Pollution Control License For Industrial Units

 

It is mandatory for every Industrial unit to take pollution control license from Pollution Control Board and take measures to prevent Environmental Damage. Pollution caused by industries can be in any form like air emissions, wastewater discharge, hazardous waste generation, Plastic waste, Electronic waste, Battery waste which are toxic for environment and potential health hazard for humans.

 

 

CATEGORIZATION OF INDUSTRIAL SECTORS

 

CPCB has developed the criteria of categorization of industrial sectors based on the Pollution Index which is a function of the emissions (air pollutants), effluents (water pollutants), hazardous wastes generated and consumption of resources.

 

 The Pollution Index PI of any industrial sector is a number from 0 to 100 and the increasing value of PI denotes the increasing degree of pollution load from the industrial sector. Based on this industry has been categorized into white, green, Orange and Red Category.

 

Category	Pollution Index	Pollution Potential	Few Types of Industries
White	Industrial Sectors having Pollution Index score incl. & upto 20	No Pollution	Light Engineering Works, Sheet Metal Fabrication,   Garments stitching, tailoring   Assembly and Repair of Electrical Gadgets
Green	Industrial Sectors having Pollution Index score of 21 to 40	Less polluting	PVC Granules and Other Injection Moulded Items   Mfg. of  Plastic Packaging material
Orange	Industrial Sectors having Pollution Index score of 41 to 59	Considerable Polluting	Printing    Metal Casting   Automobile Servicing
Red	Industrial Sectors having Pollution Index score of 60 and above	Highly  Polluting	Electroplating   Pickling   Dyeing

 

If you run any industrial unit just note down simple steps for obtaining pollution control license. (For Green, Orange and Red Category Industries)

 

First register your industrial unit in your State Pollution Control Board Website by providing general details like Industry name, address. You will get a userI'd and password.

 

Second apply for Consent to Establish or CTE by filing industry details such as product manufactured, raw material, water consumption, wastewater generation, air emissions, hazardous waste etc, as applicable to your unit and attach requisite documents and pay requisite fee.

 

This application would be processed in Pollution Control Board. In case of any discrepancies in application, Pollution Control Board Officer would raise query/clarification online. Submit reply to this clarification. On successful submission of reply to all queries you shall be granted Consent To Establish Certificate.

 

 By the means of Consent to Establish Certificate, you get time to establish your manufacturing unit, Set up machinery. Then install pollution control devices such as Effluent Treatment Plant, Sewage Treatment Plant, Wet Scrubber, Bag filters etc as applicable to your industry. Always ensure that capacity of installed pollution control device is adequate.

 

Get lab testing done by Authorised Laboratory of Pollution Control Board. This report would check whether the installed Pollution Control Device is meeting the requisite Environmental Norms or not.

 

Then apply for Consent to Operate and fill the necessary details and attach the lab reports along with requisite documents as applicable to your industries.

 

Further certain industry need to apply for Authorization under Hazardous WasteManagement, E waste Management,  Battery Waste Management and Registration under Plastic  waste Management.