Exemption from Excise Duty extended to specified agro, textile, ICT and tourism industries while detailing explicit exclusions. The notification amends an earlier central excise notification by substituting the Schedule and Annexure to set out categories of goods and activities eligible for Exemption from Excise Duty-including floriculture, medicinal herbs processing, honey, broad horticulture and food processing activities, silk, wool, textiles, ICT hardware, pharmaceuticals, bottling of mineral water, eco tourism and handicrafts-while the Annexure expressly excludes specified goods and activities such as tobacco products, thermal power plants, coal washeries, certain inorganic and organic chemicals, explosives, fertilizers, specified paper products, plastics, and industries covered by a Doon Valley environmental notification.