PART I EXTRAORDINARY

MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION & URBAN DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT (H)

Municipal Administration and Urban Development Department – Town Planning– Nellore

Municipal Corporation in NUDA Region – GIS based Master Plan of Nellore Municipal

Corporation– Sanction under Section 13 of APMR&UDA Act, 2016 - Accorded – Orders –

Issued.

[G.O.Ms.No.50.,

Municipal

Administration

Urban

Development

(H)

Department, 26^th March, 2025]

NOTIFICATION

In exercise of the powers conferred under Section 13 of APMR&UDA Act, 2016,

the Government of Andhra Pradesh hereby sanction the GIS based Master Plan of

Nellore Municipal Corporation in NUDA region to an extent of 140.33 SqKm subject to

condition that the Building Rules, 2017issuedin 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, respectively.

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

the Nellore Municipal Corporation, NUDA for a period of six months.

Registered No. HSE-49/2016

No.183

AMARAVATI, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 2025

G.1026

NOTIFICATIONS BY GOVERNMENT

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Contents

INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................... 4

1.1.

Zoning Regulations ................................................................................................... 4

1.2.

Land Use Categories of Master Plan: .......................................................................... 4

1.3.

Applicability of the Zoning Regulations ....................................................................... 5

1.4.

Short Title, Scope, Extent &Commencement ............................................................... 5

GENERALCONDITIONS ....................................................................................................... 6

2.1.

Definitions ............................................................................................................... 6

ZONINGREGULATIONS ..................................................................................................... 15

3.1

Residential Use Zone ...............................................................................................16

3.2

Commercial Use ......................................................................................................18

3.3

Mixed Use:..............................................................................................................20

3.4

Industrial Use: ........................................................................................................22

3.5

Public and Semi-Public Use (Institutional)Zone:..........................................................23

3.6

Public Utilities Use Zone: ..........................................................................................26

3.7

Recreational Open Space Use Zone: ..........................................................................27

3.8

Transportation Use Zone: .........................................................................................28

3.9

Agricultural Use Zone: .............................................................................................29

3.10

Protected Use Zone[PR] ...........................................................................................32

3.11 Transit Oriented Development Zone[TOD] ...................................................................33

INTRODUCTION

1.1. 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 givensettlement.

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 ofdevelopment.

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

proposed for the Master Plan area of Nellore.

1.2. Land Use Categories of MasterPlan:

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)

1.3. Applicability of the ZoningRegulations

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 theseregulations.

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 tolife.

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 MasterPlan.

1.4. Short Title, Scope, Extent &Commencement

Title

These Regulations shall be called the "Zoning Regulations for Nellore Planning

Area.

Scope of the ZoningRegulations

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 Nellore Master Plan area in Andhra

Pradesh.

Date ofCommencement

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.

GENERALCONDITIONS

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 theserules.

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

2.1.1. an area of land separating adjacent land uses that is managed for the purpose of

mitigating impacts of one use on theother.

2.1.2. an area within which sensitive uses are either restricted orprohibited.

2.1.3. A buffer area consists of a separation distance and one or more buffer elements.

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

may include open ground, a vegetation buffer and or acousticbarrier.

“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, Projectionsetc.

(d) Any wall enclosing or intended to enclose any land or space, sign andoutdoor display

structuresetc.

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

storage of water, effluent, swimming pool, pondsetc.

(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

ceremonialoccasions.

“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 andrecords.

iii.

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

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

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 usedfor-

(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 poisonousfumes.

(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 factoriesetc.

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,abandonedwomen, 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 dharma shalas, 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 totime.

"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 samebuilding.

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-risebuilding.

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 ofpublication.

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

building

which

sleeping

accommodationisprovidedfornormalresidentialpurposes,withorwithout 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 theAuthority

xvi.

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

precincts thereof or relatedplaces.

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 andstable.

xviii.

"Unsafe Building" means a buildingwhich,

(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

reasons

inadequate

maintenance,

dilapidation

orabandonment.

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 repairshops,

(b) Books and stationery shops orstores,

(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. m,

(i)

Milk and milk productsshops,

(j)

Newspaper, magazine stalls and circulatinglibraries,

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

audio/videolibraries,

(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

dyeingestablishments,

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

(p) Shops selling bakeryproducts,

(q) Tailor or darnershops,

(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

alsoconstructsstructuresonanyoftheplots,forthepurposeof selling to other persons all

or some of the plots in the said project, whether with or without structures there

on;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

generalpublic.

Explanation.—Forthepurposesofthisclause,wherethepersonwhoconstructs

converts

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 accessoriessuch 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 anyliquid.

“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 GramPanchayats;

“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/StructuralEngineer/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 andCivic 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 publicuses.

“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

thebuilding.

“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 werelet.

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

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

(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,

building devoted to religious or charitablepurposes,

(d) A mortgage of a lease holder soempowered.

“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 thevehicles.

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

(a) If it is astreet,

(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

openspace.

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 aplace.

“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 publicpurpose.

“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 streetlines.

“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 GramaKhantam or Agraharam or Abadi” means alllands 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 ashop.

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

a natural channel meant for carrying storm and wastewater.

“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.

ZONINGREGULATIONS

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 proposedare:

(1) Residential Use Zone(R),

(2) Commercial Use Zone(C),

(3) Mixed UseZone(M),

(4) Industrial UseZone(I),

a. Work Centre zone (Green and WhiteIndustries)

b. Hazardous /Polluting industrial zone (Red and Orange

Industries)

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

(6) Public Utilities UseZone(PU),

(7) Recreational Open Space Use Zone (RE)

(8) Transportation UseZone(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 UseZone

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



All types of Residential Layouts

3.1.2



Hostels



Boarding House

3.1.3



Community Halls/Auditorium (Constructed by the

Government Agencies)



Night Shelter, Dharmashala, homes for senior citizens,

orphanages,physicallychallenged/disabled/handicappe

people,

Clubs,

Cultural

and

Philanthropic

associations of non- commercial nature



Community center without commercial activity

3.1.4



Guesthouses



Service Apartment



Bachelor quarters



Staff Quarters

3.1.5



Post-offices



Police stations



Fires 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

18 m



Exhibition and artgallery



Libraries



Gardens



Parks



Tot-lots



Plantnur series



SPA, Beauty parlor



Aerobic Center



Gymnasium



Swimming pool



Yoga centers / health clinics

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 500sq.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/FunctionHall

3.1.18



Clinic/Dispensary/Medical

shops/First

Aid

centers

3.1.19



Nursing Homes/Hospitals in the plots with not more

than 500sq.m



Diagnosis centers in the plots with not more than

500sq.m.

12 m

3.1.20



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

1000sq.m



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

1000sq.m

18 m

3.1.21



Petrol filling stations without service stations

18 m



Retail Gasoutlets/LPG (without Godown)

9 m

3.1.23



Battery Recharge stations

9 m

CommercialUse

S.No.

Allowable Activities

Required Road Width

3.2.1



All uses permissible

permissible

in residential uses are

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 centers

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



Weighbridges

3.2.9



ITParks



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

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/FunctionHall

3.2.18



Warehouses and other uses connected with

storage of wholesale trade incommodities



Whole sale markets andMandis



Fruit and Vegetable markets



Meat and fish markets



Cattle fair ground

where minimum road

width is 18m in respect

of municipalities

3.2.19



Timberstorage



Cold storages and ripeningchambers



Weighbridges



GasGodowns

3.2.20



Broadcasting, telecasting and

telecommunicationstations

3.2.21



Private helipads subject to clearance by

Civil Aviation department

MixedUse:

All activities permissible in Residential use zone& Commercial are permissible in mixed use

including the following:

S.No

Allowable activities

Required

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 UtilityBuildings



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, Cinemahalls



Convention centres/Kalyanamandapam /Function

hall

18 m

3.3.5



Hostels



Dormitories



Boarding and Lodging houses



Other WelfareInstitutions

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

12 m

3.3.6



All educational Institutions



ITParks



Manufacture of computerhardware

18 m

3.3.7



Clinics



Hospitals



Dispensaries



Nursing Homes



Other Healthfacilities

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

12 m

3.3.8



Establishments and shops retailingin

Vegetables

Fruits

Flowers

Fish

Meat

Other daily necessities of the residents

Departmentalstores

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

12 m

3.3.9



Organizedmarkets



Bakeries



Confectionaries



Laundries



Tailoring



Goldsmith shops



Hairdressingsaloons

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

12 m

3.3.10



Fuel fillingstations without service facilities



Automobile servicestations

12 m

3.3.11



Taxistands



Car parking including multilevelparking



Automobile workshop with (floor area

not exceeding 300sq.m)

12 m

3.3.12



Broadcasting,

telecasting

and

telecommunicationstations



Newspaper offices with printingpress

12 m

3.3.13



All white and green category industries are

permissible (as per the list enclosed in Annexure

12m

IndustrialUse:

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 printingpress

3.4a.3



Petrol filling stations with garages and

service stations

3.4a.4



Contractors’ plants

3.4a.5



Parks and playgrounds



Sports and recreationuses

3.4a.6



Public utilitybuildings

3.4a.7



Restaurants

3.4a.8



Transport

terminals

for

goods

and

passengers



Junkyards



Taxistands



Stockyards

3.4a.9



Residential buildings forstaff



Shops, Watch and Ward staff quarters

incidental to mainuse

3.4a.10



Loading and unloadingspaces

3.4a.11



Commercial entertainment of a transient

nature like circus

3.4a.12



Hospitals



Nursinghomes

Up to 1000 Sq.m. site

area and 18 m road



Dispensary

3.4a.13



Technical and researchinstitutions

3.4a.14



Quarrying of Clay andStone



Quarrying of Gravel

3.4a.15



Sewage farms



Public utilities like garbage and sewage

disposal

municipal

and

Government

offices

3.4a.16



Goods and LogisticHubs

3.4a.17



All uses

that are permissible

under

Traffic & Transportation use

3.4a.18



Microwavetowers



Powerplants

3.4a.19



Parking lot (includingmulti-level)



Bus and truck terminals

3.4a.20



Dairy and poultryfarms

3.4a.21



Slaughter house and meat processing unit

3.4a.22



Automobile Servicestation

3.4a.23



Ice and freezing plants withpower

3.4a.24



GasGodowns

3.4.(b) Hazardous /Polluting industrial zone

Allowable Activities

Required Road Width

3.4b.1



All types

of industries mentioned in

Annexure-Aunder

RedandOrangecategories Industries

3.4b.2



All other usage permissible from 3.4a.2 to

3.4a.24 arepermissible

Public and Semi-Public Use (Institutional)Zone:

Allowable Activities

Required Road

Width

3.5.1



Local



State



Central government offices anduses



SemiGovernment



Public undertaking offices and uses



Uses incidental to government offices and their use



Radio transmission and wirelessstations



Municipal and communityfacilities



Public utilities

3.5.2



Defense uses



Research and developmentcenters

3.5.3



Libraries



All educational and medicalinstitutions

3.5.4



All types ofHospitals



Health/primarycenter

3.5.5



Social, welfare and culturalinstitutions

3.5.6



Religious buildings/centers



Religious and Welfare Institutions along

withresidentialquarters

3.5.7



Artgalleries



Monuments

3.5.8



Conferencehalls



Functionhalls



KalyanaMandapams



Auditoriums

3.5.9



Off streetparking

3.5.10



Burialground



Cemeteries andcrematoria

3.5.11



Sportsstadium



Swimming pools



Gardens, Parks, play grounds and other recreational

uses requiring extensive open space



Exhibitions and fairgrounds



Special recreational areas



Picnic spots



Geological and botanicalgardens



Museums



Aquarium



Water fronts and areas of scenic interest and

national parks



Open air theatres



Temporary uses forexhibition



Circus fair festivals



Welfare center



Auditorium



Recreationalclub



Golf Courses



Race courses/Gokarting/Racing track



Shooting ranges



Amusement Parks and ThemeParks



Stables



Planetarium



Horticulturalnursery

3.5.12



Computer software units



IT enabled

services

on independent

plots

having at least 1000 sq.msize.

3.5.13



Residential and other uses incidental tothe

main use and in no way causing any nuisance

orhazard

3.5.14



Bank

3.5.15



Guesthouse



Hostels

3.5.16



Water supplyinstallations



Sewage disposal works



Service stations



Jail



Policestation



Postoffice

3.5.17



Rail and Roadterminus



Helipads



Airports/Port



Airport related ancillaryuses



Railwaystation/yard

3.5.18



Educational Institutions like.,



School,

Degree

Colleges

and

Professional

Colleges/Universities



Polytechniccollege



Library



Research and developmentcenter

3.5.19



Petrolpump

3.5.20



Residential

plotted

group

housing

for

staff/employees as incidental to the mainuse



Retail shoppingcentre

3.5.21



Spastic rehabilitationcenters



Orphanages



Choultaries



Old age homes

3.5.22



DobhiGhat

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

to neighbouringfields.

Public Utilities UseZone:

Allowable Activities

Required Road Width

3.6.1



Road transport terminals(Bus

terminals&depots)



GoodsTerminals



Parkingareas



Truckterminal



Railways

–

Passenger

and

Freight

Terminals

3.6.2



Airports buildings andinfrastructure



Helipads

3.6.3



Motor garage



Workshop and incidentalamenities

3.6.4



Bookingoffices

3.6.5



Transmission center



Wireless station



Radio and televisionstation



Telephoneexchange

v3.6.6



Observatory and weatheroffice

3.6.7



Petrol filling stations with garages &service

stations



Weighbridges

3.6.8



Warehousing

3.6.9



Public utilitybuildings.

3.6.10



Any

other use/activity

incidental to

transport

and

communication

use,

residential units for staff.

3.6.11



Accessory and support shoppingactivity

3.6.12



Banks

3.6.13



Hotels



Restaurants



Way sideamenities.

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 UseZone:

Allowable Activities

Required Road Width

3.7.1



Regionalparks



All otherparks



Playgrounds



Children trafficparks



Specialized parks/ Maidans for multiuse

3.7.2



Botanical/ Zoological garden



BirdSanctuary

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 like irrigation department, River

conservation

etc

encourage

tourismpromotion.



Building and structures ancillary to uses

permitted in open spaces and parks such

asstandforvehiclesonhire,subjectto

the total ground coverage not exceeding

2%, Camping grounds



Open air cinemas



Commercials use of transit nature like cinema



Circus and othershows

3.7.4



Holiday resorts having minimum plot area of

10 acres with ground coverage not

exceeding5%.

3.7.5



Film Studios/city having minimum plotarea of

acres,

with

ground

coverage

not

exceeding10%

Transportation UseZone:

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



AerialRopeway

3.8.2



Airport

3.8.3



Auto Garages & Repair Shops andfacilities

such as nightshelters

3.8.4



AutomobileShowrooms



Logistic Park / Ware houses / CFS-

Container FreightStation

3.8.5



Bus Bays & Local BusStand



Bus Terminus &Depot

3.8.6



ColdStorage

3.8.7



ContainerTerminal

3.8.8



Convention Centers



ExhibitionGrounds

3.8.9



ElectricalSubstation



Fire Station / Disaster risk resilience Centre



Fuel Filling Station / Petrol / Gas / Diesel /

BioDiesel

3.8.10



Garden, Parks

3.8.11



Helipad,Heliport

3.8.12



Hotels



Lodging / GuestHouses



Restaurant / Canteen / Eatinghouses

3.8.13



Jetty along navigable water bodies, rivers,

canals,sea

3.8.14



TruckParking



Multi-level Parking, OpenParking/Taxi

/ Auto Rickshaw Stand

3.8.15



All Govt.Offices



Police Outpost & Police / Traffic Police

Station



RTO

3.8.16



Piped Gas ControlStation,

3.8.17



Railway / Metro / BRTSStation,

3.8.18



Retail

trade

and services

including

bankbranch

3.8.19



Second Hand Junk goods and Junk yards

3.8.20



Sewerage

Treatment

Plant,

Solid

WasteDisposalandTreatmentSites/

Landfills

3.8.21



Staff Quarters Incidental to mainuse

3.8.22



TradeCenter

3.8.23



Market / WeeklyBazaar

3.8.24



All Commercial uses as incidental to main

use shall be permitted including shopping

complex, malls, miniplex/multiplex etc.

and prior approval of DTCP may be

obtained provided that separate parking

space shall be provided as per AP

BuildingsRules

alongwithotherconditionsasperAPBuilding

Rules and its Amendments.

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

zone.

Agricultural UseZone:

Allowable Activities

Required Road

Width

3.9.1



All agricultural uses and Horticultureuses



Diary and Cattle/Cow Shed, Gaushallas, Emu

Farms, StudFarms



Cattle fairgrounds



Piggeries, poultry farms, animal and bird farms



Fish farms



Forestry



Pisciculture, Floriculture



Aquafarms



Hatcheries

3.9.2



ElectricSub-stations



Receivingstations



Water tanks andreservoirs



Burial/burning grounds or crematoria and brick

kilns



All types of brick/block industries



Pre-cast cementindustries



Ready mix concreteplants

3.9.3

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.

 In Agricultural Land use Residential and Industrial

layouts are allowed by paying the Conversion

Charges. However the activities shall be allowed as

per Zonning Regulations.

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 fillingstations

12 m

3.9.6



Storing and drying of fertilizers incidental to the

agricultural operations

3.9.7



Camping sites and other recreationaluses



Parks and playgrounds

3.9.8



Sewage farms and garbage dumps



Water treatmentplants



Sewerage TreatmentPlant

3.9.9



Functionhalls



Hospitals and Hostels



All EducationalBuildings



VetinaryHospital

18 m

3.9.10



Amusement parks such as Disney landtype



Eco-tourismactivities



Toytrains



Gardens/ Botanical and Geologicalgardens



Orchards



Nurseries



Golf centers



Racecourse



Race/Driving testingtracks



Culturalbuildings

18 m

3.9.11



Livestock rearing milk chillingcenters

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



Concreteblock

3.9.14



Weigh bridges

12 m

3.9.15



Places ofworship

3.9.16



Helipads

18 m

3.9.17



Mini powerprojects

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

majorroads

12 m

3.9.20



Truckterminals

18 m

3.9.21



Quarrying and removal of clay and stone up to

3.0m depth andcrushing

3.9.22



Electrical/Battery rechargeStations

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

competentauthorities



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 forfishing 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

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



Botanicalgardens



Picnic spots



Public utilities



Electrical substations



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

and station are permitted in thezone.



Quarrying is allowed in the Hillock area subject

to prior NOC from the relevant departments viz.

namely Revenue, Mining, Forest etc.

3.11 Transit Oriented Development Zone[TOD]

3.11.1



The roads under TOD corridor will be notified

by the Government from time to time.



On both sides of notified TOD corridor up to

250.0m Mixed land use zone allowed for

development permissions.



Special impact fee shall be collected as fixed

by the Government from time to time in the

notified TOD zones on every development

permission.



Other regulations are applicable in TOD zone

as per G.O.Ms.No.87 MA&UD dt.01-07-2022.

*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.

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.

Someofsuchplantsmayoutsourcesome/allofthepollutingactivities.Insuch

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 containingzinc..

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 thisSchedule.

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

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,thenormalizedwaterpollutionscorewillbe50andwillbe

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 > 100KLD.

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. Thehotelshavingmorethan20roomsandwaste-watergenerationlessthan10

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 othercosmetic 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.

III.

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 othercosmetic 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

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-stearate 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 be62.5 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 ofadhesives.

2. Without boiler, it will be a Green categoryindustry.

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.

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

under

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

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

cottagescale)

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-asbestosfiber, 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.

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)

Flavored 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)

S.SURESH KUMAR

PRINCIPAL SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT