Pollution Consent Fee Calculator
Work out the government fee payable to a State Pollution Control Board for a Consent to Establish and a Consent to Operate — with the slab, the Water Act and Air Act split, and the Board's notification shown against every figure.
Read this before you rely on a figure. Every rupee amount here is taken from the State Board's own published schedule, cited against the result. Nothing is estimated, and a state whose schedule could not be obtained is listed as not yet loaded rather than filled in with a guess. The fee follows from the category, so set the category the Board has assigned to your unit. The industry lookup is an aid only: it uses the Central Pollution Control Board list of 29 February 2016, which the Board's classification of January 2025 has superseded, so confirm any category it suggests with the Regional Office before filing.
Fee schedules loaded: 9 statesIndustry lookup: Central Pollution Control Board 2016 list, 242 sectorsData last checked: 18 September 2026
Project details
Rajasthan — government fee
Red categoryTotal statutory fee
₹1,26,000
Payable separately under the Water Act 1974 and the Air Act 1981, so each consent is counted twice.
SlabAbove 2 crore and up to 5 crore → ₹21,000
- Under the Water Act 1974
- ₹21,000
- Under the Air Act 1981
- ₹21,000
SlabAbove 2 crore and up to 5 crore → ₹42,000
One fee for the whole consent period
- Under the Water Act 1974
- ₹42,000
- Under the Air Act 1981
- ₹42,000
- Consent to Establish
- 5 years, extendable on application made at least four months before expiry
- Consent to Operate
- 5 years
Note 4 — a mine seeking consent for additional or enhanced production, or for a new mineral, within the validity of an existing Consent to Operate and without increase in lease area, pays 20 per cent of the prescribed fee.
Note 2 — for mines the consent period is coterminous with the lease validity.
Note 3 — for quarry licences the Consent to Operate is normally for one year, extendable to three years on deposit of adequate fees where the quarry licence is valid for three years.
Authority for these figures
Fee notification dated 26 May 2016 — G.S.R. 13 under the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act 1981 and G.S.R. 14 under the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act 1974.
Open the source document on the Board's siteThe same schedule is notified under the Air Act 1981 (G.S.R. 13) and the Water Act 1974 (G.S.R. 14). The fee is payable separately under each Act.
Check these before you file
- Two different schedules appear on the Board's own website. The gazette notification of 26 May 2016 (G.S.R. 13 and G.S.R. 14) carries the figures used here. The Board's 'Application Form and Fee Schedule for Consent' document carries a schedule numbered G.S.R. 21 and G.S.R. 22 with the same Consent to Establish figures but different Consent to Operate figures and different validity periods (Red 3 years, Orange 5 years, Green 10 years). Confirm which is current before filing.
- In the highest slab the notification prints four figures without repeating the column headings. The mapping of those figures to Red, Orange, Green and Consent to Operate follows the column order of the table above it.
- The notification does not describe the Consent to Operate fee as annual. Read with the validity periods it appears to cover the whole consent period. Confirm with the Regional Office before relying on it.
- Basis of investment — The notification prescribes slabs of capital investment but does not define the term. The Board separately prescribes a format for a capital investment certificate to be filed in original.
Take the working with you
₹99Fee working and document checklist, as a PDF file
The calculation above is free and stays free. For ₹99, inclusive of Goods and Services Tax, you get it as a dated file in your unit's name — the slab, the rate, the Water Act and Air Act split, the Board's notification and its cautions — with the checklist of 9 documents to gather before filing.
Your file will be prepared for exactly this: Rajasthan · Red category · ₹2,50,00,000 · total ₹1,26,000. Change anything above first — the figures are fixed to the order once you pay.
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The fee schedule this result came from
The slab your project falls into is marked. These are the Board's own figures, published here in full so the calculation can be checked rather than taken on trust.
Consent to Establish
| Capital investment | Red category | Orange category | Green category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Up to 5 lakh | ₹3,000 | ₹2,000 | ₹1,000 |
| Above 5 lakh and up to 10 lakh | ₹4,500 | ₹3,000 | ₹1,500 |
| Above 10 lakh and up to 25 lakh | ₹6,000 | ₹4,000 | ₹2,000 |
| Above 25 lakh and up to 50 lakh | ₹9,000 | ₹6,000 | ₹3,000 |
| Above 50 lakh and up to 1 crore | ₹15,000 | ₹10,000 | ₹5,000 |
| Above 1 crore and up to 2 crore | ₹18,000 | ₹12,000 | ₹6,000 |
| Above 2 crore and up to 5 croreYour slab | ₹21,000 | ₹14,000 | ₹7,000 |
| Above 5 crore and up to 10 crore | ₹24,000 | ₹16,000 | ₹8,000 |
| Above 10 crore and up to 25 crore | ₹30,000 | ₹20,000 | ₹10,000 |
| Above 25 crore and up to 50 crore | ₹37,500 | ₹25,000 | ₹12,500 |
| Above 50 crore | ₹50,000 plus ₹1,000 per crore or part thereof | 70 per cent of the fee applicable to Red category | 35 per cent of the fee applicable to Red category |
Consent to Operate — The notification does not describe the Consent to Operate fee as annual. Read with the validity periods it appears to cover the whole consent period. Confirm with the Regional Office before relying on it.
| Capital investment | All categories |
|---|---|
| Up to 5 lakh | ₹7,500 |
| Above 5 lakh and up to 10 lakh | ₹12,000 |
| Above 10 lakh and up to 25 lakh | ₹16,500 |
| Above 25 lakh and up to 50 lakh | ₹24,000 |
| Above 50 lakh and up to 1 crore | ₹28,500 |
| Above 1 crore and up to 2 crore | ₹37,500 |
| Above 2 crore and up to 5 croreYour slab | ₹42,000 |
| Above 5 crore and up to 10 crore | ₹48,000 |
| Above 10 crore and up to 25 crore | ₹57,000 |
| Above 25 crore and up to 50 crore | ₹72,000 |
| Above 50 crore | ₹72,000 plus ₹1,500 per crore or part thereof |
What effluent and fuel actually change
No Board loaded here prices effluent volume or the presence of a boiler as a line item. What those two facts do is decide which Act you need consent under, and which sector of the Central Pollution Control Board list your unit falls in — and the sector sets the category, which sets the fee column. These are pairs of entries that appear verbatim in the Board's list and differ only on the stated condition.
Waste water
Waste water generation of 100 kilolitres per day
Fuel
Fuel fired rolling mill against a gas fired one
Fuel
Oven or furnace against a gas or electrical oven, with capacity
Fuel
Fired kiln against an electrical kiln
Boiler
Hot process against a process without a boiler
Boiler
With a boiler against without one
Boiler
Oil fired boiler or thermic fluid heater against a gas fired boiler or sun drying
Furnace or generating set
Oil fired furnace against newer heating technology
Boiler
Steam boiling against hand made without a boiler
Furnace or generating set
Capacity of the diesel generating set
Water cess on water consumption
The Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess Act 1977 levied a cess on the volume of water a unit drew, which made water consumption a direct cost alongside the consent fee. It is widely reported to have been repealed with effect from 1 July 2017 on the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax, by the Taxation Laws (Amendment) Act 2017. No cess is therefore added by this calculator.
This tool could not open a primary text of the repealing provision. Several Boards, Maharashtra and Assam among them, still publish live cess return procedures on their websites. Treat the repeal as settled practice but confirm with the Regional Office if an old assessment or arrear period is in issue.
Boiler registration
A boiler is registered and certified under the Indian Boilers Act 1923 by the State Directorate of Boilers, not by the Pollution Control Board. Those fees are separate from the consent fee and are not included here.
Which Act you need consent under
Section 25 of the Water Act 1974 requires prior consent to establish any industry, operation or process, or any treatment and disposal system, "which is likely to discharge sewage or trade effluent into a stream or well or sewer or on land". The Air Act 1981 applies to a unit operating in an air pollution control area, and most States have declared the whole State to be one. In practice Boards ask for both, because almost every premises discharges at least domestic sewage.
State coverage
A state is loaded only once its Board's own notification has been read. The rest are listed with a link to the Board, so nothing here is invented to fill a gap.
Loaded
Rajasthan
26 May 2016
Loaded
Maharashtra
25 August 2011
Loaded
Haryana
5 December 1997, with later additions
Loaded
Punjab
18 July 2013
Loaded
Delhi
9 December 2009
Loaded
Karnataka
3 June 2019
Loaded
Uttar Pradesh
read 18 September 2026
Loaded
Madhya Pradesh
18 September 2026
Partly loaded
Tamil Nadu
9 April 2018
Leave the filing to us
Knowing the fee is the easy part. The Consent to Establish application turns on a feasibility report in the Board's own format, a Chartered Accountant's certificate of capital investment, a site plan, and — for most units — a hazardous waste authorisation alongside. A rejected or returned application costs weeks.
Apply for the pollution licence through us →This calculator gives the statutory fee prescribed by the State Board's published schedule. It does not include Board-specific processing charges, water cess, performance security, public hearing charges, bank charges, or any professional fee. Several Boards revise their schedules without re-issuing a gazette notification, and a few of the schedules loaded here are old instruments whose replacement could not be ruled out — each is flagged against the result. Confirm the amount with the Regional Office or on the Board's own portal before tendering payment. Nothing here is legal or professional advice.