PART I EXTRAORDINARY

MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION & URBAN DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT (M)

Municipal Administration and Urban Development Department – Town Planning -

GIS based Master Plan of Kakinada Municipal Corporation in KAUDA Region and

surrounding villages – Sanction under Section 13 of Andhra Pradesh Metropolitan

Region and Urban Development Authorities Act, 2016 – Accorded – Orders –

Issued.

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[G.O.Ms.No.52, Municipal Administration & Urban Development (M)

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 General Town

Planning Scheme (GIS based Master Plan) for Kakinada Municipal Corporation and

its surrounding villages and 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 Kakinada Municipal Corporation, Kakinada / KAUDA, Kakinada/

surrounding villages/Panchayats included in this scheme for a period of six months.

Registered No. HSE-49/2016

No.185

AMARAVATI, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 2025

G.1028

NOTIFICATIONS BY GOVERNMENT

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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 ..........................................................................

GENERALCONDITIONS ...................................................................................

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

ZONINGREGULATIONS ...................................................................................

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 ...........................................................................

3.10Growth Corridor Use Zone ....................................................................

3.11 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 10 Development Promotion Zones [DPZ] and 02 Protected use Zone [PR]

are proposed for the Master Plan area of KAKINADA.

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)

Applicability of the Zoning Regulations

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.

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.

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 KAKINADA

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 KAKINADA Municipal Corporation 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. 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, the Andhra Pradesh

Municipal Corporations Act 1994, 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 Metropolitan Region and Urban Development

Authorities Act, 2016, the Andhra Pradesh Municipal Corporations Act 1994.

“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.

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 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

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

processing

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

building

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

public

welfare

reasons

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

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,

(c)

Cloth and garment shops,

(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 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) 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 there on; or

of—

(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,

concerned with 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 law or contract ensuring

that the ground below it is either a street or is permanently and irrevocably

appropriated as an open space.

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 GramaKhantam 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 use 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 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

case

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)

(10) Growth Corridor Use Zone(GC) 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]

3.1

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



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,

physically

challenged/disabled/handicapped

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



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

18 m



Exhibition and artgallery



Libraries



Gardens



Parks



Tot-lots



Plant, nurseries



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

3.1.10



Professional establishments in individual buildings

within plot area up to 500sq.m

12 m

3.1.11



Nursery School



Primary School



High school



Research institutes (non-hazardous nature)



Technical training centers



Tutorial Institutions

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 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

12 m

3.1.22



Retail Gas outlets/LPG

12 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.

3.2

Commercial Use

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 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



Weighbridges

3.2.9



IT Parks



Manufacture of computer hardware

3.2.10



Newspaper offices with printing press

Oil rotaries, printing press not exceeding 20

HPEM

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 incommodities



Whole sale markets and Mandis



Fruit and Vegetable markets



Meat and fish markets



Cattle fair ground

where minimum road

width is 18m in respect

of municipalities

3.2.19



Timber storage



Cold storages and ripening chambers



Weighbridges



Gas Godowns

3.2.20



Broadcasting, telecasting and

tele communication stations

3.2.21



Private helipads subject to clearance by

Civil Aviation department

3.3

Mixed Use:

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

including the following:

Allowable activities

Required Road width

3.3.1



Banks and Safe Deposit Vaults



Business Office



Kalyanamandapam /Function hall



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

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.)

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



Hair dressing saloons

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

12 m

3.3.10



Fuel filling stations without service facilities



Automobile service stations (with installation not exceeding

30HP)

12 m

3.3.11



Taxi stands



Car parking including multilevel parking



Automobile workshop with (floor area not

exceeding 300sq.m)

12 m

3.3.12



Broadcasting,

telecasting

and tele

communication stations



Newspaper offices with printing press

12 m

3.3.13



All White category industries are permissible (as per the

list enclosed in Annexure A)

12m

3.4

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 playgrounds



Sports and recreation uses

3.4a.6



Public utility buildings

3.4a.7



Restaurants

3.4a.8



Transport

terminals

for

goods

and

passengers



Junkyards



Taxistands



Stockyards

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

3.5

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 fairgrounds



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



enabled

services

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 or

hazard

3.5.14



Bank

3.5.15



Guesthouse



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



Railwaystation /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

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.

3.6

Public Utilities Use Zone:

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 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

v3.6.6



Observatory and weather office

3.6.7



Petrol filling stations with garages &service

stations



Weighbridges

3.6.8



Warehousing

3.6.9



Public utility buildings.

3.6.10



Any

other use/activity

incidental

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.

3.7

Recreational Open Space UseZone:

Allowable Activities

Required Road Width

3.7.1



Regional parks



All other parks



Playgrounds



Children traffic parks



Specialized parks/ Maidans for multiuse

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

encourage tourism promotion.



Building and structures ancillary to uses

permitted in open spaces and parks such as

stand for vehicles on hire,subjectto

the total ground coverage not exceeding2%,

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

exceeding5%.

3.7.5



Film Studios/city having minimum plotarea

of 10 acres, with ground coverage not

exceeding10%

3.8

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

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 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.

3.9

Agricultural UseZone:

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



Pisci culture, 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



Agricultural

Land

use

Residential

and

Industrial layouts are allowed by paying the

Conversion Charges. However the activities

shall be allowed as per Zoning Regulations.

As per layout

rules in force

3.9.4



All White 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 playgrounds

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



Racecourse



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



Petrol/Gas filling stations

12 m

3.9.23



Electrical/Battery recharge Stations

3.10

Growth Corridor Use Zone (GC):

All the usages permissible in Commercial Use Zone are allowed in Growth Corridor

Use Zone.

(B) PROTECTED USE ZONE [PR]

3.11

Protected Use Zone[PR]

Allowable Activities

Required Road

Width

3.11.1

Protected(Blue)



Water bodies generally indicates all existing

water courses, rivers, canals, lakes, tanks

and Kuntas as indicated in the topographical

sheets

published

the

Survey

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, and 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.



For all water bodies buffer to be provided at

the

time

approval

development

permissions based on the size of the water

body to the extent of rules in force time to

time.

3.11.2

Protected Zone(Green)



No development permission shall be allowed

except Agriculture, Horticulture, Mangroves

and forestry use



Parks



Botanical gardens



Picnic spots



Public utilities



Electrical substations



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.

*Buffer should be provided to water bodies, HT lines, Railway property etc., as per AP

Building Rules- 2017 and AP Land Development Rules.

3.12 Transit Oriented Development Zone [TOD]

3.12.1



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.

**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.

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 categorization 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

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 > 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.

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-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 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/nonalcoholic 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)

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 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-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)

S.SURESH KUMAR

PRINCIPAL SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT