Industries manufacturing the following shall be prohibited within National Capital Territory of Delhi.

A public utility service involving any of the activities referred to above shall be permitted subject to environmental laws. Further additions/alterations to the list of Prohibited Industries could be made if considered appropriate and in public interest by the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) to do so. 

1. Arc/induction furnace

2. Acids

3. Alkalis

4. Animal & fish oils

5. Aldehydes

6. Acid slurry

7. Acetylides, phridines, iodoform, chloroform, E-nepthol etc.

8. Ammonium sulphoajanide, arsenic and its compounds, barium carbonate, barium cyanide, barium ethyle sulphate, barium acetate cinnabar, copper sulphocyanide, ferrocyanide, hydro cyanide, hydro cyanic acid, potassium biocalate, potassium, cyanide, prussiate of potash, phynigallc acid, silver cyanide

9. Aircraft building

10. Abattoirs, animal blood processing (except existing and relocation)

11. Bitumen blowing (hot)

12. Brick kiln (using fresh earth as raw material, coal as fuel)

13. B-nepthol

14. Bakelite powder (starting from formaldehyde)

15. Barely malt and extract

16. Bone-grist, bone-meal, salting of bones, storages of bones in open, bone drying

17. Bone charcoal manufacturing

18. Blast furnaces - coal fired

19. Bicycles (integrated plant)

20. Brewery and potable spirits

21. Chlorinated paraffin wax purification

22. Carbon black

23. Cement industry

24. Calcium carbide, phosphorous, aluminum dust paste and powder, copper, zinc etc. (electrothermal industries)

25. Cranes, hoists and lifts (excluding assembly)

26. General industrial machinery (such as hydraulic equipments, drilling equipments, boilers, etc.)

27. DOP (Dioctyl Phthalate), DBP & Plasticizer

28. Dry cell battery

29. Dye & dye intermediates

30. Distillation of wood, chemical seasoning of wood (excluding natural seasoning)

31. Explosives, i.e., Fireworks, Gunpowder, Guncotton, etc.

32. Earth moving machinery/equipment (manufacturing of assembly)

33. Electric wires and cables (more than 100 workers, 2000 sqm plot)

34. Fatty acids

35. Fungicides & pesticides

36. Flexographic ink

37. Fuel oils, illuminating oils and other oils such as stchetic oil, shoal oil, lubricants

38. Foundries (except Pit Furnace)

39. Gas compressors

40. Graphite production

41. Glass furnace (more than 1 ton/day capacity)

42. Gases-carbon-disulphide, ultramarine blue, chlorine, hydrogen, sulphur dioxide, acetylene, etc. (other than LPG/ CNG/Oxygen/medical gases)

43. Glandular/glandes extraction

44. Glue and gelatine from bones and flesh

45. Hot mix plant (except those approved by DPCC / CPCB)

46. Hazardous waste processing viz. hospital/medical/industrial waste

47. Polyurethene foam

48. Industrial gelatine, nitro glycerine and fulminate

49. Iron / steel metal forging (using pneumatic hammer).

50. Industrial gelatine, nitro glycerine and fulminate

51. Industrial trucks, trailers, etc.

52. Linear alkyd benzene

53. Lead manufacturing including secondary lead industry (recovery of lead from waste scrap)

54. Lime kiln.

55. Leather tanning and dyeing (raw hides/skins to semi finish)

56. Locomotives and wagons

57. Methanol

58. Methylated spirit

59. Mechanical stone crushers & washing of coarse sand

60. Manufacturing of pulp & paper

61. Melamine resin

62. Mineral salts (which involve use of acids: CuSO4, FESO4, alum, etc.)

63. Manufacturing of diesel engines, generators except assembly

64. Motor cycles, scooters, cars, tempos, trucks, etc.

65. News print manufacturing, pulping, fresh paper making

66. Nitrogeneors and phosphatic fertilizers, except mixing of fertilizers for compounding (large scale)

67. Organic solvent, chlorinated minerals, methanol, aldehydes, methylated spirits

68. Petroleum coke processing, not as fuel

69. Potteries/refractories (using coal or furnace oil)

70. Polyethylene polymers including resins

71. Paint industry (nitro Cellulose & Alkyd resin based)

72. Plasticisers manufacturing

73. Pyridines

74. Phenol formaldehyde resin and powder

75. Porcelain product potteries (using coal of production capacity more than 2 tonne per day)

76. Rubber solution and thinner (using naptha and rubber scrap)

77. Roasting of Ore Sulphide Oxides of mixtures

78. Rayon fibre manufacturing

79. Refractories

80. Reclamation of rubber.

81. Production of tyres and tubes (devulcanisation)

82. Saccharine

83. Secondary Zine industry

84. Synthetic rubber

85. Smelting

86. Sewing machines (integrated units) except assembly

87. Sluice gates and gears

88. Stainless Steel Pickling

89. Steam engines

90. Steel pipes and tubes (continuous welded/seamless)

91. Sugar, khand sari

92. Sodium silicatc industry (more than 1 tonne/day)

93. Stone quarrying

94. Textile (more than 100 workers in all shifts, I acre of land, 100 LKD of water)

95. Thorium, radium and similar isotopes and recovery of rare earth

96. Turbines

97. Urea & Phenyl Formaldehyde resin

98. Vegetable oil hydrogenerated

99. Waste (crude / burnt) oil processing (refinery)