• To build up a industrial plant or interaction which is probably going to release destructive chemicals, effluents, it is the compulsory prerequisite of the Board that individual needs to acquire earlier permission of the Board.

• Further, assuming any individual is setting up any industrial plant, which is probably going to release effluents and unsafe chemicals in abundance of allowable cutoff laid by the Board, the industry needs to get earlier consent (NOC) of the Board.

• Prior to giving the approval to establish, the Board needs to be contended that the industry has the vital office to deal with and treat waste released by such industry.

To get the consent of the Board, the concerned individual is needed to present an application in an endorsed form alongside pertinent documents to the Board and the occupier is additionally needed to acquire earlier consent from the Board for dealing with unsafe waste, make plastic convey packs as given under different guidelines recommended under the Environment (Protection) Act 1986. The forms as to earlier consent are accessible online on the Karnataka pollution board site, and it is additionally accessible at the territorial office.

Classification of Industries

With the end goal of consent to establish (NOC), the ventures/associations have been sorted as following:

• Red classification

• Orange classification

• Green classification

• White classification

The term of the approval allowed to an industry relies on the classification it gets in. Approval of Industry falling under Red and orange classification is valid for five years, while the approval of the industry falling under green classification is a time of a decade. The red and orange classification is of industries which are seriously contaminating hence are needed to satisfy extra conditions like having STP plant, online observance of pollution, submitting yearly pollution information to the Board and so forth Nonetheless, Industries falling under White class are not needed to acquire approval prior to setting up, for the explanation that they are not weighty contaminating industries and hence are outside the purview of the consent policy. There are complete 57 industries which falls under this classification. The Board has commanded every one of the industries aside from those ventures which fall under white classification to get consent prior to beginning any operation.