CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1 ...... 1 PROJECT SUMMARY ...... 1 CHAPTER 2 ...... 2 INTRODUCTION ...... 2 (I) IDENTIFICATION OF PROJECT AND PROJECT PROPONENT ...... 2 CHAPTER 3 ...... 3 PROJECT DESCRIPTION ...... 3 (I) TYPE OF PROJECT INCLUDING INTERLINKED AND INTERDEPENDENT PROJECTS IF ...... 3 (II) LOCATION (MAP SHOWING GENERAL LOCATION, SPECIFIC LOCATION, AND PROJECT BOUNDARY & PROJECT SITE LAYOUT) WITH COORDINATES ...... 4 (III) MINING ...... 8 (IV) SOURCE OF WATER/ ENERGY AND POWER REQUIREMENT ...... 8 (V) QUANTITY OF WASTES TO BE GENERATED AT SITE AND SCHEMES ADOPTED FOR MANAGEMENT / DISPOSAL...... 9 (VI) SCHEMATIC REPRESENTATION OF THE FEASIBILITY DRAWING FOR EIA PURPOSE ...... 10 CHAPTER 4 ...... 11 SITE ANALYSIS ...... 11 (I) CONNECTIVITY ...... 11 (II) LAND USE PATTERN...... 11 (III) TOPOGRAPHY ...... 12 (IV) EXISTING LAND USE PATTERN ...... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. (V) EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE ...... 12 (VI) SOIL CLASSIFICATION ...... 12 (VII) CLIMATIC DATA FROM SECONDARY SOURCES ...... 12 (VIII) SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE AVAILABLE...... 14
CHAPTER 1
PROJECT SUMMARY
Promoter Shri T. Udayasingh
Location Kharse.No : 155 Village: Periyanagalur, Kallankurichi, Ameenabad & Khairulabad Taluk: Ariyalur District : Ariyalur State: Tamil Nadu. Geographical Lat : 11o 07’5”N to 11o 10’56”N Location Long : 79o 6’26”E to 79o 07’43”N Mean Sea Level 80 meter (MSL)
Extent 194.16.5 Hectares
Production 1.34 MTPA
Source of water Water Tankers and Existing Borewell
Nearest Town Ariyalur (4.42 Km from the project site)
Populated areas Ariyalur (4.42 Km from the project site)
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CHAPTER 2 INTRODUCTION
(i) Identification of project and project proponent
This is a proposed expansion mining over an extent of 194.16.5 Hectares located in Kharse No 155, Periyanagalur, Kallankurichi, Ameenabad &
Khairulabad Village, Ariyalur Taluk, Ariyalur District. Tamil Nadu Cements Corporation Limited (TANCEM), a wholly owned Government of Tamil Nadu undertaking, started business from 1st April 1976. TANCEM has a multi plants, multi locations and multi products company with an annual turnover of around Rs. 250 Crore. The company has its main objective in production of cement and cement based products and primarily caters to the needs of Government departments. TANCEM have two cement units, one at Alangulam and another at Ariyalur. Limestone being the main raw material, the company acquired and reserved enough limestone bearing lands in and around Alangulam and Ariyalur. Ariyalur unit is having four mining leases. Three out of the four mine leases have expired. The proposed ML area bearing the G.O. MS. 456, Dated: 16-05-1985. It spreads in an area of 194.16.5 Hec, in the villages namely Periyanagalur, Kallankurichi, Ameenabad & Khairulabad. The ML area comprises of both Own Patta Lands (149.665 Ha) and Government Lands (44.5 Ha). It is proposed to raise 1.34 MTPA of Limestone during the Plan Period (5 years) from this Lease of G.O.MS. 456. The Mine Lease area is scattered as pieces and forming compact and contiguity along with the adjoining Mining Leases of G.O.MS. 344 & 469. The scheme of mining along with Progressive Mine Closure Plan has been approved by the IBM vide Letter No. TN/ALR/LST/MS-1268 MDS Dated: 11/11/2015. There is no forest land within and around the ML area. Mining operations will be carried out by open cast mining method by working the deposit by systematic formation of benches as per Metalliferous Mines Regulation 1961. The project proponent has to therefore obtain environment clearance as per EIA notification 14 Sept, 2006 and subsequent amendments.
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CHAPTER 3 PROJECT DESCRIPTION
(i) Need for the project TANCEM, a Public Sector Undertaking is having two cement units one at Ariyalur and other one at Alangulam. Ariyalur unit is having four mining leases. Out of the four leases, three leases have expired. TANCEM is in the process of renewing the three expired Mining Leases to meet the Limestone requirement, exclusively for its captive usage. The proposed ML area bearing the G.O.MS. 456, Dated: 16-05-1985, is one among those three Mine Leases. India is the second largest producing country of cement in the world after China. There were 171 large cement plants having an installed capacity of 290.48 million tonnes in 2010-11. India has huge resources of limestone distributed over different parts of the country. As per the Report of the Working Group, Planning Commission of
India, the total limestone requirement during 12th Plan (2012-2017) with growth scenario of cement @ 10%, 11% and 12% for the respective GDP growth of 8%, 9% and 10% is projected at 3,163 million tonnes, 3,253 million tonnes and 3,385 million tonnes, respectively. The Indian cement industry is weakly oligopolistic in nature on a national level with top 11 to 12 firms among more than 100 firms capturing 70% of the cement market. The Cement Industry produces a variety of cement to suit a host of applications matching the world's best in quality. In 2010-11, the total consumption of limestone & other calcareous minerals/ materials, as reported by different industries was 213.12 million tonnes. Cement was the major consuming industry accounting for 94% consumption, followed by iron and steel (4%) and chemical (1%). The remaining consumption was reported by sugar, paper, fertilizer, glass, metallurgy, foundry, etc. As a part of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), the Cement Industry employs around one lakh people and takes care of the social needs not only of the employees but also adopts several villages around the factories providing
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drinking water, electricity, medical and educational facilities. imports: imports of limestone increased to 5.04 million tonnes in 2010-11 from 3.90 million tonnes in the previous year. limestone was imported mainly from uae (47%) and Oman (38%). exports: exports of limestone decreased to 1.04 million tonnes in 2010-11 from 2.41 million tonnes in the previous year. limestone in bulk was exported mainly to neighboring countries, viz, Bangladesh (94%) Bhutan and Nepal besides other countries. (Source: Indian minerals year book - 2011).
(ii) Type of Project including interlinked and interdependent projects if Any The project is mining project. Mining operation is being carried out by fully mechanized opencast method, utilizing HEM. In conjunction with drilling deep hole blasting shall be carried out to create fragmented material. Rock breaker will be used for further blasting. The bench height will be used for blasting. The blasted material will be loaded into 20 tonnes trippers with 1.2 M3 bucket capacity loader/excavator. Based upon the production assumed (1.34 MTPA) the life of the mine would be 28 years.
(iii) Location (map showing general location, specific location, and project boundary & project site layout) with coordinates
Topo Map of the project site is given in the Fig 2.1 Location coordinates are detailed below:
o o Lat : 11 07’5”N to 11 10’56”N
o o Long : 79 6’26”E to 79 07’43”N
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Tamilnadu State Map showing Tiruchirappalli District and The Project Site
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Topo Map of the Project site (10 km Radius)
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Satellite Image of the Project Site
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(iv) Mining
The proposed ML area (G.O.MS. 456) spreads in an area of 194.16.5 Ha, as scattered isolated pits and forming compact and contiguity with the adjoining ML area of G.O.MS. 344 & 469. The entire ML area is falls under non forest land, which include Govt. owned lands & Patta lands owned by the Corporation. The mining will be carried out by opencast mining method in conjunction with conventional and non conventional system of mining. The mine will be exploited from top to bottom in a descending order forming a bench height of 5 m each. The width of the bench will always be maintained higher than the height of the bench. The mine will be fully mechanized and is being operated by deploying drilling, blasting and excavator and tipper combination. Pneumatic wagon dills of 100-115 mm diameter holes will be used in drilling. Slurry explosives and ANFO are used for carrying out deep blasting in mines. No further processing of mined out limestone is required. The blasted material shall be directly loaded and transported to the crusher located in the cement plant. Apart from crusher no other processing of the mineral is involved. Loading will be carried out by 1.5 m3 bucket excavator, and finally the limestone will be transported to plant by 20 tonne capacity tippers / trucks.
(v) Source of Water/ Energy and Power requirement
Water is required for drinking, dust suppression and plantation (around 10 KLD), which will be available through water tankers & from the bore wells in the nearby area.
Power requirement is minimal, which is required from illumination in mines office and rest shelter only.
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(vi) Quantity of Wastes to be generated at site and schemes adopted for management / disposal.
Wastewater Generation
Domestic sewage generated from toilets can be disposed through septic tank followed by soak pits.
Solid waste Generation
The only solid waste generated during the mining operation is topsoil only. The Topsoil removed during the year 2000-01 to 2010-11 is around 0.112 MT. There will be no handling of Topsoil & overburden during the scheme period & it will temporarily stack along the mining lease boundary and consumed parallel for the afforestation purposes.
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(vii) Schematic representation of the Feasibility Drawing for EIA purpose
The Environment (Protection) Act 1986 & Environmental (Protection) Rule 1986
Air (Prevention Water (Prevention Water CPCB Public & Control of & Control of (Prevention & notification S-O- Liability Pollution) Act Pollution) Act Control of 384 (E) dated Insurance 1981 as 1974 and amended Pollution) Cess April 11, 1994 on Act 1991. amended in in 1978, 1988 Act 1977, as National 1987 amended in Ambient Air 1991 Quality
EIA Notification S.O.1533 dated 14th September 2006 and revised notification S.O.3067 (E), dated 1st December 2009.
EIA R eport
Getting Env ironmental Clearan ce from SEIAA / MoEF
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CHAPTER 4 SITE ANALYSIS
(i) Connectivity
Railways
The nearest major railway station is Ariyalur which is 4.46 kms away in west direction.
Roads
The site is connected by the SH – 139 (0.32 km away in west direction).
Airways
The nearest airport is at Trichy around 61.85 Kms away from the project site
Communication
Already this area is well connected with the district head quarters Ariyalur and nearby town Ariyalur. So there will not be any constraints for communications like telephone, telefax, telex etc.
(ii) Land Use Pattern
The area is situated on 194.16.5 Hectare revenue land. This is an existing mine. The area is irregular in shape and elongated along north-south direction. Area is totally waste land (194.16.5 hec). Total Mine Lease area is 194.16.5 Hec, comprises of both Own Patta Lands (149.665 Hec) and Government Lands (44.5 Hec). There are no forests, national park, wild life sanctuary, eco sensitive areas, and water bodies in the near vicinity of the ML area / study area. Land use pattern of Lease area are as follows:
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Land Use Pattern S.No Details Area (Hec) 1 Area Under Mining 66.1 2 Storage of Top soil 0.25 3 Infrastructure 1.5 4 Road 10.0 5 Green Belt 51.00 6 Others to Specify-applied lease area dry lands - garage 0.0 Grand Total 129.85
(iii) Topography
The area exhibits vast flat topography and the average elevation of the area is about 80 meter from Mean Sea Level (MSL). The detailed Topo Map for 10 Km radius is in Fig 3.1
(iv) Existing Infrastructure
Since this is existing mine, all the basic infrastructure facilities are available like Mine office, Roads, First-Aid room, Canteen, Power line for mine, Telephone line for mine etc.
(v) Soil Classification
Top soil is available in patches within ML area which can be directly used for plantation purpose.
(vi) Climatic data from Secondary sources
April is the hottest month with maximum temperature of 38.90C. January is the coolest month with minimum temperature of 20.040C. Rainfall is due to north-east monsoon. It is poor to moderate, being around 750 mm annually. Rain is due to the southwest monsoon during July, August and due to North- east monsoon during November, December. The area is not affected by cyclonic storms. 12 | P a g e
Meteorological Data Station: Tiruchirappalli Period : 2009- 2013
Duration Jan Feb Mar Apr May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec
I. MONTHLY MEAN WIND SPEED (KMPH) 2009 7 6 6 7 10 12 15 11 11 8 6 7 2010 7 7 7 8 5 * * * * * * 6 2011 7 8 8 7 10 13 14 11 9 6 5 6 2012 6 7 7 7 10 13 14 11 9 7 6 8 2013 9 9 8 9 11 16 16 12 9 8 6 7 II. MONTHLY MEAN RH, 0830 HRS IST (%)
2009 83 80 77 73 69 69 70 68 71 72 88 87 2010 85 82 78 70 72 69 73 69 74 77 89 85 2011 82 78 72 71 63 62 63 70 71 83 84 82 2012 84 76 71 67 63 60 63 65 65 80 78 77 2013 79 76 74 63 59 57 56 66 71 75 83 80 III. MONTHLY MEAN RH, 1730 HRS IST (%)
2009 51 34 36 42 43 48 54 45 50 51 79 74 2010 58 42 35 43 46 49 52 49 58 62 81 78 2011 57 46 34 48 39 46 45 56 63 70 75 67 2012 55 41 37 41 43 43 40 49 49 72 59 58 2013 48 45 46 37 39 41 39 46 54 58 69 65 IV. MONTHLY TOTAL RAINFALL (mm)
2009 11.1 0.0 5.5 23.4 18.9 18.1 0.2 63.4 84.5 24.6 355.1 95.4 2010 12.1 0.0 0.0 1.6 94.0 64.8 23.9 36.8 106.8 107.0 336.0 155.4 2011 1.4 5.3 0.0 39.2 13.0 49.6 72.0 112.9 182.7 236.9 232.0 30.2 2012 10.4 TR 1.8 24.9 114 112.8 37.1 132.1 46.8 186.6 73.4 7.9 2013 0.3 6.6 15.5 5.2 49.5 4.0 0.0 82.1 136.1 127.9 177.0 34.0 V. MONTHLY MEAN MAX. TEMP. (0C)
2009 30.5 33.3 35.5 37.3 38.7 30.5 38.4 37.1 36.4 36.1 35.1 30.4 2010 30.4 32.6 36.4 38.9 38.1 36.9 35.6 35.8 34.6 34.1 30.3 29.0 2011 30.7 33.1 36.4 37.8 39.4 37.6 37.2 36.0 35.6 33.1 30.2 30.0 2012 31.2 33.6 37.3 38.4 38.5 37.9 37.1 36.4 36.7 32.7 32.4 31.9 2013 32.7 33.9 36.5 40.2 40.7 37.0 36.9 36.5 35.1 35.0 31.0 29.7 VI. MONTHLY MEAN MIN. TEMP. (0C)
2009 26.1 20.6 23.4 26.1 27.1 26.9 26.9 26.3 26.0 25.2 23.6 22.2 2010 21.2 21.8 23.9 27.3 27.0 26.4 26.1 26.0 25.1 24.7 23.5 21.7 2011 20.7 21.2 22.7 25.3 26.6 26.9 26.6 25.6 24.9 24.1 22.7 21.4 2012 20.3 21.5 24.0 26.3 26.9 26.6 26.4 25.6 25.4 24.2 22.9 22.4 2013 21.0 22.2 23.9 27.0 27.9 27.3 27.1 25.7 24.7 24.6 23.0 20.8
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(vii) Social infrastructure available
District Ariyalur, which is about 2.86 Km towards WSW from the ML boundary. All the social infra structural facilities like schools, schools, colleges & etc. are available in Ariyalur.
Total population of the 45 villages within 10 km radius from the project site is 173634. The detail of population is given in the below Table 4.1.
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Table 4.1 Population Status (As per 2011 Census) Agriculture No. of Literates Cultivators S.No Name of the Villages House Male Female Total Labours Holds Male Female Male Female Male Female
1. Anandavadi 1087 2154 2108 4262 1437 1024 441 271 372 276
2. Pottaveli 1048 2171 2090 4261 1524 1026 351 294 419 349
3. Rayampuram 947 1872 1846 3718 1229 866 412 266 138 122
4. Sennivanam 474 938 938 1870 711 546 177 48 93 243
5. Illluppaiyur 983 2158 1984 4142 1505 928 566 267 355 176
6. Ottakoil 1210 2359 2344 4703 1640 1108 393 311 355 186
7. Govindapuram 1242 2502 2494 4996 1871 1389 380 220 452 391
8. Kallankurichi 1380 2722 2663 5385 1957 1435 396 253 264 236
9. Kadugur 866 1627 1590 3217 1172 721 557 305 201 369
10. Ayanathur 654 1263 1182 2445 915 569 528 302 125 132
11. Kavanur 841 1634 1608 3242 1092 698 568 512 140 159
12. Vilangudi 683 1323 1312 2635 860 666 139 119 329 287
13. Thelur 1094 2136 2079 4215 1423 984 461 275 297 289
14. Periyanagalur 1041 1776 1762 3538 1175 800 452 304 123 208
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15. Ammenabath 170 339 315 654 218 131 31 1 0 0
16. Kayarlabath 1349 2613 2602 5215 2128 1809 219 19 244 107
17. Ariyalur (North) 1017 2104 2043 4147 1567 1338 271 19 118 63
18. Valajanagaram 1945 3702 3653 7355 2873 2205 334 194 237 238
19. Varanavasi 1091 2140 1947 4087 1359 1162 194 93 553 457
20. Mallur 734 1500 1456 2956 979 683 515 314 224 199
21. Siruvalur 594 1112 1043 2155 743 518 254 186 120 153
22. Pudupalayam 922 1785 1750 3535 1187 822 92 51 153 108
23. Reddipalayam 1125 2095 2031 4126 1432 1025 267 95 219 350
24. Nagamangalam 868 1716 1644 3360 1143 735 412 331 366 204
25. Periyathirukonam 718 1388 1320 2708 963 676 455 444 27 59
26. Edayathankudi 604 1135 1056 2191 778 483 364 292 167 252
27. Karuppur 1239 2388 2385 4773 1516 1164 548 305 706 631
28. Keezhapalur 1484 2671 2746 5417 2027 1785 115 21 134 17
29. Papanacheri 400 756 736 1492 592 444 214 125 164 199
30. Karuppilakattalai 1038 2082 2043 4125 1297 927 608 410 347 339
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