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Classification of categories of industry

List of Industries under SPECIAL RED Category
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Acid lead batteries including lead plate casting (more than 10 batteries per day)
All mining activities including queries
Aluminium smelter
Asbestos and asbestos-based industries
Basic drug & pharmaceutical (excluding formulation)
Calcium carbide manufacturing
Cast iron foundry
Cement (excluding simple grinding)
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
Chlorates, perchlorates and peroxides
Chlorine, fluorine, bromine, iodine and their compounds
Chloro alkali
Coke making, coal liquefaction, coal tar distillation, processing of coal tar distillate or fuel gas making, coke
briquetting (excluding sundrying)
Copper smelter
Dichromate and chromates & basic chrome sulfate
Distillery including fermentation industry (including manufacture of yeast & beer)
Dyes and dye-intermediates
Electroplating operations
Explosives including detonators, fuses etc. & their storage
Ferrous & Non-ferrous metal extraction (different furnaces & smelting), refining, casting, forging (with coal
fired boilers), alloy making etc.
Fertiliser (Basic) (excluding granulation & formulation only)
Glass and ceramics (excluding tile manufacturing) using coal fired kiln
Hazardous waste/Bio-medical waste disposal facilities
Hydrocyanic acid and its derivatives
Incineration plants
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.
Integrated textile mills (processing involving scouring, bleaching, dyeing, printing or any effluent/emission
generating process) and dyeing of other fabrics
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.
Isolated storage of hazardous chemicals (as per schedule of Manufacture, Storage & Import of Hazardous
Chemicals Rules, 1989), etc.
Lead smelting, refining and manufacture of its oxides
Non-alcoholic beverages (soft drinks) and only bottling of alcoholic products (capital investment on plant &
machinery > 1 crore)
Oil refinery (Mineral oil or Petro refineries)
Paints and varnishes (excluding units with only blending & mixing)
Pesticides (including formulation)
Petrochemicals (manufacture of and not merely use of as raw material)
Phenolic products
Phosphorous and its compounds

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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

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List of Industries under ORDINARY RED Category

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Acid slurry (sulphonation)

Almirah manufacturing (not permitted in municipal areas of West Bengal)
Bitumen processing and products
Bone Mill
Composite woollen mill including dewaxing of raw wool and raw silk
Ceramic colour manufacturing (using boiler)
Dairy and dairy products (integrated project, capital investment on plant & machinery > Rs. 1 crore)
Dry coal processing/Mineral processing industries like ore sintering, pelletization, grinding and pulverisation
etc.
Earthen potteries & tile manufacturing (using coal or wood fired kiln)
Electric lamp (bulb) manufacturing (large scale)
Fibre glass and glass wool production
Food & food processing including fruits & vegetable processing (with capital investment on plant & machinery
> Rs. 1 crore)
Glue (excluding glue from starch), gelatine and synthetic adhesives
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)
Grill manufacturing (not permitted in municipal areas of West Bengal)
Health care establishment
Handicrafts products like terracotta work
Industrial carbon including electrodes and graphite blocks, activated carbon, carbon black etc.
Industrial or inorganic gases (excluding medical oxygen)
Jute processing with dyeing
Lime manufacturing
Lubricating oils, greases or petroleum based products (excluding blending at normal temperature)
Manufacturing & reprocessing of PVC granules and manufacturing of reprocessed PVC products
Manufacturing of silica gel with furnace
Manufacturing of toothpowder, toothpaste, talcum powder and other cosmetic items (large & medium scale)
Manufacturing of pasted veneers using boiler or Thermic Fluid Heater
Manufacturing of umbrella (including manufacturing of metallic handle and sticks)
Manufacturing of optical lenses (using furnace other than electric furnace)
Photographic films and chemicals
Plyboard manufacturing (including vineer & laminate) with coal or waste wood fired boiler / thermic fluid heater
(with captive resin manufacturing plant)
Reclamation of rubber, manufacture of rubber solution containing mineral naptha & rubber wastes, rubber
based adhesives
Refractories
Rubber goods industry (with boiler)
Shellac processing
Spice grinding (> 20 HP motor)
Stone crushing
Straw board, gray board, duplex board and paper manufacturing by hydropulping and with or without using
boiler
Surgical and medical products involving prophylactics and latex
Synthetic detergent (excluding formulation ) and soap (with steam boiling)
Tyres and tubes vulcanization/hot retreading (using coal fired boiler)/moulding
Wood charcoal manufacturing and processing

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List of Industries under ORANGE Category

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

Ayurvedic and Homeopathic medicine (with boiler)
Bakery & confectionery [(a) with production capacity < 10 tpd with coal & wood fired oven and (b) all units
with production capacity 10 tpd]
Bleaching of fabrics, yarn
Brickfields (excluding fly ash brick manufacturing using lime process)
Cashewnut processing
Cement grinding (excluding coal fired drier)
Chilling plant, cold storage and Ice making
Chira mill
Coffee seed processing
Coke briquetting (sun drying)
Cotton spinning and weaving (medium and large scale)
Dry cell battery (excluding manufacturing of electrodes)
Engineering and fabrication units
Fire works manufacturing and storage
Fish feed, poultry feed and cattle feed
Fish processing and packaging (excluding chilling of fish)
Foam manufacturing
Food & food processing including fruits & vegetable processing (capital investment on plant & machinery >
Rs.10 lakhs but < Rs. 1 crore)
Forging of ferrous & non-ferrous metal (using oil or gas fired boilers)
Gravure printing
Glass, ceramic, earthen potteries and tile manufacturing using oil or gas fired kiln
Hardware manufacturing for computer and other information technology instruments
Heat treatment using oil fired furnace (excluding cyniding)
Hotels & Restaurants (capital investment on land, building, plant & machinery > 30 lakhs)
Housing complexes with more than 100 flats or more than 60000 sq. ft. super built up area
Husking mill
Ice cream
Infrastructure development project with capital investment more than Rs. 5 crores
Jute processing without dyeing
Manufacture of mirror from sheet glass
Manufacturing of ferrous and non-ferrous metal products (without using any heating equipment)
Organic nutrients (excluding simple mixing)
Paint blending & mixing (Ball mill)
Pharmaceutical formulation (capital investment plant & machinery Rs. 10 lacs)
Plyboard manufacturing (including vineer & laminate) with oil fired boiler/ thermic fluid heater (without resin
plant)
Poultry, hatchery, piggery (capital investment on land, building, plant & machinery Rs. 10 lacs)
Power press
Pulverisation of bamboo and scrapwood
Printing ink manufacturing
Printing or etching of glass sheet using hydrofluoric acid (small scale)
Puffed rice (muri) (using husk or coal fired chullah or vatti)
Reprocessing of waste plastic (excluding PVC)
Rice mill & rice hullers
Rolling Mill (oil or gas fired) and cold Rolling mill
Saw mill
Silk screen printing
Spray painting, paint baking, paint stripping
Storage of hides and processing of tallow
Synthetic detergents formulation (capital investment on plant & machinery Rs. 5 lacs)
Tea processing
Tobacco products including cigarettes and tobacco processing

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53. Tyres and tubes vulcanization/hot retreading (using oil or gas fired boiler)
54. Wire drawing (cold process) and bailing straps
55. Wire netting

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List of industries under GREEN category

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Acid lead battery (up to 10 batteries per day excluding lead plate casting)
Aluminium utensils from aluminium circles
Assembly of air coolers/conditioners, repairing and servicing
Assembly of bicycles, baby carriage and other small non-motorised vehicles
Automobile fuel outlet (only dispensing)
Ayurvedic and Homeopathic medicine (without boiler)
Bakery & Confectionery (with production capacity < 10tpd with oil, gas or electrical oven)
Block making for printing without foundry (excluding wooden block making)
Brass & Bell metal utensils manufacturing from circle (without re-Rolling facility)
Candy
Cardboard or corrugated box and paper products (excluding paper or pulp manufacturing and without using
boiler)
Carpet weaving
Cement products like pipe, pillar, jafri, well ring etc. (should be done under closed covered shed to control
cement dust spreading)
Ceramic colour manufacturing (not using boiler and wastewater recycling process)
Chilling plant and Ice making without use of ammonia
Coated electrode manufacturing
Colour/Black & White studio
Cotton and woolen hosiery making
Cotton spinning & weaving (small scale)
Cutting, sizing and polishing of marble stones
Decoration of ceramic cups & plates by electric furnace
Dairy and dairy products (small scale) (capital investment on plant & machinery < Rs. 1 crore)
Dal Mills
Diesel Generator sets (15 KVA and above) for residential buildings, commercial buildings and healthcare
organization
Diesel pump repairing & servicing
Distilled water
Electric lamp (bulb) manufacturing (small scale)
Electrical & electronic goods manufacturing
Electronic equipment assembling
Fertiliser (granulation and formulation only)
Flour mills (dry process)
Fly ash bricks manufacturing (lime process)
Food & food processing including fruits & vegetable processing (capital investment on plant & machinery <
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Fountain pen manufacturing
Glue from starch
Glass, ceramic, earthen potteries and tile manufacturing using electrical kiln or not involving kiln
Glass putty and sealant
Groundnut decorticating (dry)
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)
Handloom weaving (without dyeing and bleaching operation)
Hotel & Restaurants (capital investment land, building, plant & machinery < Rs.30 lakhs) and Boarding &
lodging house
Insulation and other coated papers (excluding paper or pulp manufacturing) manufacturing
Jobbing and machining
Laboratory-wares
Leather cutting and stitching (more than 10 machines and using motor)
Leather footwear and leather products (excluding tanning and hide processing) (except cottage scale)
Lubricating oils, greases or petroleum based products (only blending at normal temperature)
Manufacturing of pasted veneers without using boiler or Thermic Fluid Heater or by sundrying
Manufacturing of metal caps and containers
Manufacturing of shoe brush & wire brush

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Manufacturing of toothpowder, toothpaste, talcum powder and other cosmetic items (small scale)
Manufacturing of optical lenses (using electrical furnace)
Medical oxygen
Manufacturing of silica gel (without furnace)
Mineralized water
Manufacturing of coir items from coconut husk
Non-alcoholic beverages (soft drinks) and only bottling of alcoholic products (capital investment on plant &
machinery < Rs. 1 crore)
Oil mill ghani & extraction (no hydrogenation/refining)
Organic and inorganic nutrients (by simple mixing)
Paints and vernishes (mixing and blending) (without ball mill)
Paper pins and U-clips
Pharmaceutical formulation (capital investment on plant & machinery < Rs.10 lakhs)
Phenyl manufacturing
Polythene & plastic processed products manufacturing (excluding manufacturing & reprocessing of PVC
granules and manufacturing of reprocessed PVC products and reprocessing of waste plastic)
Poultry, hatchery, piggery (capital investment on land, building, plant & machinery < Rs. 10 lacs)
Power looms (without dyeing and bleaching)
Printing press
Puffed rice (muri) (using oil, gas or electrical heating system)
Rope (Cotton & Plastic)
Rubber goods industry (without boiler)
Scientific and mathematical instruments manufacturing
Soap manufacturing (without steam boiling)
Spice grinding (< 20 HP motor)
Steel furniture without spray painting
Steeping and processing of grains
Supari (Betelnut) grinding
Surgical and medical products not involving effluent/emission generating processes
Sweet shop
Synthetic detergent formulation (capital investment on plant & machinery < Rs. 5 lakhs)
Tea garden only
Teflon based products
Thermocol manufacturing
Thermometer making
Toys (only electronic & mechanical) manufacturing
Transformer repairing/manufacturing (should not be allowed in congested areas)
Tyres and tubes retreading (without boiler)
Vineer, laminate (without boiler and thermic fluid heater)
Washing of used sand by hydraulic discharge
Washing, chilling of fish and packaging only
Water softening and demineralised plants

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List of industries under EXEMPTED category

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Assembly of domestic electrical appliances, servicing & repairing
Atta Chakkis (wheat grinding)
Auto Emission Testing Centres
Ball pen refill
Bamboo and Cane products (only dry operation)
Biogas Plant
Black smithy (should not be allowed in congested areas)
Book Binding
Cable TV network
Candles manufacturing
Carpentry and wooden furniture making (excluding saw mill)
Coir manufacturing
Cyber caf
Diesel Generator sets (< 15 KVA) sets for residential buildings, commercial buildings and health care
organisation
Gold and silver smithy (excluding purification/ polishing with any acid and smelting operation)
Handicraft products like conchshell, coconutshell, dokra, cane and bamboo products, baluchari saree, stone
carving, wood carving, batik, sola work etc.
Handloom weaving (without dyeing & bleaching)
Handmade paper
Hardware assembling for IT industries
Housing complex with 100 flats or less and 60000 sq. ft. super built up area or less
Infrastructure development project with capital investment Rs. 5 crores or less
Leather cutting and stitching (not more than or equal to 10 machines and without using motor)
Leather footwear & leather products (excluding tanning & hide processing) (cottage scale only)
Manual brass painting
Manufacture of steel trunks & suitcases
Mashroom Plantation and spawn
Manufacturing of umbrella (only assembling)
Musical instrument manufacturing
Optical frames
Optical lens manufacturing (without furnace)
Photo framing
Radio assembling servicing & repairing work
Repairing & servicing of bicycles, baby carriage and other non-motorised vehicles
Repairing & servicing of electronic equipment
Shoelace manufacturing
Soap (handmade)
Soft toys, wooden toys manufacturing
Software development for information & technology industry
Sports goods manufacturing
Tank calibration centre
Tailoring & garment stitching/garment & Apparel manufacturing
Tea packaging
Weigh bridge (not manufacturing)
Wooden block making for printing
Xerox & Photocopying
Zari embroidery work

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