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REGD. No. D. L.-33004/99
The Gazette of India
CG-DL-E-13112024-258619
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 3—Sub-section (i)
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 643]
NEW DELHI, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2024/KARTIKA 21, 1946
MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi,the 12th November, 2024
G.S.R. 702(E).—In exercise of power conferred by the proviso to sub-section (1) of section 21 of the Air
(Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 (14 of 1981), the Central Government, in consultation with the
Central Pollution Control Board, exempts the following categories of industrial plants from the application of the
provisions of the said sub-section, namely:-
(a) all industrial plants having pollution index score upto 20 as listed in the Schedule to this notification,
subject to condition that such plant shall inform in writing to the State Pollution Control Boards or the Pollution
Control Committees;
(b) all industrial plants which have obtained prior environmental clearance as per the notification of the
Government of India in the erstwhile Ministry of Environment and Forests number S.O. 1533(E), dated the 14th
September, 2006 issued under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (29 of 1986), in respect of previous consent to
establish such plant.
Subject to the provisions of the Act and this notification, MoEFCC may issue necessary standard operating
procedure for streamlining implementation of this notification, as deemed appropriate.
(No. Q-15012/2/2022-CPW-Part(1) /e-240741)
VED PRAKASH MISHRA, Jt.Secy.
SCHEDULE
LIST OF WHITE CATEGORY OF SECTORS CLASSIFIED BY CPCB FROM TIME TO TIME, AS PER
THE 2016 CLASSIFICATION METHODOLOGY
1. Assembly of air coolers /conditioners, repairing and servicing
2. Assembly of bicycles, baby carriages and other small non motorizing vehicles
3. Bailing (hydraulic press) of waste papers
4. Bio fertilizer and bio-pesticides without using inorganic chemicals
5. Biscuits trays etc from rolled PVC sheet (using automatic vacuum forming machines)
6. Blending and packing of tea
7. Block making of printing without foundry (excluding wooden block making)
8. Chalk making from plaster of Paris (only casting without boilers etc. (sun drying / electrical oven)
9. Compressed oxygen gas from crude liquid oxygen (without use of any solvents and by maintaining pressure
& temperature only for separation of other gases)
10. Cotton and woolen hosiers making (Dry process only without any dying / washing operation)
11. Diesel pump repairing and servicing (complete mechanical dry process)
12. Electric lamp (bulb) and CFL manufacturing by assembling only
13. Electrical and electronic item assembling (completely dry process)
14. Engineering and fabrication units (dry process without any heat treatment / metal surface finishing operations
/ painting)
15. Flavoured betel nuts production/ grinding (completely dry mechanical operations)
16. Fly ash bricks/ block manufacturing
17. Fountain pen manufacturing by assembling only
18. Glass ampules and vials making from glass tubes
19. Glass putty and sealant (by mixing with machine only)
20. Ground nut decorticating
21. Handloom/ carpet weaving (without dying and bleaching operation)
22. Leather cutting and stitching (more than 10 machine and using motor)
23. Manufacturing of coir items from coconut husks
24. Manufacturing of metal caps containers etc
25. Manufacturing of shoe brush and wire brush
26. Medical oxygen
27. Organic and inorganic nutrients (by physical mixing)
28. Organic manure (manual mixing)
29. Packing of powdered milk
30. Paper pins and u clips
31. Repairing of electric motors and generators (dry mechanical process)
32. Rope (plastic and cotton)
33. Scientific and mathematical instrument manufacturing
34. Solar module non-conventional energy apparatus manufacturing unit
35. Solar power generation through solar photovoltaic cell, wind power and mini hydel power (less than 25 MW)
36. Surgical and medical products assembling only (not involving effluent / emission generating processes)
37. Used Cooking Oil Collection (UCO) Center*
38. Household Bio-digesters/gobar-gas (cow-dung) plants based on biodegradable waste etc.**
39. 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**
Entries from S. No. 1 to 36 were classified vide CPCB letter no. B-29012/ESS(CPA)/2015-16 dated 07.03.2016.
*Classified vide CPCB letter no. B-29016/ROGW/IPC-VI/2020-21, dated 30.04.2020.
**Classified vide CPCB letter no. CPCB/IPC-VI/ROGW/6686-6730, dated 22.09.2021.
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