BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF Ganganapur -(B) STONE QUARRY:

Auction holder Sri Bidyut Kumar Pathy, S/o- Nadia Pathy, of GANGANAPUR- B stone Quarry is a private individual firm having its office At- Bainchbania, Po- , via- Hinjilicut, Dist. – of state. The GANGANAPUR- B stone Quarry was initially executed earlier by so many auction holder these are the sairat sources coming under revenue department to perform the auction procedure and to award the highest bidder to execute the quarry. sri Bidyut Kumar Pathy of Ganganapur- B stone Quarry having area of 29.450 acres (11.918 Ha.), Kisam – Parbata with khata No – 810, Plot No – 2159 & 3047 for a period of 5 year.

As per MOEF notification dated 24th December 2013, the provision of mineral conservation and development rules 1988 mining plan has been repaired by RQP sri Susanta Kumar Mishra, RQP/OD/028/2015/. The method of mining indicated in the mining plan is semi-mechanized open cast working with bench wise development. There is no any forest land within the vicinity of workings. The total mineable reserve of stone estimated is 17, 61, 270 Cum , it has been planned to produced 2160 cum in first year by open cast semi-mechanized mining along strike direction and both in east & west direction as per MOEF this project is coming under B2 category where both pre-feasibility report and approve mining plan is required for miner mineral environmental clearance of GANGANAPUR- B stone Quarry.

For GANGANAPUR- B stone Quarry, sri Bidyut Kumar Pathy is situated in Vill - GANGANAPUR- B, Po- Hinjilicut, via- Hinjilicut, ps- , Tahasil- Puroshottampur, Dist. - Ganjam of Odisha state. The area is featured in the Survey Of Topo Sheet No. E45-A-14(74A/14), Latitude: N19° 30’ 40.51” to N19° 30’ 52.31”, Longitude: E 84° 47’ 37.99” to E 84° 47’ 56.5”. The mining lease of GANGANAPUR- B stone Quarry mine was granted as auction holder to Sri Bidyut Kumar Pathy for a period of Five year. The auction awarded paper (quarry lease) is attached.

The GANGANAPUR- B stone Quarry is a mine for exploitation of stone boulders. The production is proposed 10800 cum during the lease period. The expansion of the quarry project under reference has got its importance because it is mainly used in civil work like major projects and infrastructure development so to meet the market potential and cost to cost basis semi- mechanized method of mining is feasible.

The major use of boulder stone of Ganganapur- B stone Quarry for stone crushers situated in . Those stone crushers are the major suppliers to the nearby road and building construction and other local developments like Panchayat and Irrigation project etc. So the development of Ganjam district and nearby districts also depends upon Ganganapur- (B) stone Quarry. This has necessitated the enhancement in production of raw materials to cater the demand and also these value added product will fetch more royalty and revenue to the state as well as to the country as a whole.