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PRE- FEASIBILITY REPORT OF KAMALPUR FIRE BRICK CLAY DEPOSIT OF M/s K.S.D. BRICKS, PROP.-SHRI KHURSID ALI, AREA – 2.47 ACRES, PLOT NO –211(P), KHATA NO.– 46, IN VILLAGE – KAMALPUR, DISTRICT – SARAIKELA-KHARSAWAN,JHARKHAND.

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1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

Spread over an area of 2.47 Acres (0.999 ha.), the proposed project is to extract Brick Clay (Earth) for Fire Bricks by M/s K.S.D. Bricks at Plot No –211 (P), Khata No. – 46, Mauza- Kamalpur, P.S. - Saraikela, Distt. - Saraikela-Kharsawan, Jharkhand. The essential information about the project is summarized below in Table 1.

Table 1: Basic Information

Sl. Item Details No 1. Name of the Applicant M/s K.S.D. Bricks

Proposed Mining Lease Area Area :- 2.47 acres or 0.999 Ha 2. (As per Agreement Deed) 3. Land Use Undeveloped Gora Land

4. Land Ownership Private Ownership

5. Lease period 5 years

6. River Sona River (250 m approx.)

Name of protected areas, None as notified under the Wildlife (Protection) 7. Wildlife Sanctuary, Eco Act, 1972

sensitive area

0 0 8. Site Co-ordinates Latitude: Between 22 46’ 22.15’’N to 22 46’ 25.05’’N. Longitude: Between 850 56’15.42’’E to 850 56’ 22.40’’E.

Khata No. 46, Plot No. Plot no –211 (P), M/s 9. Location K.S.D. Bricks, Mouza: Kamalpur, P.S.: Saraikela, District: Saraikela -Kharsawan, Jharkhand.

10. Toposheet No. 73 F/13 (F45H13). 11. Topography Flat land

12. Minerals of mine Brick Clay

To cast granted Six lakh bricks / season, Only Brick Clay will be extracted 1740.00 cum/season (Six 13. Proposed production of mine months)

14. Method of mining Manual. 15. Drilling/Blasting No drilling and blasting is proposed.

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16. Estimated cost Approx. 8.00 lakhs

17. Water Demand 22.41 KLD (0.91KLD Domestic purpose + 20KLD Brick Casting + 1.5 KLD Dust Suppression) 18. Sources of water Drinking water supply will be met by nearby Dug well/ bore wells or private tankers.

19. Ultimate depth of Mining 2 m

20. Man power Not More than 25 Labours & 1 supervisor) and local labours from nearby villages will be hired.

21. Solid Waste No generation of solid waste is anticipated due to proposed project activity 22. Nearest railway station Sini railway station (2 Km) (Northern side) 23. Nearest state highway Adityapur-Chaibasa Road (SH-5): 3 Km (SE side). 24. Nearest Airport Jamshedpur, Sonari Airport – 25 Km 25. Nearest city Jamshedpur– 25 Km

*approximate aerial distances

The mine is a fresh lease, thus Application in Form1M along with Project Pre Feasibility Report is being filed to DEIAA, Saraiklela for grant of Environment Clearance of Kamalpur Fire Brick Clay Deposit of M/s K.S.D. Bricks over an area of Area: - 2.47 acres or 0.999 Ha. for the production of 1740.00 cum/season (Six months).

2. INTRODUCTION

2.1 Identification of Project and Project Proponent

Name of the Project: Proposed Kamalpur Fire Brick clay mining of M/s K.S.D. Bricks.

Location: Plot No –211 (P), Khata No. – 46; Village- Kamalpur, P.S- Saraikela, Distt. – Saraikela-Kharsawan, Jharkhand.

Appied Mining lease Area: Area: - 2.47 acres or 0.999 Ha

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Name and address of project proponent: Details of the proponent is given here under:

Prop.-Shri Khurshid Ali At-Kamalpur, P.O- Sini, P.S-Saraikela, DIST. - Saraikela Kharsawan, Jharkhand

2.2 Brief description of the nature of the project:

The proposed project is to mine brick clay from above mentioned plots sustainably and scientifically. Mining will be opencast and manual as per mining rules keeping all the nearby plots unaffected. Following geo-scientific methods are proposed to carry out the activity:

► Mining will be confined to extraction of Brick Clay in its existing form, from their applied Plots only.

► Mining of Brick Clay from their applied plot (s) will be restricted to a maximum depth of 2 m from the surface.

► No drilling and blasting is proposed.

► Approximately 1740.00 cum/season (Six months) minor mineral - clay will be extracted.

► No mining activity will be undertaken during the monsoon season.

► In order to avoid environmental pollution or any accidental hazards, the mining activity will be restricted to daytime only.

► The operation will remain manual, using tools like shovel, spade, sieve etc.

2.3 Need for the project and its importance to the country and region: The demand for bricks is derived from building construction in general and wall construction in particular. Bricks are used in constructing residential, commercial and institutional buildings Bricks are used in almost every type of construction activity in both rural and urban areas. Despite the significantly increased construction activities in the country. There is a constant need for ensuing regular supply of these inputs. The production of Brick Clay will benefit to the state in the form of royalty. Apart from this project operation will provide employment directly and indirectly to the people residing in vicinity, thus improving the socioeconomic status of the area. 3

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2.4 Demands-Supply Gap

Brick Clay has become a very important mineral for the manufacturing of Bricks which contributes to the expansion of infrastructure in the society. With the increase of urbanization the demand for Bricks is growing in infrastructure sector in our country. Individual and private companies are increasingly demanding Brick for construction purposes and this has immense pressure on brick clay resources. Further, there are not many large scale Soil deposits in the districts, and thus the focus is to systematically develop known small and medium size deposits. This clearly shows the gap between the demand and supply of basic raw materials. To minimize this gap Applicant has initiated a step to produce these minerals.

2.5 Domestic/ Export Markets:

Due to the increased industrial and infrastructural growth of the rural and urban areas demand of Brick is very high. Construction companies and local vendors in the nearby town and cities are the potential market for the brick made up of brick clay.

2.6 Employment Generation: The proposed project will generate direct /indirect employment to the people of all class of society. During the operational phase not more than 01 semi-skilled and 25 non-skilled workers will be hired. The contractors will get the direct or indirect benefit from the project activity.

3.0 PROJECT DESCRIPTION

3.1 Type of project including interlinked and interdependent projects, if any

This is an independent new mining project. The proposed project is for the extraction of Brick Clay from the allotted plot as manually.

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3.2 Location (map showing general location and project site) with coordinates.

The mining applied area is located on Topo Sheet: - 73 F/13 (F45H13). The applied area is bounded by Plot no.–211 (P) & Khata no.-46, Mauza- Kamalpur, Circle - Saraikela, Dist. - Saraikela- Kharsawan, Jharkhand. The Proposed project activity will be carried out in the applied Plots. Topography Map of 5 Km radius is enclosed. Plate-1.

3.3 Details of alternate sites considered. No, alternative sites considered.

3.4 Size or magnitude of operation: The proposed mine has lease agreement over an area of 2.47 acres or 0.999 Ha. Approximately 1740.00 cum/season (Six months) minor mineral will be extracted. As per EIA notification 2006, it is a “Category B” mines.

3.5 Project description with process details:

The proposed project is to mine Brick Clay from plot(s) under agreement, sustainably and scientifically. Mining will be opencast and manual along the plot(s) keeping the nearby plot(s) unaffected. Following geo-scientific methods are proposed to carry out the activity:

● Mining will be confined to extraction of Brick Clay (Earth) in its existing form, from their applied plots only – without involving any blasting.

● Mining of Brick Clay from their applied plot (s) will be restricted to a maximum depth of 2 m from the surface at any location in the area.

● There will be no intersection or stream crossing in the applied lease area. Thus no alteration of natural drainage pattern of the area is envisaged.

● The Borrowed/Excavated area will be restored properly by leveling and handed over to owner for future use.

● During the course of mining a berm of width 1 m will be constructed all along the periphery along with fencing to avoid any mishap and restricting flow of mineral rich water from nearby land.

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● Mining will not be done during the monsoon season. Regular health check-up will be done of the workers and safeguards like sprinkling of medicines/vaccination etc. against disease vectors will be undertaken.

● Workers will be provided with drinking water and sanitation.

● No drilling and blasting is proposed. Approximately 1740.00 cum/season (Six months) Minor mineral will be extracted.

● The earth dug out will used in the Brick Kiln. Maximum rated capacity of Brick Kiln would be six lakh per season (six month).

● In order to avoid environmental pollution or any accidental hazards, the mining activity will be restricted to daytime only.

● The operation will remain manual, using tools like shovel, spade, sieve etc.

3.6 Raw Material Required Along With Estimated Quantity, Likely Source, Marketing Area of Final Product(s), Mode of Transport of Raw Material and Finished Product

This is mining project the operation involves extraction of Brick Clay in its existing form. So raw material is not required. Here, the mined clay (earth) will be used as raw material for bricks manufacturing. These bricks manufactured from the earth excavated are the raw material for construction activities. Raw bricks will be cast and transported to the kiln site by carts/tractor trolleys through village chalk roads.

3.7 Availability of water its source, energy/ power requirement and source:

► There will be very little requirement of water to carry out operations as it will be done manually. The water will be required either for drinking purposes or for casting of bricks.

► It is projected that not more than 25 labours and 1 Supervisor will be required for the proposed project. The total water requirement will be 22.41 KLD. Drinking water requirement for not more than 25 workers and 1 Supervisor would be 0.91KLD (@ 35ltr/person), which will be met by nearby existing bore wells. The water required for casting of bricks will be 20 KLD and 1.5 KLD for sprinkling will be taken from hired tankers.

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► All the activities will be carried out manually. The operation will be done in day time; hence there is no power requirement for the project at site.

3.8 Quantity of wastes to be generated (liquid and solid) and scheme for their management / disposal.

The entire mineral extracted is saleable / useable. The labourers from nearby villages will be hired to carry out work in day time only; hence there will be negligible waste generation, if any. No liquid effluents will be generated at site.

4. SITE ANALYSIS

4.1 General

The applied lease area is a fresh lease applied by M/s K.S.D.Bricks and is situated in Mouza- Kamalpur in the district of Saraikela Kharsawan, of Jharkhand state. The area is featured in the Survey of India Topo sheet No. 73 F/13 (F45H13) and limited within the Co ordinates:

Latitude Longitude Between 220 46’ 22.15’’N to 220 46’ 25.05’’N. Between 85 0 56’15.42’’E to 850 56’ 22.40’’E.

4.2 Connectivity

4.2.1 Nearest Railway Station

Nearest railway station is Sini railway station which is about 2 Km NE side from the applied area.

4.2.2 Nearest Airport

Nearest Airport is Sonari Airport Jamshedpur, which is about 25 km from the site.

4.2.3 Nearest Highway

Nearest railway station is Sini R.S. which is about 2 Km away towards NE side.

4.3 Land form, land use and land ownership

Land Form: The mine agreement area is undeveloped barren private land.

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Land Use: Undeveloped gora land; Land Ownership: Private Land.

4.4 Topography:

The proposed applied lease area is almost flat and plain. The general reduce level of the area is 164m.The proposed brick clay mining site falls at a distance of 150 m from Sona River. Land profile comprises of thick covering of alluvial soil of clay texture which varies from sandy loam to loam soil which is medium alkaline, water soluble salt, calcareous up to few depth, moderately well drained moderate water holding capacity slope range 3 - 10%.

4.5 Existing & Proposed land use pattern

The existing land use pattern and at the end of Plan period of the area is given in below table.

Table showing land use within the lease area

SL. No Description Existing (ha.) At the end of Plan period (ha.) 1 Quarrying 0.04 0.502 2 Storage of casted bricks - Nil 3 Plantation at safety Zone - 0.362 4 Kiln - Nil 5 Road - 0.007(within mining) 6 Unused land 0.959 0.135 Total Area 0.999 0.999

4.6 Soil Type:

The soil type of area is clayey loam. PH ranges from neutral to slight alkaline with all general characteristic of alluvial in nature, low conductivity and less carbon content suitable for brick making.

4.7 Climatic conditions (District Saraikela-Kharsawan)

Climatically the year in the region may be divided into three seasons; the winter from November to February, the summer from March to May, and the rainy season from June-Oct. December-January are the coldest months while April-May are the hottest. The cold season is delightful while it is unpleasantly hot in the summer season with hot westerly winds prevailing. Monsoon generally breaks in the second week of June. The rainfall is the highest in July and August.

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The temperature shows a steady increasing trend from the beginning of March till May, the hottest month. The maximum temperature is 420 to 450 C and means temperature 100 to 120C. With the onset of the Southwest monsoon by about mid-June the day temperature drops appreciably and continues in the same range up to September. With the withdrawal of monsoon the day and night temperatures start falling from October heralding the onset of winter. The month of November marks the setting in of winter season with both day and night temperatures decreasing till January, which is the coolest month. The mean daily maximum and minimum temperatures in January are 26.4oC and 11.5oC respectively.

4.8 Social & other Infrastructure:

Nearest railway station is Sini railway station which is about 2 Km NE side from the applied area. SH-5: Adityapur-Chaibasa (SH-5 road) is passing at a distance of about 3 km SE Side from applied. Saraikela Police Station:

5. PLANNING BRIEF

5.1 Planning concept

The proposed project is to mine brick clay from plot(s) sustainably and scientifically. The minor mineral (clay) will be excavated from the plot(s) as per mining rules and casting of raw bricks will be done which will be transported to the kiln through cart, trolleys etc. Mining will be done by Opencast Manual method keeping nearby plot(s) unaffected. Maximum depth of mining will be only upto 2 m as per agreement and the prevailing rules.

5.2 Population projection:

There is no permanent influx of the population anticipated, as the workers will be hired locally from nearby villages.

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5.3 Land use planning:

The land of the mine lease area is barren and there will be no change in land use after operation. The ultimate land use of the mine lease area will not change. Extracted mineral will be used in casting raw bricks which will be transported directly to the kiln, the workers will be hired locally and temporarily, no housing facility will be required.

5.4 Assessment of Infrastructure Demand:

Extracted clay (earth) will be casted into raw bricks and used directly in own kiln outside the applied lease area. Further, since the size of the project is very small, no new or adverse effects on physical and social infrastructure like roads electricity, water supplies etc due to project are anticipated.

5.5 Amenities/facilities: Temporary rest shelters, drinking water and first aid facility will be made available to the mine workers.

6.0 PROPOSED INFRASTRUCTURE

6.1 Industrial area (Processing Area)

No industrial area is proposed. The lease area is spread over 2.47 acres or (0.999Ha) of barren land in mouza Kamalpur of Saraikela Kharsawan district. The quarry area will be 0.502 ha in the project area, while for plantation area will be 0.362 ha, & 0.007Ha for road.

6.2 Residential area (Non Processing Area)

Not more than 25 workers and 1 Supervisor will be needed for the project that will be hired from nearby villages, thus no housing facility is required.

6.3 Plantation

Plantation of soil binding grasses like Agave nector, Saccharum officinarum (Munja), Cassia tora (Charata), Opuntiaficus indica, Aloe vera (Gheekwar), Argemone maxicana, Euphorbia hirta across the benches.

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6.4 Connectivity

There is direct connectivity from site through village road up to the site. There is no proposal for kiln within the applied area. Kiln is situated outside the applied Plots. The allotted area is well connected to the villages Begnadih, Surmali & Jojo by village road. The Adityapur- Chaibasa (SH-5 road) is passing at a distance of about 3 km SE Side from applied. Nearest railway station is Sini railway station which is about 2 Km NE side from the applied area.

6.5 Social Infrastructure

Temporary rest shelters, drinking water and first aid facility will be made available to the mine workers with all the required medicines and vaccines. The company will also take up work for promoting educations and cultural activities in the surrounding villages as a part of its CSR.

6.6 Drinking Water Management

In order to meet the drinking water requirement for site workers, water from existing bore wells will be used.

6.7 Sewerage System

Since the waste water from the mine will be only due to domestic usage which will be minimal thus no sewerage system is proposed at the mine site.

6.8 Industrial Waste Management

Since the workings are open cast, which is on a soil plane – almost the entire excavation will be used for brick manufacturing hence, no waste management plan is required at the surface at this juncture.

6.9 Solid Waste management

No solid waste generation is expected from the mining operation.

6.10 Power Requirement & Supply/ Source

All the activities will be carried out manually. The operation will be restricted to day time only; hence there is no power requirement for the project at site.

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7 .0 REHABILITATION AND RESETTLEMENT (R&R) PLAN

7.1 Policy to be adopted (Central/State) in respect of the project affected persons including home oustees, land oustees and landless labours (a brief outline to be given).

The applied lease area is a part of private land and no person is going to be displaced. There will be no compulsory land acquisition for this project and as such no R & R is required, land agreement has been taken.

8.0 PROJECT SCHEDULE & COST ESTIMATES

8.1 Likely date of start of Construction and likely date of completion (time schedule for the project to be given)

This is a fresh applied area, therefore infrastructures are not available in the area. Since the geological reserve is sufficient enough, therefore question of time scheduling for abandonment does not arise at present. Time schedule of all abandonment operations as proposed is as follows: a) Tentative date of closure of the mine - Based on mineralized zone (Entire area), Lease area is going to be exhaust after 7.32 years or say 8 seasons.

8.2 Estimated project cost along with analysis in terms of economic viability of the project.

The total cost of project would be approx Rs. 08 lakhs. .

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9.0 ANALYSIS OF PROPOSAL (FINAL RECOMMENDATION)

Overall the project will have positive and long term impact on environment. The project will also bring positive changes in terms of socio economic development by way of generating direct and indirect employment opportunities for the people of vicinity. Also the project will bring economic benefit to the state in terms of revenue generation.

Apart from the financial benefits, this project will have a great positive social impact especially in this effected region, where the local population, in the nearby villages is still dependent on seasonal rice cultivation for their livelihood. This project can be a boon for the local population by providing them sustainable employment opportunity for their subsistence and thereby reducing their dependence on government aids. Further, from the environmental point of view, this project will have minimal impact, as the project envisages opencast quarrying operations using manual methods & that too in an area which is remote and is surrounded by wasteland. Also there will be no conflict of interests for resources between the lessee and the local population. In fact, the local people have expressed their unanimous support to this project by passing resolutions.

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