City/Area specific siting guidelines

The Government/Board has laid down city/area specific sitting guidelines for the following towns/areas:

1. Ludhiana
2. Mandi Gobindgarh
3. Capital Periphery Zone (CPZ)/Free Enterprise Zone (FEZ)
4. M.C. limits of Towns/Cities

• Restriction of setting up of industries within 25 km from the Standard Urban Area limit of Ludhiana city:

As per provisions of notification dated 25.07.1991, of Government of India, large and medium scale industries can not allowed to be located within 25 Kms. from the periphery of standard urban area limit of cities having population of more than 10 lakh according to the 1991 census. The Ludhiana is one of such city in Punjab. This condition however, will not apply to electronics, computer softwares, printing industries and other non-polluting industries that may be notified by Govt. of India for this purpose from time to time. Substantial expansion of existing units will also be subject to the locational conditions set out as above.

The details of designated industrial areas where industry is permitted in and around Ludhiana city, are given as under:

• Setting up of Industrial units within M.C. limits of Mandi Gobindgarh

The criteria for establishment of the new industries within M.C. limits of Mandi Gobindgarh was as follows:

1. All industries requiring CSA and / or SAC clearance and environmental clearance from Government of India under EIA notification should be allowed to establish in zone no. 2.
2. All industries except mentioned at Sr. No. 1 above should be allowed to establish in
   zone no. 1

However, the Board vide its decision dated 30/3/2005 has decided that all the industries proposed to be established in the industrial area (Zone – I & II) as per Master Plan of Mandi Gobindgarh may be allowed to establish and no further sub-zoning of industrial area is required.

• Capital Periphery Control Area/Free Enterprise Zone (FEZ)

As per the Capital Periphery Control Act and Sub-Regional plan of Punjab State, no industrial activity can be undertaken within periphery of Chandigarh and its sub-Region except the following areas which have been exempted through notifications mentioned as under:

• General guidelines for location of industries within M.C. limits of the towns/cities

The Board vide its notification No.Admn/SA-2/F.No.178/2001/98 dated 11/11/2001, has decided that the cases of the industries for grant of consent to establish/consent to operate in non-designated areas of the State shall be decided as per the following policy:

1. No new industry of any category shall be allowed in the approved residential area of any town of the State of Punjab. The approved residential area shall be designated either by PUDA/Municipal Corporation/Improvement Trust or any other designated authority of the State and it should be duly reflected in the Master Plan.
2. No new red category industry shall be given consent to establish within municipal limits except in the designated industrial area of the State.
3. The Board may continue to grant consent to establish to green category of industries which are proposed to be located in the mixed category areas or predominantly industrial areas within municipal limits of a town/city after clarification of the area by CTP/STP/DTP.
4. The Board may grant consent to operate to the entire existing green category of industries in mixed category areas or predominantly industrial area.
5. The Board may grant consent to operate to old red categories of industries operating in the approved residential areas or mixed areas but required to be shifted, if they have installed adequate effluent treatment plants and air pollution control devices.

• Initial consent to operate shall be for a period of one year with the condition that it will shift to the designated industrial area within the stipulated period.
• The Board may further extend this period on merit after the expiry of one year in the rarest of the cases subject to the approval of the Board of Directors.