**Executive Summary**
This document is a notification from the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, amending the Boiler Attendants' Rules, 2025, under the Boilers Act, 2025. The amendment pertains to the maximum total heating surface area a boiler attendant can oversee. The rules are effective from the date of publication in the Official Gazette, dated January 6, 2026.
**Key Points / Main Content**
* **Amendment Title:** Boiler Attendants' (Amendment) Rules, 2026.
* **Effective Date:** Date of publication in the Official Gazette (January 6, 2026).
* **Amendment Details (Form C, Boiler Attendants' Rules, 2025):**
* The maximum total heating surface area that a boiler attendant can oversee is increased from 150 square meters to 200 square meters.
* Conditions for the increased limit:
* The boilers must be located within a 30-meter radius in the same premises.
* The boilers must belong to one owner.
* The attendant is assisted by the number of fireman deemed necessary by the chief inspector of boilers.
**Impact Analysis**
**Stakeholder: Boiler Attendants**
* **Impact:** Boiler attendants may be responsible for overseeing boilers with a larger total heating surface area (up to 200 square meters under specific conditions).
* **Action Required:** Comply with the updated regulations and associated conditions, ensuring that the boilers are within a 30 meter radius on the same premises owned by one owner, and ensuring the appropriate number of firemen is provided as deemed necessary.
**Stakeholder: Boiler Owners**
* **Impact:** Boiler owners may be able to assign a single attendant to oversee boilers with a larger total heating surface area (up to 200 square meters under specific conditions).
* **Action Required:** Ensure that boilers meet the specified conditions (30-meter radius, same premises, same owner) to qualify for the increased heating surface area limit per attendant and ensuring the appropriate number of firemen is provided as deemed necessary.
**Stakeholder: Chief Inspector of Boilers**
* **Impact:** Responsibility to determine the necessary number of firemen based on the specific situation.
* **Action Required:** Enforce the updated regulations and associated conditions and provide the number of firemen deemed necessary.
Key Entities Referenced
Boilers Act, 2025: The primary legislation being amended.
Boiler Attendants' Rules, 2025: The specific rules being amended by this notification.
Boiler Attendants' (Amendment) Rules, 2026: The new rules amending the 2025 Rules.
Ministry of Commerce and Industry: The issuing ministry.
New Delhi: Location where the notification was issued.
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असाधारण
EXTRAORDINARY
भाग II—खण् ड 3—उप-खण्ड (i)
PART II—Section 3—Sub-section (i)
प्राजधकार स ेप्रकाजित
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
स.ं 09] नई दिल्ली, मगं लवार, िनवरी 6, 2026/पौष 16, 1947
No. 09] NEW DELHI, TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2026/PAUSHA 16, 1947
वाजणज्य और उद्योग मत्रं ालय
(उद्योग सवं धनध और आतं ररक व्यापार जवभाग
)
अजधसचू ना
नई दिल्ली, 6 िनवरी, 2026
सा.का.जन. 09(अ).—केन्द्रीय सरकार, बायलर अजधजनयम 2025 (2025 का 12) की धारा 39 की उप-धारा (2)
के खंड (ङ) और (च) के साथ परित उप-धारा (1) द्वारा प्रित्त िजियों का प्रयोग करत े हुए, बायलर पररचर जनयम, 2025
में संिोधन करन े के जलए जनम्नजलजखत जनयम बनाती ह,ै अथाधत ् :-
1. सजं िप्त नाम और प्रारंभ - (1) इन जनयमों का संजिप्त नाम बायलर पररचर (संिोधन) जनयम, 2026 ह।ै
(2) य ेरािपत्र में उनके प्रकािन की तारीख को प्रवृत होंगे।
2. बायलर पररचर जनयम, 2025 के प्ररूप ग में, "(जिनकी कुल तापन सतह का योग 150 वगध मीटर से अनजधक हो) की
िेखरेख कर सकत े ह,ैं परंत ु उन्द्ह ें बायलर के मुख्य जनरीिक द्वारा आवश्यकतानुसार आवश्यक समझे िाने वाल े फायरमनै की
संख्या प्रिान की िाए।" के स्ट्थान पर
जनम्नजलजखत कोष्ठकों, िब्िों और अंकों को रखा िाएगा, अथाधत:् -
118 GI/2026 (1)2 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY [PART II—SEC. 3(i)]
"(कुल तापन सतह का योग 200 वगध मीटर से अनजधक हो), परंतु ऐसे बायलर एक ही पररसर में तीस मीटर के अधधव्यास
(रेजडयस) म ें जस्ट्थत हों और एक ही स्ट्वामी के हों और यह दक उन्द्ह ें बायलर के मख्ु य जनरीिक द्वारा आवश्यकतानुसार
आवश्यक समझे िान े वाले फायरमैन की संख्या प्रिान की िाए।"
[फा.सं. पी-30015/4/2025-बायलर]
िय प्रकाि जिवहरे, संयुि सजचव
रटप्पण: मलू जनयम, भारत के रािपत्र, असाधारण, भाग 2, खडं 3, उपखडं (i) म ें सा.का.जन. 721(अ), तारीख
29 जसतंबर, 2025 के द्वारा प्रकाजित की गई थी
MINISTRY OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
(Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade)
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 6th January, 2026
G.S.R. 09(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) read with clauses (e) and (f) of sub-
section (2) of section 39 of the Boilers Act, 2025 (12 of 2025), the Central Government hereby makes the following
rules, to amend the Boiler Attendants’ Rules, 2025, namely: -
1. Short title and commencement. – (1) These rules may be called the Boiler Attendants’ (Amendment) Rules,
2026.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the Boiler Attendants’ Rules, 2025, in Form C, for the brackets, words and figures “(not exceeding 150 square
meters in aggregate of total heating surface), provided he is assisted the number of fireman”, the following brackets,
words and figures shall be substituted, namely: -
“(not exceeding 200 square meters in aggregate of total heating surface), provided that such boilers shall be situated
within a radius of thirty meters in the same premises and belong to one owner and further provided that he is assisted
by the number of fireman”
[F. No. P-30015/4/2025-Boiler]
JAI PRAKASH SHIVAHARE, Jt. Secy.
Note: The Principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, section 3, sub-section (i),
vide number G.S.R. 721 (E), dated the 29th September, 2025.
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