Glass ceramics, earthen potteries and tile | 72 | Spray painting |
| 31 | Gravure printing, digital printing on flex, v | 73 | Steel and steel products with furnaces |
| 32 | Heat treatment using oil fired furnace | 74 | Stone crushers |
| 33 | Hot mix plants | 75 | Surgical and medical products (latex) |
| 34 | Ice cream | 76 | Synthetic detergents and soaps |
| 35 | Industry or processes involving foundry operations | 77 | Synthetic resins |
| 36 | Iodized salt from crude/ raw salt | 78 | Synthetic rubber excluding molding |
| 37 | Jute processing without dyeing | 79 | Tephlon based products |
| 38 | large Bakery and confectionery | 80 | Thermocol manufacturing ( with boiler) |
| 39 | Transformer repairing/ manufacturing | 81 | Thermometer |
| 40 | Tyres and tubes vulcanization/ hot retread | 82 | Tobacco products including cigarettes |
| 41 | Vegetable oil manufacturing | 83 | Tooth powder, toothpaste, talcum powder |
| 42 | Wire drawing and wire netting | ||
Table 3: List of Green category of Industries
| Sl. No. | Industry Sector | Sl. No. | Industry Sector |
| 1 | Aluminium utensils | 36 | Ready mix cement concrete |
| 2 | Ayurvedic medicines | 37 | Reprocessing of waste cotton |
| 3 | Small Bakery /confectionery | 38 | Rice mill (Rice hullers only) |
| 4 | PP film | 39 | Rolling mill ( gas fired) and cold rolling mill |
| 5 | Biomass briquettes | 40 | Rubber goods (gas operated baby boiler) |
| 6 | Melamine resins | 41 | Saw mills |
| 7 | Brass and bell metal utensils | 42 | Soap manufacturing |
| 8 | Candy | 43 | Spice Blending |
| 9 | Cardboard / corrugated box | 44 | Spice grinding |
| 10 | Carpentry & wooden furniture | 45 | Steel furniture |
| 11 | Cement products | 46 | Grains processing |
| 12 | Ceramic colour by mixing | 47 | Tyres /tube retreating |
| 13 | Chilling plant and ice making | 48 | Chilling /ice plant |
| 14 | Coke briquetting | 49 | CO2 recovery |
| 15 | Small Cotton spinning and weaving | 50 | Distilled water |
| 16 | Dal Mills | 51 | Small Hotels |
| 17 | Decoration of ceramic cups | 52 | Optical lenses |
| 18 | Digital printing on PVC clothes | 53 | Mineralized water |
| 19 | Handling, storage of food grains | 54 | Tamarind powder |
| 20 | Flour mills | 55 | Marble stone |
| 21 | Electrical Glass , ceramic, earthen potteries | 56 | Emery powder |
| 22 | Glue from starch | 57 | Flyash export |
| 23 | Gold and silver smithy | 58 | Mineral stack yard |
| 24 | Non-polluting Heat treatment | 59 | Oil and gas transportation pipeline |
| 25 | Insulation /coated papers | 60 | Seasoning of wood |
| 26 | Leather foot wear /products | 61 | Synthetic detergent |
| 27 | Blending of Lubricating oil, greases | 62 | Tea processing |
| 28 | Pasted veneers | 63 | Pulverization of bamboo |
| 29 | Oil mill Ghani | ||
| 30 | Packing materials | ||
| 31 | Phenyl/toilet cleaner | ||
| 32 | Polythene and plastic products | ||
| 33 | Poultry, Hatchery and Piggery | ||
| 34 | Power looms (without dye and bleaching) | ||
| 35 | Puffed rice (muri) (gas or electrical heating) | ||
Table 4: List of White category of Industries
| Sl. No. | Industry Sector |
| 1. | Air coolers /conditioners |
| 2. | Bicycles ,baby carriages |
| 3. | Bailing of waste papers |
| 4. | Bio fertilizer /bio-pesticides |
| 5. | Biscuits trays |
| 6. | Blending / packing of tea |
| 7. | Block making of printing |
| 8. | Chalk making |
| 9. | Compressed oxygen gas |
| 10. | Cotton and woolen hosiers |
| 11. | Diesel pump repairing |
| 12. | Electric lamp ( bulb) and CFL |
| 13. | Electrical and electronic item |
| 14. | Engineering and fabrication units |
| 15. | Flavoured betel nuts |
| 16. | Fly ash bricks/ block |
| 17. | Fountain pen |
| 18. | Glass ampules |
| 19. | Glass putty and sealant |
| 20. | Ground nut decorticating |
| 21. | Handloom/ carpet weaving |
| 22. | Leather cutting and stitching |
| 23. | Coir items from coconut husks |
| 24. | Metal caps containers etc |
| 25. | Shoe brush and wire brush |
| 26. | Medical oxygen |
| 27. | Organic and inorganic nutrients |
| 28. | Organic manure |
| 29. | Packing of powdered milk |
| 30. | Paper pins and u clips |
| 31. | Repairing of electric motors /generators |
| 32. | Rope (plastic and cotton) |
| 33. | Scientific and mathematical instrument |
| 34. | Solar module non-conventional energy apparatus |
| 35. | Solar power generation through solar photovoltaic cell, wind power and mini hydel power (less than 25 MW) |
| 36. | Surgical and medical products assembling |
Table Source: PIB
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