PART I EXTRAORDINARY

MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION & URBAN DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT

(H1)

ANNAMAYYA URBAN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, KADAPA – GIS BASED MASTER

PLAN OF PRODDATUR MUNICIPALITY IN THE JURISDICTION OF ANUDA – GENERAL

TOWN PLANNING SCHEME (MASTER PLAN) – SANCTION UNDER SECTION 13 OF THE

ANDHRA

PRADESH

METROPOLITAN

REGION

AND

URBAN

DEVELOPMENT

AUTHORITIES ACT, 2016 (ACT NO.5 OF 2016)

[G.O.Ms.No.49,

Municipal

Administration

Urban

Development

(H1)

Department,

17^th April, 2023]

NOTIFICATION

In exercise of the powers conferred under section 13 of the Andhra Pradesh Metropolitan

Region and Urban Development Authorities Act, 2016 (Act 5 of 2016), the Government of Andhra

Pradesh hereby sanction the General Town Planning Scheme (Master Plan) for Proddatur

Municipality, Proddatur and its Vicinity Villages/Panchayats, subject to condition that the Building

Rules and Layout Rules shall be as per the Andhra Pradesh Building Rules, 2017 issued in

G.O.Ms.No.119, MA&UD Department, dated:28.03.2017 and the Andhra Pradesh Land Development

(Layout and Sub-division) Rules, 2017 issued vide G.O.Ms.No.275, MA&UD Department,

dated:18.07.2017, and subsequent amendments thereon from time to time, respectively.

2. The confirmed Master Plan will be opened for perusal of the public at the offices of the

Proddatur Municipality, Proddatur/ANUDA/Vicinity Villages/ Panchayats included in this scheme for

a period of six months.

PRODDATUR PLANNING AREA

ZONING REGULATIONS

Registered No. HSE-49/2016

No.387

AMARAVATI, MONDAY, APRIL 17, 2023

G.29

NOTIFICATIONS BY GOVERNMENT

--x--

Directorate of Town & Country Planning,

Government of Andhra Pradesh Guntur

Contents

INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................

Zoning Regulations .................................................................................................................

Land Use Categories of Master Plan .......................................................................................

Applicability of the Zoning Regulations .................................................................................

Short Title, Scope, Extent & Commencement ........................................................................

Title .....................................................................................................................................

Scope of the Zoning Regulations ........................................................................................

Jurisdiction ..........................................................................................................................

Date of Commencement......................................................................................................

GENERAL CONDITIONS ............................................................................................................

Definitions ..............................................................................................................................

ZONING REGULATIONS ............................................................................................................

3.1 Residential Use Zone ........................................................................................................

3.2 Commercial Use................................................................................................................

3.3 Mixed Use .........................................................................................................................

3.4 Industrial Use ....................................................................................................................

3.5 Public and Semi-Public Use (Institutional) Zone .............................................................

3.6 Public Utilities Use Zone ..................................................................................................

3.7 Recreational Open Space Use Zone ..................................................................................

3.8 Transportation Use Zone ...................................................................................................

3.9 Agricultural Use Zone .......................................................................................................

3.10 Protected Use Zone [PR] ................................................................................................

ANNEXURES ..................................................................................................................................

Category of Industries as per CPCB Norms ...........................................................................

1. INTRODUCTION

Zoning Regulations

It is a statutory document prepared under the provisions and procedures prescribed under the

relevant Acts. The Zoning Regulations are also sanctioned along with the Master Plan. Zoning

Regulations is the legal instrument for implementing the land use policy as proposed in the Master

Plan. Zoning Regulations contain a set of guidelines with regard to the permissibility of the right

use and the correct location of each zone duly prohibiting the conflicting uses in order to achieve

the objective of the Master Plan for orderly development of a given settlement.

Zoning is a planning control tool for regulating the built environment and creating functional

real estate markets. It does so by dividing land that comprises the statutory area of a ULB into

different zones, permitting particular land use on specific sites to shape the layout of towns and

cities and enable various types of development.

The following 09 Development Promotion Zones [DPZ] and 02 Protected use Zone [PR] are

proposed for the Master Plan area of Proddatur.

Land Use Categories of Master Plan:

The categories of land uses proposed in the Master Plan are as follows:

LAND USE ZONES PROPOSED IN MASTER PLAN

Sl. No.

Land Use Zone Category

DEVELOPMENT PROMOTION ZONES [ D P Z ]

Residential Use Zone

(R)

Commercial Use Zone

(C)

Mixed Use Zone

(M)

Industrial Use Zone

a) Work Centre Zone (Green and White category

Industries)

(IW)

b) Hazardous /Polluting industrial Zone (Red and Orange

category Industries)

(IH)

Public and Semi-Public Use [Institutional] Zone

(PS)

Public Utilities Use Zone

(PU)

Recreational Open Space Use Zone

(RE)

Transportation Use Zone

(T)

Agriculture Use Zone

(A)

PROTECTED USE ZONE [ PR ]

Protected (Blue)

(PB)

Protected (Green)

(PG)

Applicability of the Zoning Regulations

a. No development activity like layout, land pooling scheme, building activity or use of

any land shall be permitted unless these are in conformity with the Master Plan land

use, circulation network and the zoning of the uses and activities as given in this

section and the building site requirements as given in these regulations.

b. These regulations however will not prohibit the continuance of existing uses of lands

and buildings that have been lawfully established and have a valid development

permission obtained from the competent authorities as required under the prevailing

statutory provisions and these Zoning and Development Promotion regulations,

provided that no expansion of the existing non-conforming use or activity shall be

permissible provided such conformed use is dangerous to life.

c. All the layouts approved by the competent authorities as required under the

prevailing statutory provisions or plots / layouts regularized by prior to these

regulations and change of land use affected by government in the immediately

preceding notified Master Plan from time to time shall continue to prevail

irrespective of the land use zone proposed in the Master Plan.

Short Title, Scope, Extent & Commencement

Title

These Regulations shall be called the "Zoning Regulations for

Proddatur Planning Area.

Scope of the Zoning Regulations

The scope of these "Zoning Regulations" shall be limited to defining Land Use

Zones and the activities permissible in each land use zone depicted in the Proposed Land

Use Plan forming part of the Master Plan. Other aspects of development will be governed

by relevant Building Rules, Layout Rules etc. issued by the Government from time to

time. Competent Authorities under such regulations shall ensure that the developments

permitted by them are in conformity with these Zoning Regulations.

Jurisdiction

These Zoning Regulations shall apply to Proddatur Master Plan area in Andhra

Pradesh.

Date of Commencement

These regulations shall come into force on such date as notified by the

Government. The implementation and enforcement of the Master Plan shall be in

accordance with these Zoning Regulations herein prescribed.

2. GENERAL CONDITIONS

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, the definition given as

under shall have the meaning indicated against each term. Words and expressions not

defined in these regulations shall have the same meaning or sense as in the Andhra

Pradesh Town Planning Act 1920, Andhra Pradesh Municipalities Act 1965, Andhra

Pradesh Building Rules 2017, AP Layout Rules 2017 as amended from time to time as

defined in the National Building Code as the case may be, unless the context otherwise

requires. All amendments / modifications made in the aforesaid regulations shall

automatically stand deemed to have been included as part of these rules.

In these regulations the use of present tense includes the future tense, the

masculine gender includes the feminine and the neutral. The singular number includes

the plural and the plural includes the singular. The word ‘Person’ includes other public

institutions, other agencies and individual. Writing includes printing and typing and

signature includes ‘Thumb impression’ made by a person who cannot write if his name is

written near to such thumb impression.

Definitions

“Accessory Use” means any use of the premises subordinate to the principal use and customarily

incidental to the principal use.

“Act” means the Andhra Pradesh Town Planning Act, 1920, Andhra Pradesh Municipalities Act,

1965.

“Amenities” includes club house, convention halls, educational, commercial facilities, crèche,

gymnasium, convenient shopping etc.,

“Appeal” Appeal against interpretation and decision of ULBs lies with the DTCP. Appeal against

interpretation and decision of DTCP lies with the Government.

“Buffer area” means

(a) an area of land separating adjacent land uses that is managed for the purpose of

mitigating impacts of one use on the other.

(b) an area within which sensitive uses are either restricted or prohibited.

Buffer element is a natural or artificial feature that mitigates an adverse impact; a

buffer may include open ground, a vegetation buffer and or acoustic barrier.

“Building” means a structure constructed with any materials whatsoever for any purpose, whether

used for human habitation or not and includes-

(a) Foundation, Plinth, Walls, Floors, Chimneys, Plumbing and Building services, Fixed

Platforms etc.

(b) Verandahs, Balconies, Cornices, Projections etc.

(d) Any wall enclosing or intended to enclose any land or space, sign and outdoor

display structures etc.

(e) Tanks constructed or fixed for storage of chemicals or chemicals in liquid form and

for storage of water, effluent, swimming pool, ponds etc.

(f)

All types of buildings defined below shall be considered to be ‘buildings’ except

tents, shamianas and tarpaulin shelters erected temporarily for temporary purposes

and ceremonial occasions.

“Assembly Building” means a building or part thereof where groups of people

congregate or gather for amusement, recreation, social, religious, patriotic, civil,

travel and similar purposes and includes buildings of drama and cinema

theatres, city halls, town halls, auditoria, exhibition halls, museums, marriage

hall, skating rings, gymnasia, stadia, restaurants, eating or boarding houses,

place of worship, dance halls, clubs, gymkhanas, road, air, sea or other public

transportation stations and recreation piers.

ii.

“Business Building” means any building or part thereof used for transaction of

record therefore, offices, banks, all professional establishments, court houses

classified as business buildings if their principal function is transaction of

business and/or keeping of books and records.

iii.

“Detached Building” means a building with walls and roofs independent of any

other building and with open spaces on all sides within the same plot.

iv.

“Semi-Detached Building” means a building having one or more side attached

with wall and roof with other building.

“Row House” means a row of houses on adjacent plot with a common wall with

only front, rear and/or interior open spaces. The house at the end of the row shall

however have side open space as prescribed.

vi.

“Educational Building” means a building exclusively used for a school or

college, recognized by the appropriate Board or University, or any other

Competent Authority involving assembly for instruction, education or recreation

incidental to educational use, and including a building for such other user’s

incidental thereto such as a library or a research institution. It shall also include

quarters for essential staff required to reside in the premises, and a building used

as a hostel captive to an educational institution whether situated in its campus or

not.

vii.

“Hazardous Building” means a building or part thereof used for-

(1) Storage, handling, manufacture or processing or radioactive substances or

of highly combustible or explosive materials or products which are liable

to burn with extreme rapidity and/or producing poisonous fumes.

(2) Storage, handling, manufacture or processing of which involves highly

corrosive, toxic obnoxious alkalis, acids, or another liquids, gases or

chemicals producing flame, fumes, and explosive mixtures or which result

in division of matter into fine particles capable of spontaneous ignition.

viii.

“Industrial Building” means a building or part thereof wherein products or,

material are fabricated, assembled or processed, such as assembly plants,

laboratories, power plants, refineries, gas plants, mills, dairies and factories etc.

ix.

“Institutional Building” means a building constructed by Government, Semi-

Government organizations, public sector undertakings, registered Charitable

Trusts for their public activities, such as education, medical, recreational and

cultural, hostel for working women or men or for an auditorium or complex for

cultural and allied activities or for an hospice, care of orphans, abandoned

women, children and infants, convalescents, destitute or aged persons and for

penal or correctional detention with restricted liberty of the inmates ordinarily

providing sleeping accommodation, and includes dharamshalas, hospitals,

sanatoria, custodian and penal institutions such as jails, prisons, mental hospitals,

houses of correction, detention and reformatories building constructed for the

promotion of Tourism such as, stared hotels, clubs, golf course, sport stadium and

all activities of Tourist Unit as may be declared by Government from time to

time.

"Mercantile Building" means a building or part thereof used as shops, stores or

markets, for display and sale of wholesale or retail goods or merchandise,

including office, storage and service facilities incidental thereto located in the

same building.

xi.

"High-rise Building" means a building with 18 meters and above (including stilt

floor) in height. However Chimneys, cooling towers, Boiler rooms/Lift machine

rooms, Cold storage and non-working areas in case of industrial buildings and

water tanks and architectural features in respect of other buildings may be

permitted as a non- high-rise building.

xii.

"Office Building" (premises), means a building or premises or part thereof

whose sole or principal use is for an office or for office purposes or clerical work.

Office purposes include the purpose of administration, clerical work, handling

money, telephone, telegraph and computer operation; and clerical work includes

writing, book-keeping, sorting papers typing, filing, duplicating, punching cards

or tapes, machines calculations, drawing of matter for publication and editorial

preparation of matter of publication.

xiii.

"Public Building" means a building constructed by Government, Semi

government organizations, public sector undertakings, registered Charitable Trust

or such other organizations for their non- profitable public activities.

xiv.

"Residential Building" means a building in which sleeping accommodation is

provided for normal residential purposes, with or without cooking or dining

facilities, and includes one or more family dwellings, lodging or boarding houses,

hostels, dormitories, apartment houses, flats and private garages such buildings.

xv.

"Heritage Building" means a building possessing architectural, aesthetic,

historic or cultural values which is declared as heritage building by the Authority.

xvi.

"Heritage Precinct" means an area comprising heritage building or buildings

and precincts thereof or related places.

xvii.

"Storage Building" means a building or part thereof used primarily for storage

or shelter of goods, merchandise and includes a building used as a warehouse,

cold storage freight depot, transit shed, store house, public garage, hanger, truck

terminal grain elevator, barn and stable.

xviii.

"Unsafe Building" means a building which,

(a) is structurally unsafe,

(b) is insanitary,

(d) constitutes a fire hazard,

(e) is dangerous to human life,

(f) in relation to its existing use constitutes a hazard to safety or health

or public welfare by reasons of inadequate maintenance, dilapidation

or abandonment.

xix.

"Wholesale establishment" means an establishment wholly or partly engaged in

wholesale trade and manufactures wholesale outlets, including related storage

facilities, warehouses and establishments engaged in truck transport, including

truck transport booking warehouses.

“Convenient shopping” means premises used for a group of shops comprising those dealing

with day to day requirements, as distinguished from wholesale trade or shopping. It

includes-

(a) Bicycle hire and repair shops,

(b) Books and stationery shops or stores,

(d) Florists,

(e) Food-grains or ration shops, each with carpet area not exceeding 50 Sq. m,

(f)

Groceries, confectioneries, and general provision shops, each with a carpet

area not exceeding 50 sq. m,

(g) Hair dressing saloons and beauty parlors,

(h) Medical and dental practitioner’s dispensaries or clinics, pathological or

diagnostic clinics and pharmacies, each with a carpet area not exceeding 50 sq.

(i)

Milk and milk products shops,

(j)

Newspaper, magazine stalls and circulating libraries,

(k) Plumbers, electricians, radio, television and video equipment repair shops and

audio/video libraries,

(l)

Restaurants and eating houses each with a carpet area not exceeding 50 sq. m,

(m) Shoes and sports shops each with a carpet area not exceeding 75 sq. m,

(n) Shop for collecting and distribution of clothes and other materials for cleaning

and dyeing establishments,

(o) Shops dealing in ladies ornaments such as bangles, fancy and gift items etc.,

(p) Shops selling bakery products,

(q) Tailor or darner shops,

(r)

Vegetable and fruits shops.

"Developer" means,

(a) a person who constructs or causes to be constructed an independent building or

a building consisting of apartments, or converts an existing building or a part

thereof into apartments, for the purpose of selling all or some of the apartments

to other persons and includes his assignees; or

(b) a person who develops land into a project, whether or not the person also

constructs structures on any of the plots, for the purpose of selling to other

persons all or some of the plots in the said project, whether with or without

structures thereon; or

(1) buildings or apartments, as the case may be, constructed by such authority

or body on lands owned by them or placed at their disposal by the

Government, or

(2) plots owned by such authority or body or placed at their disposal by the

Government, for the purpose of selling all or some of the apartments or

plots; or

(d) an apex State level co-operative housing finance society and a primary co-

operative housing society which constructs apartments or buildings for its

members or in respect of the allottees of such apartments or buildings; or

(e) any other person who acts himself as a builder, colonizer, contractor,

promoter, estate developer or by any other name or claims to be acting as the

holder of a power of attorney from the owner of the land on which the building

or apartment is constructed or plot is developed for sale; or

(f) such other person who constructs any building or apartment for sale to the

general public.

Explanation.—For the purposes of this clause, where the person who constructs or converts a

building into apartments or develops a plot for sale and the persons who sells apartments or

plots are different persons, both of them shall be deemed to be the promoters and shall be

jointly liable as such for the functions and responsibilities specified in these rules;

“Development” means development with its grammatical variations means the carrying out of

building, engineering, mining or other operations in or over, or under land or water or the

making of any material change, in any building or land, or in the use of any building or

land, and includes re-development and layout for sub-division of any land, and “to

develop” shall be construed accordingly.

“Drain” means a system or a line of pipes, with their fittings and accessories such as manholes,

inspection chambers, traps gullies, floor traps used for drainage of building or yards

appurtenant to the buildings within the same cartilage. A drain includes an open channel

for conveying surface water or a system for the removal of any liquid.

“Dwelling” means a building or a portion there of which is designed or used wholly or principally

for residential purposes. This shall not include boarding or rooming houses, tents, tourist

camps, hotels for other structures designed or used primarily for transient residents.

“Dwelling Unit” means a shelter consisting of residential accommodation for one family. It is an

independent housing unit with separate facilities for living, cooking and sanitary

requirements.

“Enforcement Authority” means the, Municipal Commissioners of the ULBs and Panchayat

Secretaries of the respective Gram Panchayats;

“Existing Building” means use of a building or a structure existing authorized before the

commencement of these Regulations.

“Existing Use” means use of a building or a structure existing authorized before the

commencement of these Regulations.

“Floor” means the lower surface in a storey on which one normally walks in a building, and does

not include a Mezzanine Floor. The floor at ground level with a direct access to a street or

open space shall be called the Ground Floor; the floor above it shall be termed as Floor 1,

with the next higher floor being termed as Floor 2, and so on upwards. Similarly the floors

below ground levels shall be termed as Basement Floor 1, Basement Floor 2 with number

decreasing downwards.

“Land” includes benefits to arise out of land, things attached to the earth or permanently fastened

to anything attached to the earth.

“Land Use” means the principal use of land for which a plot of land or building thereon is used or

intended to be used. For the purpose of classification of a plot according to the land uses, a

land use shall deem to include subsidiary land uses which are contingent upon it.

“Licensed/Town Planner/Architect/Engineer/Structural Engineer/ Supervisor” means a

qualified Town Planner, Architect, Engineer, Structural Engineer, Supervisor who has

been licensed by the Competent Authority under relevant rules and also called as Licensed

Technical Personnel.

“Neighborhood Centre and Civic Centre” means Neighborhood Centre and Civic Center shall

include following activities such as sectoral shopping center, market, office building,

cinema, small hospital, playground, swimming pool, Town hall, open air theatre, civic and

cultural facilities, library, higher secondary school, parking plots, public utility and service

building such as post office, fire station, police station, religious building and building of

public uses.

“Non-conforming Building or Use” means a building, structure or use of land existing at the time

of commencement of these regulations and which does not conform to the regulations

pertaining to the zone in which it is situated.

“Occupancy or Use” means the principal occupancy or use for which a building or a part of it is

used or intended to be used, including contingent subsidiary occupancies; mixed

occupancy building being those in which more than one occupancy are present in different

portions of the building.

“Open Space” means an area, forming an integral part of the site left open to the sky and includes

area left for community purposes.

“Owner” means the person who receives the rent for the use of the land or building or would be

entitled to do so if they were let.

NOTE: The term Owner is synonymous with the term ‘applicant’.

(a) An agency or trustee who receives such rent on behalf of the owner,

(b) A receiver, executor or administrator or manager appointed by any court of competent

jurisdiction to have the charge of or to exercise the right of the owner,

any building devoted to religious or charitable purposes,

(d) A mortgage of a lease holder so empowered.

“Parking Space” means an area enclosed or unenclosed, covered or open, sufficient in size to park

vehicles, together with a drive way connecting the parking space with a street or alley and

permitting ingress and egress of the vehicles.

“Permanent Open Air Space” means air space permanently open--

(a) If it is a street,

(b) If its freedom from encroachment is protected by any low or contract ensuring that the

ground below it is either a street or is permanently and irrevocably appropriated as an

open space.

occupied by an existing structure may, if it is ultimately to become a permanently open

air space, be treated as if it were already such a place.

“Plot” means a portion of land held in single or joint ownership enclosed by definite boundaries

other than the land used, allotted, earmarked or set apart for any street, lane, passage,

pathway, conservancy lane or for any other public purpose.

“Road/Street” means any highway, street, lane, pathway, alley, stairway, passageway,

carriageway, footway, square place or bridge, whether a thoroughfare or not, over which

the public have a right of passage or access or have passed and had access uninterruptedly

for a specified period, whether existing or proposed in any scheme, and includes all

bunds channels, ditches, storm-water drains, culverts, sidewalks, traffic islands, road-side

trees and, hedges retaining walls, fences, barriers and railings within the street lines.

“Road/Street-Level or Grade” means the officially established elevation or grade of the centre

line of the street upon which a plot fronts, and if there is no officially established grade,

the existing grade of the street at its mid- point.

“Road/Street Line” means the line defining the side limits of a road/street.

“Service-Road” means a lane from a wider street provided at the front of a plot for service

purposes.

“Utility” means roads, streets, open spaces, parks, recreational grounds, playgrounds, gardens,

water supply, electric supply, street lighting, drainage, sewerage, public works and other

utilities, communication network, services and convenience.

“Village Settlement or Grama Khantam or Agraharam or Abadi” means all lands that have

been included as Agraharam/Abadi by the Government/ Collector within the site of village

and includes existing village hamlets.

"Warehouse" or “Godown" means a building, the whole or a substantial part of which is used or

intended to be used for the storage of goods whether for storing or for sale or for any

similar purpose. It is neither a domestic nor a public building, nor merely a shop if so used

not a store attached to and used for the proper functioning of a shop.

"Water Course" means a natural channel or an artificial channel formed by draining or diversion

of a natural channel meant for carrying storm and waste water.

“Water Bodies” means the designated areas for flow of water such as Nallas, Canals, Vagus,

River etc. and designated areas for storage of water such as Tanks, Cheruvu, SS Tanks etc. The

measurement of all water bodies should be as per irrigation records/revenue records and in

case of any discrepancy the relevant revenue/irrigation records stands final.

"Width of a Street / Road” means the clear average width of the existing carriage way and

footpaths only on which the building or plot line abuts. The average width shall be

computed by taking length of street between two extreme points on building unit abutting

the street at right angles to the direction of such streets excluding the steps projections,

forecourts, open areas of other spaces in front of the building erected or intended to be

erected. However in case where a regular line of street is prescribed by the Competent

Authority, such width shall be considered for the purpose of computing building height.

And when applied to a new road/street the road width means the whole extent of space

within the boundaries of a road as laid down in the City Survey or development plan or

prescribed road lines by any Act or land and measured at right angles to the course or

intended course of direction of such road

“Zonal Development Plan” means a plan detailing out the proposals of Master Plan/Development

Plan prepared under the provisions of the Act.

3. ZONING REGULATIONS

In the Proposed Land Use Plan of the Master Plan, various land use zones are proposed under

two broad categories (A) Development Promotion Zone [DPZ] and (B)Protected Use Zone [PR]

having their zonal boundaries as indicated shall be regulated as per the regulations given below.

(A) Under the Development Promotion Zone [DPZ], the land use zones

proposed are:

(1) Residential Use Zone (R),

(2) Commercial Use Zone(C),

(3) Mixed Use Zone(M),

(4) Industrial Use Zone(I),

a. Work Centre zone (Green and White Industries)

b. Hazardous /Polluting industrial zone (Red and Orange

Industries)

(5) Public and Semi-Public Use (Institutional) Zone (PS),

(6) Public Utilities Use Zone (PU),

(7) Recreational Open Space Use Zone (RE)

(8) Transportation Use Zone(T),

(9) Agricultural Use Zone(A) and

(B) Under Protected Use Zone [PR], the land uses proposed are:

(1)

Protected (Blue)

(2)

Protected (Green)

Except as otherwise provided, no structure or land hereinafter shall be used and no structure

shall be erected, re-erected or altered unless its use is in conformity with these regulations.

The uses not mentioned below may be treated as prohibited against their uses.

The Zoning Regulations contain the following classification of broad land use zones. These

regulations specify uses that are permissible in the normal course in each land use zones.

(A) DEVELOPMENT PROMOTION ZONE [DPZ]

Residential Use Zone

In the Residential use Zone, buildings or premises shall be normally permitted only for the

following purposes and accessory uses.

S.No

Allowable Activities

Required

Road Width

3.1.1



All residential buildings



Apartments/Group Housing



Group Development Schemes



Shop cum residences



Residential Township

3.1.2



Hostels



Boarding House

3.1.3



Community

Halls/Auditorium

(Constructed

the

Government Agencies)



Night Shelter, Dharmashala, homes for senior citizens,

orphanages, physically challenged/ disabled/handicapped

people, Clubs, Cultural and Philanthropic associations of

non- commercial nature



Community center without commercial activity

3.1.4



Guest houses



Service Apartment



Bachelor quarters



Staff Quarters

3.1.5



Post-offices



Police stations



Fire stations



Individual Professional Offices



Electric sub-stations



Community toilets/Public toilets



Disaster Risk resilience center



Government/Semi Government/Local body offices

3.1.6



Professional establishments up to plot area of 500 sq.m

12 m

3.1.7



Playgrounds and Play fields



Games facilities Indoor and Outdoor



Exhibition and art gallery



Libraries



Gardens



Parks



Tot-lots



Plant nurseries



SPA, Beauty parlor



Aerobic Center



Gymnasium



Swimming pool



Yoga centers / health clinics

18 m

3.1.8



All White category industries are permissible (as per the list

enclosed in Annexure A)

3.1.9



Tiffin centers/Restaurants/Food Courts/Curry point



Bakeries/canteen/Juice centers

12 m

3.1.10



Professional establishments in individual buildings within

plot area up to 500 sq.m

3.1.11



Nursery School



Primary School

12 m



High school



Research institutes (non-hazardous nature)



Technical training centers



Tutorial Institutions

18 m

3.1.12



Banks/ATM



Internet café centres

12 m



Departmental stores



IT enabled services on independent plots



Electronic printing press



Computer software units

18 m

3.1.13



Three-wheeler stands



Bus stops



Vehicle parking including multilevel car parking

3.1.14



Cell/Mobile Towers

3.1.15



Weekly markets

3.1.16



Religious premises (Temples, Mosques, Churches and other

religious buildings etc)

3.1.17



Kalyanamandapam/Function Hall

18 m

3.1.18



Clinic/Dispensary/Medical shops/First Aid centers

3.1.19



Nursing Homes/Hospitals in the plots with not more than

500 sq.m



Diagnosis centers in the plots with not more than 500 sq.m.

12 m

3.1.20



Diagnosis centers in the plots with 500 sq.m. to 1000 sq.m



Nursing Homes/Hospitals in the plots with 500 sq.m to

1000 sq.m

18 m

3.1.21



Petrol filling stations without service stations

18 m

3.1.22



Retail Gas outlets/LPG (without Godown)

9 m

3.1.23



Battery Recharge stations

9 m

*Govt. is empowered to declare any potential Road for allowing Commercial Activity subject

to payment of Impact fee as Prescribed.

Commercial Use

S.No.

Allowable Activities

Required Road

Width

3.2.1



All uses permissible in residential uses are

permissible

3.2.2



Restaurants & Bar/Canteen/Eating houses



Hotels



Banquet halls



Lodges

3.2.3



Educational institutions like Primary Schools



All other educational institutions

18 m

3.2.4



Offices



Banks



Financial institutions



Stock exchanges



Hostels

12 m

3.2.5



Family entertainment centres

18 m

3.2.6



Hospitals



Bio-informatics centres

3.2.7



Public utility buildings



Government offices research and social

services institutions



Govt./Semi-Govt/Local Body Offices

3.2.8



Petrol/Gas/Diesel/Bio-Diesel filing stations with

service stations



Weigh bridges

3.2.9



IT Parks



Manufacture of computer hardware

3.2.10



Newspaper offices with printing press



All white and green category industries are

permissible (as per the list enclosed in Annexure A)

3.2.11



Taxi and scooter stands



Transport terminals viz. Bus bays/local bus

stands/Bus terminals and Depots / Railway/ Metro /

BRTS Stations/Yards



Truck Parking

3.2.12



Cinema Theatres/Miniplex/Multiplex Such uses

for public gathering

3.2.13



Large scale commercial establishments



Automobile Showrooms and service stations



Wholesale shops



Professional business establishments

3.2.14



Malls, Hospitality including Hotels



Motels



Holiday Resorts

3.2.15



Film and allied Production Activities - Film and

Video Shooting Sites, Film Studios on Land not

less than 2.5 ha with studio and other related

facilities

3.2.16



Convention Centers

3.2.17



Kalyanamandapam/Function Hall

3.2.18



Warehouses and other uses connected with storage

of wholesale trade in commodities



Whole sale markets and Mandis



Fruit and Vegetable markets



Meat and fish markets



Cattle fair ground

where minimum road

width

18m

respect

municipalities

3.2.19



Timber storage



Cold storages and ripening chambers



Weigh bridges



Gas Godowns

3.2.20



Broadcasting, telecasting and telecommunication

stations

3.2.21



Private helipads subject to clearance by Civil

Aviation department

*In this zone impact fee shall be levied for all buildings other than residential as prescribed

by the government from time to time.

Mixed Use:

All activities permissible in Residential use zone are permissible in mixed use including the

following:

Allowable activities

Required Road

width

3.3.1



Banks and Safe Deposit Vaults



Business Office



Other Commercial or Financial Institutions

(occupying a floor area not exceeding 500 sq.m.)

12 m

3.3.2



Public Utility Buildings



Government office

12 m

3.3.3



Hotels



Motels



Restaurants

(occupying a floor area not exceeding 500 sq.m.)

12 m

3.3.4



Malls



Holiday Resorts



Miniplex, Multiplex, Cinema halls



Convention centres/Kalyana mandapam /Function hall

18 m

3.3.5



Hostels



Dormitories



Boarding and Lodging houses



Other Welfare Institutions

(occupying a floor area not exceeding 500 sq.m.)

12 m

3.3.6



All educational Institutions



IT Parks



Manufacture of computer hardware

18 m

3.3.7



Clinics



Hospitals



Dispensaries



Nursing Homes



Other Health facilities

(Occupying a floor area not exceeding 1000 sq.m.)

12 m

3.3.8



Establishments and shops retailing in

Vegetables

Fruits

Flowers

Fish

Meat

Other daily necessities of the residents

Departmental stores

(Occupying a floor area not exceeding 500 sq.m.)

12 m

3.3.9



Organized markets



Bakeries



Confectionaries



Laundries



Tailoring



Goldsmith shops



Hairdressing saloons

(Occupying a floor area not exceeding 500 sq.m.)

12 m

3.3.10



Fuel filling stations without service facilities



Automobile service stations

12 m

3.3.11



Taxi stands



Car parking including multilevel parking



Automobile workshop with (floor area not exceeding 300 sq.m)

12 m

3.3.12



Broadcasting, telecasting and telecommunication stations



Newspaper offices with printing press

12 m

3.3.13



All white and green category industries are permissible (as per

the list enclosed in Annexure A)

12m

*All buildings except residential abutting to 18 mts. and above road width, impact fee shall

be levied as fixed by the Government from time to time

Industrial Use:

3.4.(a) Work Center Zones

Allowable Activities

Required Road Width

3.4a.1



All types of industries mentioned in Annexure-A

under Green and White categories Industries

3.4a.2



Wholesale business establishments



Ware-housing & storage



Newspaper offices with printing press

3.4a.3



Petrol filling stations with garages and service

stations

3.4a.4



Contractors’ plants

3.4a.5



Parks and play grounds



Sports and recreation uses

3.4a.6



Public utility buildings

3.4a.7



Restaurants

3.4a.8



Transport terminals for goods and passengers



Junk yards



Taxi stands



Stock yards

3.4a.9



Residential buildings for staff



Shops, Watch and Ward staff quarters incidental

to main use

3.4a.10



Loading and unloading spaces

3.4a.11



Commercial entertainment of a transient nature

like circus

3.4a.12



Hospitals



Nursing homes



Dispensary

Up to 1000 Sq.m. site

area and 18 m road

3.4a.13



Technical and research institutions

3.4a.14



Quarrying of Clay and Stone



Quarrying of Gravel

3.4a.15



Sewage farms



Public utilities like garbage and sewage disposal

municipal and Government offices

3.4a.16



Goods and Logistic Hubs

3.4a.17



All uses that are permissible under Traffic &

Transportation use

3.4a.18



Microwave towers



Power plants

3.4a.19



Parking lot (including multi-level)



Bus and truck terminals

3.4a.20



Dairy and poultry farms

3.4a.21



Slaughter house and meat processing unit

3.4a.22



Automobile Service station

3.4a.23



Ice and freezing plants with power

3.4a.24



Gas Godowns

3.4.(b) Hazardous /Polluting industrial zone

Allowable Activities

Required Road Width

3.4b.1



All types of industries mentioned in Annexure-A

under Red and Orange categories Industries

3.4b.2



All other usage permissible from 3.4a.2 to

3.4a.24 are permissible

Public and Semi-Public Use (Institutional) Zone:

Allowable Activities

Required Road

Width

3.5.1



Local



State



Central government offices and uses



Semi Government



Public undertaking offices and uses



Uses incidental to government offices and their use



Radio transmission and wireless stations



Municipal and community facilities



Public utilities

3.5.2



Defense uses



Research and development centers

3.5.3



Libraries



All educational and medical institutions

3.5.4



All types of Hospitals



Health/primary center

3.5.5



Social, welfare and cultural institutions

3.5.6



Religious buildings/centers



Religious and Welfare Institutions along with residential

quarters

3.5.7



Art galleries



Monuments

3.5.8



Conference halls



Function halls



Kalyana Mandapams



Auditoriums

3.5.9



Off street parking

3.5.10



Burial ground



Cemeteries and crematoria

3.5.11



Sports stadium



Swimming pools



Gardens, Parks, play grounds and other recreational uses

requiring extensive open space



Exhibitions and fair grounds



Special recreational areas



Picnic spots



Geological and botanical gardens



Museums



Aquarium



Water fronts and areas of scenic interest and national

parks



Open air theatres



Temporary uses for exhibition



Circus fair festivals



Welfare center



Auditorium



recreational club



Golf Courses



Race courses/Gokarting/Racing track



Shooting ranges



Amusement Parks and Theme Parks



Stables



Planetarium



Horticultural nursery

3.5.12



Computer software units



IT enabled services on independent plots having at least

1000 sq.m size.

3.5.13



Residential and other uses incidental to the main use and

in no way causing any nuisance or hazard

3.5.14



Bank

3.5.15



Guest house



Hostels

3.5.16



Water supply installations



Sewage disposal works



Service stations



Jail



Police station



Post office

3.5.17



Rail and Road terminus



Helipads



Airports/Port



Airport related ancillary uses



Railway station/yard

3.5.18



Educational Institutions like.,



School, Degree Colleges and Professional Colleges/

Universities



Polytechnic college



Library



Research and development center

3.5.19



Petrol pump

3.5.20



Residential plotted or group housing for staff/employees

as incidental to the main use



Retail shopping centre

3.5.21



Spastic rehabilitation centers



Orphanages



Choultaries



Old age homes

3.5.22



Dobhi Ghat

*The lands earmarked for buffers under HT Lines can be used for service roads and access to

neighbouring fields.

Public Utilities Use Zone:

Allowable Activities

Required Road Width

3.6.1



Road transport terminals(Bus terminals& depots)



Goods Terminals



Parking areas



Truck terminal



Railways

–

Passenger

and

Freight

Terminals

3.6.2



Airports buildings and infrastructure



Helipads

3.6.3



Motor garage



Workshop and incidental amenities

3.6.4



Booking offices

3.6.5



Transmission center



Wireless station



Radio and television station



Telephone exchange

3.6.6



Observatory and weather office

3.6.7



Petrol filling stations with garages & service

stations



Weigh bridges

3.6.8



Warehousing

3.6.9



Public utility buildings.

3.6.10



Any other use/activity incidental to transport and

communication use, residential units for staff.

3.6.11



Accessory and support shopping activity

3.6.12



Banks

3.6.13



Hotels



Restaurants



Way side amenities.

3.6.14



Night shelter

*Competent Authority can permit any use in Government Land irrespective of its usage as per

Government Orders without pre-Judious to Court Orders.

Recreational Open Space Use Zone:

Allowable Activities

Required Road Width

3.7.1



Regional parks



All other parks



Playgrounds



Children traffic parks



Specialized parks/ Maidans for multi use

3.7.2



Botanical/ Zoological garden



Bird Sanctuary

3.7.3



All recreational activities/resorts/tourism activities/

uses which will create tourism promotion are

permissible in this zone subject to obtaining

relevant No objection certificates/ clearances from

the

concerned/

respective

departments

irrigation department, River conservation etc to

encourage tourism promotion.

Building and structures ancillary to uses permitted

in open spaces and parks such as stand for vehicles

on hire, subject to the total ground coverage not

exceeding 2%, Camping grounds.



Open air cinemas



Commercials use of transit nature like cinema



Circus and other shows

3.7.4



Holiday resorts having minimum plot area of 10

acres with ground coverage not exceeding 5%.

3.7.5



Film Studios/city having minimum plot area of 10

acres, with ground coverage not exceeding 10%

Transportation Use Zone:

In the Traffic and Transport use zone, building or premises shall normally be

permitted only for the following purposes and accessory uses:

Allowable Activities

Required Road width

3.8.1



Aerial Ropeway

3.8.2



Airport

3.8.3



Auto Garages & Repair Shops and facilities

such as night shelters

3.8.4



Automobile Showrooms



Logistic Park / Ware houses / CFS- Container

Freight Station

3.8.5



Bus Bays & Local Bus Stand



Bus Terminus & Depot

3.8.6



Cold Storage

3.8.7



Container Terminal

3.8.8



Convention Centers



Exhibition Grounds

3.8.9



Electrical Substation



Fire Station / Disaster risk resilience Centre



Fuel Filling Station / Petrol / Gas / Diesel / Bio

Diesel

3.8.10



Garden, Parks

3.8.11



Helipad, Heliport

3.8.12



Hotels



Lodging / Guest Houses



Restaurant / Canteen / Eating houses

3.8.13



Jetty along navigable water bodies, rivers,

canals, sea

3.8.14



Truck Parking



Multi-level Parking, Open Parking/Taxi

/ Auto Rickshaw Stand

3.8.15



All Govt. Offices



Police Outpost & Police / Traffic Police

Station



RTO

3.8.16



Piped Gas Control Station,

3.8.17



Railway / Metro / BRTS Station,

3.8.18



Retail trade and services including bank

branch

3.8.19



Second Hand Junk goods and Junk yards

3.8.20



Sewerage Treatment Plant, Solid Waste

Disposal and Treatment Sites / Landfills

3.8.21



Staff Quarters Incidental to main use

3.8.22



Trade Center

3.8.23



Market / Weekly Bazaar



All Commercial uses as incidental to main use

shall

permitted

including

shopping

3.8.24

complex, malls, miniplex/multiplex etc. and

prior approval of DTCP may be obtained

provided that separate parking space shall be

provided as per AP Buildings Rules along with

other conditions as per AP Building Rules

and its Amendments.

*All activities permissible in commercial zone are permissible in transportation use zone.

Agricultural Use Zone:

Allowable Activities

Required Road

Width

3.9.1



All agricultural uses and Horticulture uses



Diary and Cattle/Cow Shed, Gaushallas, Emu Farms,

Stud Farms



Cattle fairgrounds



Piggeries, poultry farms, animal and bird farms



Fish farms



Forestry



Pisciculture, Floriculture



Aqua farms



Hatcheries

3.9.2



Electric Sub-stations



Receiving stations



Water tanks and reservoirs



Burial/burning grounds or crematoria and brick kilns



All types of brick/block industries



Pre-cast cement industries



Ready mix concrete plants

3.9.3

a. The farm house buildings/ layouts are permissible which

incidental uses to agriculture, horticulture garden.

Approval/permission to be obtained from competent

authority duly following the specifications given below

and the procedure as per the norms.

b. Farm-house layouts for Agricultural activities:



Minimum width of internal gravel road shall be 9.00

m and minimum plot area of 2000 sqm and no sub-

division of plot is allowed.



In the layout plots building permission shall be

accorded by the competent authority with plinth area

not exceeding 5%coverage, with 200 Sqm.in

aggregate whichever is less consisting of G+1 floor

only, rest of the plot shall be in use with cultivation /

plantation.



Site must have access through existing public road,

Puntha, Gorge etc.,



Farmhouse buildings are allowed in approved

farmhouse layouts by competent authority. Duly

obtains

building

permission

from

competent

authority

c. Farm-house in Agricultural Land use:



Minimum farmhouse site shall not be less than 0.2

Ha or 0.5 Acres.



Floor area shall not exceed 200sqm. in aggregate or

5% of ground coverage whichever is less.



Shall not exceed more than G+1 Upper Floor.

Maximum height – 8 m.



Site must have access through existing public road,

Puntha, Gorge

d. Not applicable for the lands intentionally / unauthorized

sub-divided duly forming new roads.

 Residential layouts are permissible up to 5 Ha. subject

to construction of individual residential building at

least in 25% of total no. of plots and a minimum built

up area of 750sq.ft of each dwelling unit.

As per layout rules in

force

3.9.4



All white and green category industries are

permissible (as per the list enclosed in Annexure A)

9 m

3.9.5



Petrol Pump and other fuel filling stations

12 m

3.9.6



Storing and drying of fertilizers incidental to the

agricultural operations

3.9.7



Camping sites and other recreational uses



Parks and play grounds

3.9.8



Sewage farms and garbage dumps



Water treatment plants



Sewerage Treatment Plant

3.9.9



Function halls



Hospitals and Hostels



All Educational Buildings



Vetinary Hospital

18 m

3.9.10



Amusement parks such as Disney land type



Eco-tourism activities



Toy trains



Gardens/ Botanical and Geological gardens



Orchards



Nurseries



Golf centers



Race course



Race/Driving testing tracks



Cultural buildings

18 m

3.9.11



Livestock rearing milk chilling centers

12 m

3.9.12



Cold storage/Ripening chambers



Ware house



Storage and sale of farm products locally produced

12 m

3.9.13



Brick kilns



Concrete block

3.9.14



Weigh bridges

12 m

3.9.15



Places of worship

3.9.16



Helipads

18 m

3.9.17



Mini power projects

18 m

3.9.18



Old

age

and

orphanage

homes,

public

utilities such as solid waste landfills

12 m

3.9.19



Check posts and toll gates having access to major

roads

12 m

3.9.20



Truck terminals

18 m

3.9.21



Quarrying and removal of clay and stone up to 3.0m

depth and crushing

3.9.22



Electrical/Battery recharge Stations

9 m

(B) PROTECTED USE ZONE [PR]

Protected Use Zone [PR]

Allowable Activities

Required Road Width

3.10.1

Protected (Blue)



Water bodies generally indicates all existing water

courses, rivers, canals, lakes, tanks and Kuntas as

indicated in the topographical sheets published by

the Survey of India/ Revenue records/ Irrigation

department/ or other competent authorities



The boundary of the water bodies relate to the Full

tank Level as indicated in relevant maps, covering

both perennial and non-perennial parts when such

distinction exists. In water Body no construction is

permitted in the water-spread.



The only exception is fishing, boating, and picnics

along the banks. The only construction allowed is

open to sky jetties for boating, house boats,

platforms for fishing and rain shelters’ and snack

bars each not exceeding 100 sq.m in area and tourist

amenities.



The measurement of all water bodies should be as

per irrigation records/ revenue records and in case of

any discrepancy the relevant revenue/ irrigation

records stands final.

3.10.2

Protected Zone (Green)



No development permission shall be allowed except

Agriculture, Horticulture, Mangroves and forestry

use



Parks



Botanical gardens



Picnic spots



Public utilities



Electrical sub stations



Microwave radar/cell phones tower/T.V. tower and

station are permitted in the zone.



Quarrying is allowed in the Hillock area subject to

prior NOC from the relevant departments viz.

namely Revenue, Mining, Forest etc.

*Proposed buffer to water bodies, HT lines, Railway property etc. also comes in protected zone

(Green)

Note:

1. Where ever minimum Road width is not specified in above all usages, the Road widths

specified in A.P. Building Rules-2017 and its Amendments shall be applicable.

2. Government is empowered to levy special impact fee on any Proposed/ newly formed

NH/SH/Bypass/Ring roads/any other major roads within the vicinity on either side of

above said roads as fixed by the government from time to time.

3. The land use abutting to the public access will deemed to be attributed to the entire

property either for single/ amalgamated sites.

4. Where an recreational open space proposed in the Statutory Master Plan, the

Sanctioning Authority shall retain the location in the said layout and if not feasible,

he/she is authorized to suitably modify the location with the prior approval of

Competent Authority within the layout site but reduction of extent/deletion of

recreational open space is not allowed.

Annexure-A

Categories of Industries/Projects/Activities

The Central Pollution Control Board vide order issued to APPCB on 7th March, 2016 under

section 18 (1) (b) of the Water Act, 1974 and Section 18 (1) (b) of the Air Act, 1981 directed

to adopt revised criteria of categorisation of industrial sectors communicated with the orders.

Revised list of Red, Orange, Green and White category of industrial sectors shall be used by

PCB for Consent Management and Inventorization of Industries under R/O/G/W categories.

Red Category

Sl.No.

Industry sector

Isolated storage of hazardous chemicals (as per schedule of manufacturing, storage of

hazardous chemicals rules, 1989 as amended

Automobile Manufacturing (integrated facilities)

Such types of plants are having either one or combinations of polluting

activities viz. washing, metal surface finishing operations, pickling, plating,

electro-plating , phosphating, painting, heat treatment etc.

ii.

Some of such plants may outsource some/all of the polluting activities. In

such cases, after thorough inspection of such units by concerned SPCB, re-

categorization of the industry shall be made accordingly.

Industries engaged in recycling / reprocessing/ recovery/reuse of Hazardous Waste

under schedule iv of HW( M, H& TBM) rules, 2008 – Items namely – Spent

cleared metal catalyst containing copper, Spent cleared metal catalyst containing

zinc.

Manufacturing of lubricating oils, grease petroleum-based products

DG Set of capacity > 5 MVA

Industrial carbon including electrodes and graphite blocks, activated carbon, carbon

black

Lead acid battery manufacturing (excluding assembling and charging of lead-acid

battery in micro scale)

Phosphate rock processing plant

Power generation plant [except Wind and Solar renewable power plants of all

capacities and Mini Hydel power plant of capacity <25MW]

Industries engaged in recycling / reprocessing/ recovery/reuse of Hazardous Waste

under schedule iv of HW (M, H& TBM) rules, 2008 – Items namely – Spent

catalyst containing nickel, cadmium, Zinc, copper, arsenic, vanadium and cobalt,

Processes involving chlorinated hydrocarbons

Sugar (excluding Khandsari)

Fiber glass production and processing (excluding molding)

Fire crackers manufacturing and bulk storage facilities

Industries engaged in recycling / reprocessing/ recovery/reuse of Hazardous Waste

under schedule iv of HW( M, H& TBM) rules, 2008 – Items namely – Dismantlers

Recycling Plants — Components of waste electrical and electronic assembles

comprising accumulators and other batteries included on list A, mercury-switches,

activated glass culets from cathode-ray tubes and other activated glass and PCB-

capacitors, or any other component contaminated with Schedule 2 constituents (e.g.

cadmium, mercury, lead, polychlorinated biphenyl) to an extent that they exhibit

hazard characteristics indicated in part C of this Schedule.

Milk processes and dairy products (integrated project)

Phosphorous and its compounds

Pulp & Paper (waste paper based without bleaching process to manufacture Kraft

paper)

Coke making, liquefaction, coal tar distillation or fuel gas making

Manufacturing of explosives, detonators, fuses including management and handling

activities

Manufacturing of paints varnishes, pigments and intermediate (excluding

blending/mixing)

Organic Chemicals manufacturing

Airports and Commercial Air Strips

Asbestos and asbestos based industries

Cement

Chlorates, per-chlorates & peroxides

Chlorine, fluorine, bromine, iodine and their compounds

Dyes and Dye- Intermediates

Health-care Establishment (as defined in BMW Rules)

Mainly water polluting.

ii.

The water pollution score is normalized to 100 & valid for Hospitals having

total waste-water generation > 100 KLD.

iii.

The hospitals with incinerator will be categorized as Red irrespective of the

quantity of the waste -water generation.

iv.

The hospitals having Total waste-water generation less than 100 KLD and

without incinerator, the normalized water pollution score will be 50 and

will be categorized as orange category

Hotels having overall waste- water generation @ 100 KLD and more.

Mainly water polluting. Small boiler may be installed.

ii.

The water pollution score is normalized to 100 & valid for hotels having

waste- water generation > 100 KLD.

iii.

The hotels having more than 20 rooms and waste-water generation less than

100 KLD and having a coal / oil fired boiler, the pollution score will be

35/40 & are categorized as Orange.

iv.

The hotels having more than 20 rooms and waste-water generation less than

10 KLD and having no-boiler & no hazardous waste generation, the pollution

score will be 20 & are categorized as Green.

Industries engaged in recycling / reprocessing/ recovery/reuse of Hazardous Waste

under schedule iv of HW (M, H& TBM) rules, 2008 – Items namely – Lead acid

battery plates and other lead scrap/ashes/residues not covered under Batteries

(Management and Handling) Rules, 2001. [ * Battery scrap, namely: Lead battery

plates covered by ISRI, Code word “Rails” Battery lugs covered by ISRI, Code

word “Rakes”. Scrap drained/dry while intact, lead batteries covered by ISRI, Code

word “rains”.

Industries engaged in recycling / reprocessing/ recovery/reuse of Hazardous Waste

under schedule iv of HW( M, H& TBM) rules, 2008 – Items namely – Integrated

Recycling Plants — Components of waste electrical and electronic assembles

comprising accumulators and other batteries included on list A, mercury- switches,

activated glass culets from cathode-ray tubes and other activated glass and PCB-

capacitors, or any other component contaminated with Schedule 2 constituents (e.g.

cadmium, mercury, lead, polychlorinated biphenyl) to an extent that they exhibit

hazard characteristics indicated in part C of this Schedule.

Manufacturing of glue and gelatin

Mining and ore beneficiation

Nuclear power plant

Pesticides (technical) (excluding formulation)

Photographic film and its chemicals

Railway locomotive work shop/Integrated Road transport workshop/Authorized

service centers

Yarn / Textile processing involving any effluent/emission generating processes

including bleaching, dyeing, printing and coloring

Chlor Alkali

Ship Breaking Industries

Oil and gas extraction including CBM (offshore & on-shore extraction through

drilling wells)

Industry or process involving metal surface treatment or process such as pickling/

electroplating/paint stripping/ heat treatment using cyanide bath/ phosphating or

finishing and anodizing / enamellings/ galvanizing

Tanneries

Ports and harbor, jetties and dredging operations

Synthetic fibers including rayon, tyre cord, polyester filament yarn

Thermal Power Plants

Slaughter house (as per notification S.O.270(E)dated 26.03.2001) and meat

processing industries, bone mill, processing of animal horn, hoofs and other body

parts

Aluminum Smelter

Copper Smelter

Fertilizer (basic) (excluding formulation)

Iron & Steel (involving processing from ore/ integrated steel plants) and or Sponge

Iron units

Pulp & Paper ( waste paper based units with bleaching process to manufacture

writing & printing paper)

Zinc Smelter

Oil Refinery (mineral Oil or Petro Refineries)

Petrochemicals Manufacturing (including processing of Emulsions of oil and water)

Pharmaceuticals

Pulp & Paper ( Large-Agro + wood), Small Pulp & Paper (agro based- heat

straw/rice husk)

Distillery ( molasses / grain / yeast based)

II.

Orange Category

S.NO INDUSTRY SECTOR

Dismantling of rolling stocks ( wagons/ coaches)

Bakery and confectionery units with production capacity > 1 TPD. ( With ovens /

furnaces)

Chanachur and ladoo from puffed and beaten rice( muri and shira) using husk fired oven

Coated electrode manufacturing

Compact disc computer floppy and cassette manufacturing / Reel manufacturing

Flakes from rejected PET bottle

Food and food processing including fruits and vegetable processing

Jute processing without dyeing

Manufacturing of silica gel

Manufacturing of tooth powder, toothpaste, talcum powder and other cosmetic items

Printing or etching of glass sheet using hydrofluoric acid

Silk screen printing, sari printing by wooden blocks

Synthetic detergents and soaps(excluding formulation)

This is the score for units having generation of waste-waters less than 100 KLD.

The units having waste- water generation more than 100 KLD will become mainly

water polluting and accordingly normalized water pollution score will be 75 and be

categorized as Red.

Thermometer manufacturing

Cotton spinning and weaving (medium and large scale)

Almirah, Grill Manufacturing (Dry Mechanical Process) Air pollution due to spray

painting (emissions of VOCs). Units without painting operations shall be categorized

as White.

Aluminium & copper extraction from scrap using oil fired furnace (dry process only)

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

water & air polluting and recyclable waste oil generating. If the waste water generation

is more than 100 KLD, it will become mainly water polluting and Red category unit.

Ayurvedic and homeopathic medicine

Brickfields ( excluding fly ash brick manufacturing using lime process)

Building and construction project more than 20,000 sq. m built up area

In the pre-construction stage, it is mainly air polluting due to generation of dust (PM)

emissions.

After construction, it is mainly water polluting. If the discharge is more than 100 KLD,

it will be having the normalized score of 75 and be categorized as Red.

Building and construction project more than 20,000 sq. m built up area Mainly air

polluting industry.

This score is for the units having coal consumption < than 12 MT/day.

For the units having coal consumption > 12 MT /day, the normalized air pollution score

will be 62.5 and shall be categorized as Red.

Coal washeries

Dairy and dairy products ( small scale)

DG set of capacity > 1MVA but < 5MVA

Dry coal processing, mineral processing, industries involving ore sintering,

pelletisating, grinding & pulverization

Fermentation industry including manufacture of yeast, beer, distillation of alcohol

(Extra Neutral Alcohol)

Mainly water polluting industry. This is the normalized water pollution score for units

having discharge < 100 KLD.

For the units having discharge > 100 KLD, the normalized water pollution score will be

75 and shall be accordingly categorized as Red.

Ferrous and Non- ferrous metal extraction involving different furnaces through

melting, refining, re-processing, casting and alloy- making Mainly air polluting.

This score is applicable to secondary production of ferrous & non-ferrous metals

(excluding lead) up –to 1 MT/hour production.

For lead, the normalized air pollution score will be = (100*25)/40=62.5 and is

categorized as Red.

For Induction Furnace clubbed with AOD furnace – separate calculation shall be made

based on the capacity of the furnaces. In such industries, the molten metal from

induction furnace is transferred to AOD furnace where other metals like manganese

and nickel are added to get the metal of desired constituents. The lime and silicon are

also added for reduction of the metal oxides to the base metal, the normalized air

pollution score will be = (100*25)/40=62.5 and is categorized as Red.

Fertilizer (granulation / formulation / blending only)

Fish feed, poultry feed and cattle feed

Fish processing and packing (excluding chilling of fishes)

Forging of ferrous and non- ferrous metals ( using oil and gas fired furnaces)

Formulation/pelletization of camphor tablets, naphthalene balls from camphor/

naphthalene powders.

Glass ceramics, earthen potteries and tile manufacturing using oil and as fired kilns,

coating on glasses using cerium fluorides and magnesium fluoride etc.

Gravure printing, digital printing on flex, vinyl

Heat treatment using oil fired furnace ( without cyaniding)

Hot mix plants

Hotels (< 3 star) or hotels having ≷ 20 rooms and less than 100 rooms.

Ice cream

Industries engaged in recycling / reprocessing/ recovery/reuse of Hazardous Waste

under schedule iv of HW( M, H& TBM) rules, 2008 – Items namely – Paint and ink

Sludge/residues

Industries engaged in recycling / reprocessing/recovery/reuse of Hazardous Waste under

schedule iv of HW( M, H& TBM) rules, 2008 – Items namely – Brass Dross, Copper

Dross,, Copper Oxide Mill Scale,, Copper Reverts, Cake & Residues,, Waste Copper

and copper alloys in Dispersible form,, Slags from copper processing for further

processing or refining, Insulated Copper Wire,, Scrap/copper with PVC sheathing

including ISRI-code material namely “Druid”, Jelly filled Copper cables, Zinc Dross-

Hot dip Galvanizers SLAB,, Zinc Dross-Bottom Dross,, Zinc ash/Skimming arising

from galvanizing and die casting operations,, Zinc ash/Skimming/other zinc bearing

wastes arising from smelting and refining,, Zinc ash and residues including zinc alloy

residues in dispersible from Industry or processes involving foundry operations

This score is valid for the foundries having capacity < 5 MT/hr as such units require

the coal/coke @ < 500 kg/hr.

The units having capacity of 5 MT/hr and more, the coal/coke consumption will be

more than 500 kg/hr and the normalized score will be 62.5 and classified accordingly

as Red.

Lime manufacturing (using lime kiln)

Liquid floor cleaner, black phenyl, liquid soap, glycerol mono-separate manufacturing

Both air and water pollution are generated

Manufacturing of glass

Mainly air polluting (melting at 1500ºC and refining.)

In case of lead glass , the score of A1 will be 25 and accordingly the normalized scores

will be 62.5 i.e. Red

Manufacturing of iodized salt from crude/ raw salt

Manufacturing of mirror from sheet glass

Manufacturing of mosquito repellent coil

Manufacturing of Starch/Sago

Mechanized laundry using oil fired boiler

Modular wooden furniture from particle board, MDF< swan timber etc, Ceiling tiles/

partition board from saw dust, wood chips etc., and other agricultural waste using

synthetic adhesive resin, wooden box making (With boiler)

1. Mainly air polluting. Boiler as well as VOCs from use of adhesives.

2. Without boiler, it will be a Green category industry.

New highway construction project

Non-alcoholic beverages(soft drink) & bottling of alcohol/non alcoholic products

Both air and water polluting. Score is normalized with air & water pollution. This score

is valid for industries having waste-water generation < 100 KLD.

For the units having waste-water generation > 100 KLD the , normalized score would

be 62.5 and categorized as Red.

Paint blending and mixing (Ball mill)

Paints and varnishes (mixing and blending)

Ply-board manufacturing( including Veneer and laminate) with oil fired boiler/ thermic

fluid heater(without resin plant)

Potable alcohol ( IMFL) by blending, bottling of alcohol products

Printing ink manufacturing

Printing press

Reprocessing of waste plastic including PVC

Rolling mill (oil or coal fired) and cold rolling mill

Spray painting, paint baking, paint shipping

Steel and steel products using various furnaces like blast furnace /open hearth

furnace/induction furnace/arc furnace/submerged arc furnace /basic oxygen furnace

/hot rolling reheated furnace

Stone crushers

Surgical and medical products including prophylactics and latex

Tephlon based products

Thermocol manufacturing ( with boiler)

Tobacco products including cigarettes and tobacco/opium processes

Transformer repairing/ manufacturing ( dry process only)

Tyres and tubes vulcanization/ hot retreating

Vegetable oil manufacturing including solvent extraction and refinery / hydrogenated

oils All sorts of pollution are generated.

This score is valid for plants having waste-water generation < 100 KLD.

If the waste-water generation is more than 100 KLD, the unit shall be classified as Red.

Wire drawing and wire netting

Dry cell battery ( excluding manufacturing of electrodes) and assembling & charging

of acid lead battery on micro scale

Pharmaceutical formulation and for R & D purpose ( For sustained release/ extended

release of drugs only and not for commercial purpose)

All sorts of pollution are generated.

R&D activities are to be shifted to Red category.

Synthetic resins

Synthetic rubber excluding molding

Cashew nut processing

Coffee seed processing

Parboiled Rice Mills

Rice Mills are generating both air and water pollution. Waste-waters are having high

strength in respect of BOD.

This is the normalized air & water pollution score for units having waste-water

generation < 100 KLD and fuel consumption less than 12 MTD.

For units having waste-water generation > 100 KLD or fuel consumption > 12 MTD or

both, the unit shall be classified as Red.

Foam manufacturing

Industries engaged in recycling / reprocessing/ recovery/reuse of Hazardous Waste

under schedule iv of HW( M, H& TBM) rules, 2008 – Items namely – Used Oil – As

per specifications prescribed from time to time.

Producer gas plant using conventional up drift coal gasification (linked to rolling

mills glass and ceramic industry refectories for dedicated fuel supply)

III. Green Category

S.NO INDUSTRY SECTOR

Aluminum utensils from aluminum circles by pressing only (dry mechanical operation)

Ayurvedic and homeopathic medicines (without boiler)

Bakery /confectionery /sweets products (with production capacity 1 tpd (with gas or

electrical oven)

Bi-axially oriented PP film along with metalizing operations

Biomass briquettes (sun drying) without using toxic hazardous wastes

Blending of mela mine resins & different powder, additives by physical mixing

Brass and bell metal utensils manufacturing from circles (dry mechanical operation

without re- rolling facility)

Candy

Cardboard or corrugated box and paper products (excluding paper or pulp

manufacturing and without using boilers)

Carpentry & wooden furniture manufacturing (excluding saw mill) with the help of

electrical (motorized) machines such as electrical wood planner, steel saw cutting

circular blade, etc.

Cement products (without using asbestos / boiler / steam curing) like pipe, pillar, jafri,

well ring, block/tiles etc.(should be done in closed covered shed to control fugitive

emissions)

Ceramic colour manufacturing by mixing & blending only (not using boiler and

wastewater recycling process)

Chilling plant, cold storage and ice making

Coke briquetting (sun drying)

Cotton spinning and weaving (small scale)

Dal Mills

Decoration of ceramic cups and plates by electric furnace

Digital printing on PVC clothes

Facility of handling, storage and transportation of food grains in bulk

Glass , ceramic, earthen potteries, tile and tile manufacturing using electrical kiln or

not involving fossil fuel kiln

Glue from starch (physical mixing) with gas / electrically operated oven /boiler.

Gold and silver smithy (purification with acid smelting operation and sulphuric acid

polishing operation) (using less or equal to 1 litre of sulphuric acid/ nitric acid per

month)

Heat treatment with any of the new technology like ultrasound probe, induction

hardening, ionization beam, gas carburizing etc .

Insulation and other coated papers (excluding paper or pipe manufacturing)

Leather foot wear and leather products (excluding tanning and hide processing

except cottage scale)

Lubricating oil, greases or petroleum-based products (only blending at normal

temperature)

Manufacturing of pasted veneers using gas fired boiler or thermic fluid heater and by

sun drying

Oil mill Ghani and extraction (no hydrogenation / refining)

Packing materials manufacturing from non-asbestos fiber, vegetable fiber yarn

Phenyl/toilet cleaner formulation and bottling

Polythene and plastic processed products manufacturing (virgin plastic)

Poultry, Hatchery and Piggery

Power looms (without dye and bleaching)

Puffed rice (muri) (using gas or electrical heating system)

Pulverization of bamboo and scrap wood

Ready mix cement concrete

Reprocessing of waste cotton

Rice mill (Rice hullers only)

Rolling mill (gas fired) and cold rolling mill

Rubber goods industry (with gas operated baby boiler)

Saw mills

Soap manufacturing (hand made without steam boiling / boiler)

Spice grinding (upto-20 HP motor)

Spice grinding (> 20 hp motor)

Steel furniture without spray painting

Steeping and processing of grains

Tyres and tube retreating (without boilers)

Chilling plant and ice making without using ammonia

CO2 recovery

Distilled water (without boiler) with electricity as source of heat

Hotels (up to 20 rooms and without boilers)

Manufacturing of optical lenses (using electrical furnace)

Mineralized water

Tamarind powder manufacturing

Cutting, sizing and polishing of marble stone

Emery powder ( fine dust of sand) manufacturing

Flyash export, transport & disposal facilities

Mineral stack yard / Railway sidings

Oil and gas transportation pipeline

Seasoning of wood in steam heated chamber

Synthetic detergent formulation

Tea processing (with boiler) With boiler, it is an orange category industry. Without

boiler, it will be green category industry.

IV. White Category

S.NO INDUSTRY SECTOR

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 blocking)

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 woolen 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

DGlass 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)

Y. SRILAKSHMI

SPECIAL CHIEF SECRETARY GOVERNMENT

ANDHRA PRADESH GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY

[PART-I