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MAHARASHTRA INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIOP-(A Government of Maharashtra Undertaking)OFFICE ORDER N 0 , 8 0 ? ~ 3 9 of 2013Dated: J ~ / i ! ' / } ; / 0-$-13

Sub: Implementation of Maharashtra Fire Prevention andLife Safety Measures Act, 2006 and Rules, 2009Simplification of process for grant of Fire approvals and'Renewals there-under.

Ref: (1) Section 3 and Section 10 of Maharasht ra FirePrevention and Life Safety Measures Act, 2006 &D.C. Rules of MIDC.(2) Office Order issued by CEO, MIDC videNo . 1114 of 2009 dated 17/8/2009.(3) Office order issued by Directorate of Fire Servicesvide No. 876/ MFS dated 11th October, 2010.

PRESENT PROCEDURE:With reference to No. (1) above, it is mandatory to provide fire prevention andlife safety measures as per the provisions of Development Control Rules of MIDCand Maharashtra Fire Prevention and Life Safety Measures Act, 2006 (Fire Act).With reference to No. (2) above, CEO, MIDC has delegated powers fo r grantof fire approvals to SPA Engineers working in the field for administrative purposedue to non-availability of required no. of fire officers in the field .With reference to No . (3) above, Directorate of Maharashtra Fire Services hasissued revised requirements for fire protection systems forGroup-G occupancies i.e . industrial occupancies having low, moderate and highhazard classification given in Annex-B of Part 4 of NBC, 2005. As per the provisionsof Section 3 (3) of Fire Act, it is the responsibility of owner and occupier to providefire prevention and protection arrangements to industries through Licensed Agenciesapproved by the Directorate of Maharashtra Fire Services. At present there are 236Licensed Agencies are appOinted by the Directorate and the list is available onDirectorate's website www.mahafireservice .gov.in . As per the provision al fire

approval issued by MIDC, industries carry out installation work through LicensedAgencies and submit Form-A to Fire Deptt. Or SPA for grant of final fire approval. Itis expected that the installing agency or any other licensed agency should ca rry outoperation and maintenance of the system installed in the industries and shou ld issuecertificate to that effect in the Form-B. On the basis of Form-B, renewal of fireapprovals will be issued by Fire Deptt Or SPA as the case may be.At Head Office level, through Industries Association , various micro, small an dmedium entrepreneurs are expressing their difficulties for submission of Form -A forobtaining final fire approval and Form-B in a month of January and July in case of

renewal of fire approval. Considering the above difficulty , the issue was discussedand as per the provisions of Section 10(1), the following orders are issued .

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-2ACTION FOR EAS E OF BUSINESS:

To provide relief to micro, small and medium entrepreneurs having low hazardactivities having proposed total built-up area upto 3000 sq .mtrs. and height less than15 meters at the time of granting provisional fire approval , it is decided to followfollowing pro cedure for simplification of process of granting final fire approval andrenewal of fi re approval.(1) The provisional fire approval which is a prescription/ recommendation offi re prevention and protection arrangements for industries should be issuedconsidering the revised office order issued by Directorate of MaharashtraFire Services for Group-G occupancies i.e. industries. The list of lowhazard industries is made amply clear in Annex-B of Part 4 of NBC,2005.The copy of both is enclosed for ready reference.(2) At the time of granting final fire approval for low-hazard industry, as per theprovisions of section 10(1) , the fire officer attached to local MIDC FireStation should carry out inspection as per the check-list an d ensure the

availability of fire protection systems as per provisional fire approval andrecord the observations in writing reasons of non insisting the approvedlicense agency and issue final fire approval or renewal, as the case maybe.(3) At the time of renewal of the fire approval, in case of low-hazard industryhaving built-up area upto 3000 sq . mtrs. and height less than 15 meters,Form-B from the licensed agencies should not be insisted.The fire officer of local MIDC fire station should carry out inspection as perstandard check list and issue Renewal to industries.(4) This procedure will be made applicable to all low-hazard industries asspecified in Annex-B of Part 4 of NBC, 2005 and the same will beapplicable to all industries situated in MIDC Areas having proposed built-uparea upto 3000 sq. mtrs.(5) The recovery of fire protection fund fe e as per the office order issued byCEO, MIDC vide No. MIDC/Fire/1078 dated 1ih July, 2006 shou ld befollowed. .The above orders should come in force with immediate effect and theguidelines mentioned above shall be followed scrupulously by all SPAs and Fi reOfficers in MIDC.These orders are issued as per the apprOV[ f the CEO, MIDC.

\ /< ",,'7\.....{,,'\'-"( M . v ~ s h m U k h ) Chle Fire 0 er & Fire Advisor,MIDC, umbai-93.Copy submitted to CEO, MIDC for favour of ; o ~ m a t i o n please . Copy fwc's to All Heads of Departments in MIDC, Copy to : All Superintending Engineers, MIDC, All Executive Engineers/SPAs in MIDC, All Divisional Fire Officers in IVIIDC , All Dy . Engineers / SPAs in MIDC, All Fire Officers in MIDC, Guard File / Circular File .

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