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Classification of Industries – CPCB
April 11 , 2025
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- The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has directed state pollution control boards to adopt a revised classification of industries with a new category, blue.
- They are the so-called “essential environmental services” such as those engaged in maintaining landfills or biomining.
- The “Blue Category sector” is an incentive for the essential services an additional two years validity for consent to operate.
- As per the revised methodology, the category of the sector is decided based on the following ranges of Pollution Index: Red: PI> 80; Orange: 55≤PI<80; Green: 25.
- White category industries are defined as those with minimal pollution potential.
- The CPCB introduced this classification in 2016 to reclassify industries based on their pollution potential.
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