M/s.Edayan Rocks- District. PROPOSAL FOR PRIOR ENVIRONMENTAL CLEARANCE

I Check list for Mining Projects

II Form- 1 III Questionnaire for mining Projects IV Pre – Feasibility Report. V Environment Management Plan

PROPOSED by : M/s.Edayan Rocks , Malampara, Kulathoor(P.o), Kottangal, , -689 588 . PROJECT SITE : KOTTANGAL VILLAGE, , PATHANAMTHITTA DISTRICT. Area : 1.00.00 Hectares

Sy.No : 63/1-1 (Part), 63/1-2 (Part), 63/1 (Part). Project Cost : Rs. 75 lakhs Production capacity: 24,000TPA. APPLICANT: M/s.EDAYAN ROCKS, MALAMPARA, T. MATHEW ABRAHAM, (Managing Partner), KULATHOOR (P.O), KOTTANGAL, PATHANAMTHITTA DISTRICT, KERALA. Email: [email protected] No: 09446754468

PREPARED BY: M/s.Edayan Rocks. June – 2016.

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M/s.Edayan Rocks- Pathanamthitta District.

APPENDIX - IV PRE FEASIBILITY REPORT

Sl No Subject Title Description 1.0 INTRODUCTION The granite building stone open cast quarry is being proposed by M/s.Edayan Rocks, in Kottangal village, Mallappally taluk, Pathanamthitta district under quarry leases . ( Annexure : 2b)

The land possession certificate issued by Village officer enclosed. (Annexure -1)

Shri .T.Mathew Abraham, Managing Partner , M/s.Edayan Rocks, Malampara, Kulathoor(P.o), Kottangal, Pathanamthitta district, Kerala -689 588 Phone No :09446754468 Email:[email protected].

Submitted application with the required documents for Prior Environmental clearance.

The proposed rate of production of jelly stone would be 24,000 tonnes per annum.

The Project cost would be about RS 75 lakhs

The life of the quarry is estimated to be 10 Years based on the present rate of production.

Gentle slope towards North east

Average Length of the deposit : 75mtr Average Width of the deposit :130mtr Average Depth of the deposit :20 mtr

1.1 Location of the Project The project is located in Kottangal village in an area of 1.00.00 Hectares in Sy. No: 63/1-1(Part), 63/1-2(Part) & 63/1 (Part)

The geographical location of the site is as follows : 34

M/s.Edayan Rocks- Pathanamthitta District. Boundary Latitude longitude Pillars North east : Lat : 09°27’18.3”, Long : 76 °43’36.5”

North west: Lat : 09°27’16.2”, Long : 76 °43’34.3”

South east : Lat : 09°27’14.5”, Long : 76 °43’38.8” South west Lat : 09°27’13.3”, Long : 76 °43’37.3”

Revenue officer attested village Topo showing the area applied for quarry lease is enclosed .

Site Photographs with digital date is enclosed.

The Google image is enclosed.

Sl.No Subject Title Description PROJECT DESCRIPTION 1.1 Project Proponent Shri .T.Mathew Abraham Managing Partner, information is having his Registered office at Kottangal Village . The company will engage qualified personnel and all the statutory Mines Safety personnel to do quarry operations.

Shri .T.Mathew Abraham,Managing Partner , M/s.Edayan Rocks, Malampara, Kulathoor(P.o), Kottangal, Pathanamthitta district, Kerala -689 588 Phone No :09446754468 Email:[email protected].

1.2 Need for the Project and The main quality requirement for building stone is its its importance to the hardness, compressive strength, dimensional, and the country or region charnockite rocks having all the quality is occurring in this site. The project site is situated in the, interior, hilly terrain ..

The proposed quarry and crusher operations can give employment to about 15 direct and indirectly to about 100 persons.

The proposed quarry project will full fill the end users need

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M/s.Edayan Rocks- Pathanamthitta District. for building construction, bridges, paving and other local project.

The village people’s lifestyle, conditions of living, educational and health status etc will be considerable improved.

For local peoples, provides to do material transport lorry services.

As for the importance relating the project to the national area, in can be stated the granite aggregate production from the quarry contributes in its own role towards betterment of infrastructural facilities like road improvement, construction activities, etc nearby areas as well as in area outside of the state. For infrastructural improvement needs, Government of India have planned for a massive outlay during 15th 5 year plan and this project plays its own minor role towards this objects.

Besides that the state in larges measures is benefited by financial receipts on account of royalties, cess, etc while Central govt also derives benefits due collection of Income Tax.

1.3 END USE (domestic The quarry rough stone product will be supplied to local /export) market for domestic use only 2.1 Project description & The project granite building stone quarry is located in Salient features Kottangal village in an area 4.92.11Hectares in Sy.No: 63/1-1(Part), 63/1-2(Part) & 63/1 (Part)

The project site falls in Survey of India

Topo sheet: 58/C 11

The latitude and longitude are shown in the lease plan. Description Names Project site Kottangal Taluk Mallappally District Pathanamthitta Nearest hospital Kottangal – 2km Fire station Mallappally – 15.0 km Police station – 4.0 km Educational facility -6km Church , temple Kottangal -2.0 km Electrical line HT/LT LT line 36

M/s.Edayan Rocks- Pathanamthitta District. Mobile tower Mallappally – 15.0 km Defense installation, Nil /archeological important areas, Ecological sensitive Zone III zone Forest 15.0 km(Rani Reserve Forest) Stream/river/water – 1.20 km bodies ( from mine boundary ) Seismic zone Zone III. Moderate damage risk zone as per BMTPC , vulnerability Atlas, Seismic zone of India IS : 1893 – 2002. Quarry production per 24000 tonnes annum Geological /Mineable Geological: 520020Tonns qty Mineable : 240300 Tonns.

Life of mine as per the 10 Years assessment

The physiography of the lease area and its surrounding is a part of elevated and undulated terrain with trees, bushes and shrubs. The topography of the lease area is hilly, the highest 2.2 Physiography/drainage elevation of the lease area MSL 120m and the lowest level pattern 105.0m (ultimate bottom MSL) .Rain water flow is through the natural minor water courses towards north east joining with seasonal nallah.

2.3 Lease hold area-land use The proposed rough stone quarry is about 1.00.00Hectares patterns and it is Patta land. In the lease area there is no stream/nallah and no electrical transmission line. Land use breakup of the lease is given below:

Sl No Particulars Extent Hectares 1 Quarry pit area 0 2 Green belt 0 Stripping limit 7.5 safety zone 3 Road, site office, parking place ect 0 4 Future exploitation / undisturbed 1.00.00 Total 1.00.00 The surface lay out is shown in Plate : 02. 3.0 GEOLOGY 3.1 Regional Geology & The Kottangal region formation is in the Archaean gneiss –

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M/s.Edayan Rocks- Pathanamthitta District. Local geology. granolithic terrain constitutes one of the oldest rocks. The hilly terrain consists of charnockite rocks, granitic gneiss with local migmatization .Charnockite is occurring in NE- SW strike direction with dipping SE .

Geology : The lease area is situated in granite terrain occurring in high hill ranges. Entire lease area is exposed by charnockite rock. The rock type in the area is mainly quartz- biotite-gneiss. The feldspar is seen occurring in the porphyritic structure. The charnockite rocks are igneous in origin and the massive rocks are in the deep seated nature and also exposed in the elevated hills.

General strike : The charnockite rocks are occurring in a massive from in the entire regional areas with a general strike of NW/SE . The surface geological plan of the lease area is shown in Plate No : 03 3.2 Geological reserve ./ In this area, the building stone exposures are spreading up mineable reserve to the lease boundary. It is planned to leave 7.5 m in compliance Mineral concession rules. The mineable reserve is estimated after detecting the reserves blocked in bench safety slopes. The quantity of mineable reserve is as follows : Sl.No Particulars Volume Quantity – M3 tones 1. Top soil 7,450 16,390 3. Over burden 9,100 20,020 4. Geological Reserve 1,92,600 2,79,720 5. Mineable reserve 89,000 2,40,300

6. Proposed annual 8889 24,000 quantity 7. Anticipated Life of the 10 Years 10Years mine

3.3 Details of mining In this area , the granite rocks exposed to surface level it is massive and hard , suitable for building stone and is having local market demand , therefore the applicant have proposed to open an quarry and supply the jelley stone to the local market. The quarry operation will be open cast semi- mechanized. 3.4 Year wise production Year wise Production Waste details Ist year 2015-16 24000 12136 2nd year2016-17 24000 12136 3rd year 2017-18 24000 12136 4thyear2018-19 24000 Nil 5th year 2019-2020 24000 Nil TOTAL 1,20,000 36,410

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M/s.Edayan Rocks- Pathanamthitta District. 4.0 Method of mining The mining will be done open cast semi-mechanized method. The bench height and width will be maintained at 5 m and 6 m respectively. Excavated material is transported to the crusher located within 250 m on the eastern side of mining pit.

4.1 Extent of machinery The production of granitic stone will be done by front end loader and tipper.

4.2 Drilling Drilling will be carried out with hydraulic /pneumatic drills and compressors for production. Besides, Jack hammer and compressor will be used for secondary blasting and also some times in the production faces. About 50 holes per day of 32 mm to a depth of 1 to 1.5 m will be adopted for drilling. 4.3 Blasting Controlled blasting is proposed by adopting the safety measures stipulated as per MMR-1961 and in accordance with the permission of DGMS. Drilling will be done with the help of Jackhammers by using compressed air. The average depth of the hole will be 1.6m and the diameter will be 33mm. About 250 to 300 gm of explosives will be charged per hole along with ordinary detonators and Blue sump fuse and then ignited with cotton rope pieces. 4.3A Conceptual mining In the applied area, building stone is existing throughout the area in depth .The geological reserve for the proposed quarry operation , is estimated as 520020 tones . After deducting the quantity blocked in the mine safety benches, the mineable reserve is arrived as 240300 tones. The annual production is proposed as 24000 tones and the life of the quarry is estimated to be 10 years.

The land use at the conceptual stage is as follows:

At the conceptual post mining stage

stage

Land Use Extent Land Use Extent

in hec in hec

Area Plantation will be

degraded made in the mine

of the pit benches by laying 1m

waste and top soil

0.70.00 (0.47.00 hec)

Water harvesting will

be made in the bottom 0.70.00

level of mining pit

(0.23.00hec) 39

M/s.Edayan Rocks- Pathanamthitta District. Green belt Will be maintained as lease 0.25.92 Green belt 0.25.92 boundary Dumping On the dumping 0.03.00 0.03.00 area Slopes plantation Rain water Rain water harvesting harvesting 0.01.08 pond 0.01.08 pond Total 1.00.00 Total 1.00.00 Conceptual face position and post land pattern is shown in Plate No : 05 4.4 Mineral transportation Loading of jelly will be done by excavator and will be send to the crushing unit at 250 mtrs. Truck / Tippers of 20 tons will be used transportation of rock jelly from mine site. It is expected that 8 trips will be required to transport on daily basics For this movement of truck will be 2 only. 5.0 Employment potential Following staffs and workers are proposed to be employed Sl No Particulars Numbers Of employees 1. Mine manager 1 2. Mine mate 1 3. Driller 1 4. Operator 3 5. Blasting Helper 2 6. Machine Helper 2 7. Tipper Helper 1 8. Tipper Driver 2 9. Magazine In charge 1 10. Blaster 1 Total 15

6.0 Water requirement & The water requirement is 5 KLD as follows sources Domestic purposes - 0.1 Dust suppression - 0.2 Green belt - 0.2 Total - 5.0 KLD The rain water collected in the mining pit will be used for dust suppression and plantation . 7.0 Power The power requirement will be drawn from KSEB. A stand by generator of 630 KV has been provided .

8.0 Mine closure Plan Various works that are to be taken up under the mine closure plan includes (i) Re vegetation It is proposed to develop greenbelt to an extent of more than 25% which includes areas like all along the mine 40

M/s.Edayan Rocks- Pathanamthitta District. boundary (7.5 m width), all along the periphery and other places surrounding lease areas. (ii) Water Resource Management Prior to the commissioning of the project area, the water runoff used to flow naturally and used to join the nearby channel drainage nallah / streams. The quarry operation will not be causing any alteration to the drainage pattern of the area. The rain water collected in the mine pit will be used for plantation. Also ground water recharge ponds have be made to aid percolation and replenation of ground water . 9.0 Cost towards To monitor EMP parameters an amount of Rs 1 lakh will be spent annually Environmental management 10.0 Conclusion It is predicted on the socio-economic, the impact due to this project will positively increase more employment opportunities for local inhabitants both directly and indirectly.

There are no resettlement and re habilitation issue involved in this project

The project infrastructure will be of use to people of the area

The revenue of the state government will be definitely increasing due to the proposed activity.

The entire project area is devoid of any endangered flora and fauna. Thus the proposed project is not likely to impact the environment or adjacent eco system adversely. In view of tangible benefits on all fronts, as mentioned above, the Project may kindly be approved for issuing of Environmental Clearances so as enabling us to operate the quarry.

Sr. Geologist / RQP Shri .T.MATHEW ABRAHAM (Managing Partner) M/s.Edayan Rocks, Kottangal village, Mallappally Taluk, Pathanamthitta District. 41