Extraction of Sand ,Stone and Bajri Applicant :_Sh. Vishavjeet Singh VPO Kadh Teh. Ghanari Distt una , H.P. PRE- FEASIBILITY REPORT

PRE-FEASIBILITY

REPORT

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1.0 Executive Summary

The proposed project is for mining of Stone, Sand and Bajri .The lease block is part of river bed of Soan. The area of the proposed mine is 02-37-70 ha and the proposed capacity of Stone, Sand and Bajri will be 53482 TPA The project falls under category “B2” as per EIA Notification, 2006 of the Ministry of Environment and Forests, New Delhi, and further amended thereof.

1.1 Salient Features of the Project

Project Name Stone, Sand and Bajri Mining Project Mining Lease Area 02-37-70 Ha Mauza Sanghnei Upmohal Jeetpur Location of mine Teh Ghanari Distt -Una, Latitude : 31° 41’ 56.95" N Coordinates Longitude : 76° 2' 47.60" E Toposheet number 53A/2 Minerals of mine Stone, Sand and Bajri 53482 Tones Per Annum (TPA) of St on e , Sand & Proposed Production Bajri Method of mining ManCollecuatli onM ining by using hand tools, shovels, Pans etc. No of working days 270 days Domestic Water : 0.4 KLD Water demand Dust Suppression : 0.3 KLD Total Water Requirement: 0.7 KLD Man Power 20 to 25 Railway Station – Andora Railway Station is about Nearest railway station 12 Km Nearest state highway/national highway Ambkm in Dharamsala NNE direct iAbouton. 6 km in ENE direction. Airport – Shimla Airport is about Kangra Nearest air port A p p r o x 8 0 km .

2. Introduction of the Project/ Background Information

2.1 Identification of Project and Project Proponent

A letter of Intent for grant of mining lease has been issued in name of Sh. Vishavjeet Singh S/o Sh Jarnail Singh VPO Kadh Teh. Ghanari Distt.Una H.P. for extraction of Stone, Sand & Bajri over an area of 02-37-70 Ha situated in Mauza Sanghnei ,Upmohal Jeetpur, Teh Ghanari Distt. Una H.P. over khasra numbers 1751/1 ,1752,1755,1756/1,1757/1,1758,1759,1760,1763/1 as per vide letter no Udyog-Bhu (Khani-4) Laghu-101/16-13389, dated 20-02-2017 was granted for the extraction of mineral from the same above said area and khasra number for the term of five years.

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The details of the project proponent and project are given below:

Name of the applicant Sh vishavjeet Singh S/o Sh. Jarnail Singh Name & Address of applicant Village & Post Office –Kadh Tehsil Ghanari District – Una, Himachal Name of Mine Stone,Pradesh S and & Bajri Mining Project Mineral Stone, Sand and Bajri Area (ha) 02-37-70 Ha Location Mauza Sanghnei, Upmohal Jeetpur Tehsil Ghanari District – Una, Himachal Status of Project NPreawde sh

2.2 Brief Description of Nature of the Project

Mining of Stone, Sand and Bajri will be carried out only up to a depth of 1 m (3 feet) depth, using hand tools like shovel, pan etc. only during the day time. The applicant intends to mine Stone, Sand and Bajri from the lease area. The extracted Stone, Sand and Bajri will be Utilized in stone crusher for make as construction material . Hence no storage facility at the mine site will be required. Mining will be confined to the allotted lease area lies in the bed of Soan River which is a tributary of Satluj River. The mining lease area is 02-37-70 hectare Situated in Mauza Sanghnei, Upmohal Jeetpur Teh .Ghanari District Una, and H.P. No drilling & blasting is proposed. The proposed capacity of collection of Stone, Sand and Bajri will be 53842 TPA.

2.3 Need for the Project and Its Importance to the Country or Region

The projects involves collection of Stone, Sand, and Bajri one of the most accessible natural resources and are the major basic raw material used for the construction of roads, building and bridges. The production of mineral is a function of the availability of natural resources, the economy of the area and the various developmental and infrastructural works being undertaken in the area like road construction, hydro electric projects etc. The mining will provide employment to the local people and it will help in the upliftment of socio-economic conditions of the residents.

2.4 Demands-Supply Gap

Building huge infrastructure as being envisaged by Government of particularly in road and housing sector requires basic building raw materials. Thus the demand for S t o n e , Sand and Bajri is ever

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growing with the growth of the infrastructure sector in our country. The requirement for the mineral is always high in the nearby cities and towns. Therefore there is always a good demand of the mineral in the domestic market. 2.5 Imports vs Indigenous Production

The demand in the domestic market is high for Sand and Bajri. Mineral is available in abundant quantity in allotted area and can be extracted indigenously. 2.6 Export Possibility

There is no proposal to export the mineral as the minerals extracted cater the indigenous demand and the development is a never ending process. 2.7 Domestic/Export Markets

Domestic Market

There is always an ever increasing demand of these minerals in the domestic market.

Export Market

The proposed mining activity is for indigenous consumption for real estate, road making etc. Therefore no export will be envisaged. 2.8 Employment Generation (Direct and indirect) due to the project

The total manpower requirement for the proposed mining operation will be around 20 directly.

3.0 Project Description

Location

Mining will be confined to the allotted lease area lies in the bed of Soan River which is a tributary of Satluj River. The mining lease area is 02-37-70 hectare Situated in Mauza S a g h n e i ,Upmohal Jeetpur Tehsil Ghanari , District Una, and H.P. The lease area is about 300 m away from the nearest metaled road. The co- ordinates of the mine lease area are:

Latitude : 31° 41’56.95" N Longitude : 76° 2' 47.60" E Buffer map of 5 km radius is attached as Map No.1.

Details of Alternate Sites

Mineral is site specific as well as the lease has been allotted in the particular area. Hence no alternative site is examined for mining.

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Size or Magnitude of Operation

The area of the proposed mine is 02-37-70 ha and the proposed capacity of Ston e, Sand and Bajri will be 53482 TPA The Applicant intends to mine Sand and Bajri from the allotted lease area. The extracted Stone, Sand and Bajri shall be used in stone crusher for further sale in the open market as per the demand. Hence no storage facility at the mine site will be required.

3.5 Project description with process details

Method of Mining

1. The mining/ collection of minerals shall involve shoveling by simple manual method using hand tool, extracted mineral will be directly loaded by workers into truck/tractors- trailers for transporting them to market. 2. No blasting is required.

3. With the replenishment of the excavated area during the high floods, the process of the controlled mining can continue year after year. The erosion and weathering of siwalik boulders beds in the catchment have inexhaustible supply of required minerals. 4. Though the major mining activities will be under taken during the dry seasons. Thus effective mining will be only for 300 days in a year.

5. Mining activity will be done in day time only.

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.

No raw material will be required in the proposed project. The operation involves the extraction of Sand and Bajri in its existing form. The extracted Sand and Bajri shall be used in stone crusher for making grit and sand , as per the demand. Hence no storage facility at the mine site will be required. 3.7 Resource Optimization/ Recycling and Reuse

Minerals are generally depleting asset, mined once but minerals like Stone, sand and bajri will be replenished naturally. As already explained the mining will be carried out in the river bed only. The area where mining shall be carried out would be replenished during the monsoon season due to fresh deposition Thus a scientific approach will be taken up for extraction of mineral with systematic method.

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3.8 Availability of Water, Its Source, Energy/ Power Requirement and Source

3.8.1 Water Requirement

Water Requirement Activity (KLD) Dust suppression 0.3 Domestic purpose 0.4 Total 0.7

Water Requirement for the mining process will be fulfilled from the nearby village Ghanari. Water will be transported through water tanker to the mine site. 3.8.2 Power

All the activities will be carried out manually with the use of hand tools for the extraction/collection of minerals. The material will be extracted and loaded directly into tractor trolleys by the workers themselves. The operation will be done in day time only, so there is no power requirement for the mining activity. 3.9 Quantity of Wastes to Be Generated (Liquid and Solid) and Scheme for Their Management/ Disposal No liquid effluent will be generated during this process . Only Silt and Clay are the type of waste generated during river bed mining which are hardly seen in the part of river beds. They are generaly be inseparable from sand and sold along with it . In present case sand is about 95 % and other things are only 5 % in the sand . It will not be commercially viable to separate it . Thus there is no waste to be disposed of in the area .

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4. Site Analysis

4.1 Connectivity

4.1.1 Nearest Railway Station

Railway Station – Andora Railway Station is about 12 km .

4.1.2 Nearest Airport

Airport –Kangra Airport is about 80 km .

4.1.3 Nearest Highway

Amb Dharamsala State Highway Approx . 6 Km away from the site .

4.2 Landform, Landuse and Land Ownership

As per revenue record, the area is a private land classified as Gair Mumkin Khad.

Owner Area in Name of Khasra of Kism Mauza/Mohal Hectare Panchayat Number Land 1751/1 Private Gair Mumkin Khad Sanghnei/Jeetpur 01-83-75 Sanghnei

1752 Private Gair Mumkin Khad Sanghnei/Jeetpur 00-18-08 Sanghnei

1755 00-02-26 Sanghnei Private Gair Mumkin Khad Sanghnei/Jeetpur

1756/1 00-08-12 Sanghnei Private Barani Abbal Sanghnei/Jeetpur 1757/1 00-07-37 Sanghnei Private Barani Abbal Sanghnei/Jeetpur 1758 Gair Mumkin 0-00-63 sanghnei Private Sanghnei/Jeetpur Gharat 1759 00-00-10 Sanghnei Private Gair Mumkin Khul Sanghnei/Jeetpur 1760 00-05-10 Sanghnei Private Barani Abbal Sanghnei/Jeetpur

1763/1 00-01-29 Sanghnei Private Barani Abbal Sanghnei/Jeetpur TOTAL 02-37-70

4.3 Geology

Regional Geology

The Shiwalik Group mainly represents the rocks of the district. In addition to this at few places the

Newer Alluvium of Quarternary age are also present.

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Siwalik Group

The Siwalik deposits are one of the most comprehensively studied fluvial sequences in the world. They comprise muds, sands, and coarsely bedded conglomerates laid down when the region was a vast basin during Middle Miocene, to Upper Pleistocene times. The sediments were deposited by rivers flowing southwards from the Greater Himalayas, resulting in extensive multi-ordered drainage systems. Following this deposition, the sediments were uplifted through intense tectonic regimes (commencing in Upper Miocene times), subsequently resulting in a unique topographical entity-the Siwalik Hills.

The Siwaliks are divided stratigraphically into three major Subgroups-Lower, Middle, and Upper. These Subgroups are further divided into individual Formations that are all laterally and vertically exposed today in varying linear and random patterns.

Ongoing erosion and tectonic activity has greatly affected the topography of the Siwaliks. Their present- day morphology is comprised of hogback ridges, consequent, subsequent, obsequent, and resquent valleys of various orders, gullies, choes (seasonal streams), earth-pillars, rilled earth buttresses of conglomerate formations, semi-circular choe-divides, talus cones, colluvial cones, water-gaps, and choe terraces. Associated badlands features include the lack of vegetation, steep slopes, high drainage density, and rapid erosion rates.

In the advent of Neogene a depression was formed in front of the rising mountains (Proto- Himalaya). This depression becomes a repository of a thick sequence of molassic sediments of the Siwalik. The Siwalik Group comprising conglomerates friable micaceous sand, silt and clay.

The conglomerates in general are poorly cemented but at places they are very hard. These consist mainly of pebbles and cobbles of quartzite. The stray bebbles of granite, lime, sand, braccia and lumps of clay are also observed at places. Often the size of pebbles is large enough to be called as Boulders. The conglomerates not only occur as regular band but also as lenticular bands alternative with micaceous sand and claybeds. The sediments were bought down 2 to 25 million years ago by the numerous fast flowing rivers issuing forth from rapidly Rising Mountain mass of the Himalaya, in the north.

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The Siwalik Group is divisible into three sub-groups respectively the Lower, Middle and Upper based on the lithostratigraphy.

The general lithostratigraphy of the area is as given below:

Group Lithology Age

Grey, fine to coarse micaceous sand and silts along Channel Alluvium with cobbles and pebbles of the fan and terrace

Quarternary alluvium. Newer Alluvium Grey, micaceous, fine to coarse grained sand, silt, clays Terrace Alluvium and cobble and pebbles. Brownish grey clay, sand and gravel, white to grey Fan Alluvium coloured cobble and bebble sequence.

Multicyclic sequence of brown to grey silt, clay with Older Alluvium Dun Gravels kankar and reddish brown to grey micaceous sand with pebbles & cobbles.

Siwalik Group Predominantly massive conglomerate with red and B orange clay as matrix and minor sand and earthy buff Upper Siwalik and brown clay. A Sand, clay and conglomerate alternation. Massive Sand with minor conglomerate and local

B Neogene variegated clay.

Middle Siwalik Predominantly medium to coarse- grained sand and red A day alternation, soft pebbly with subordinate clay,

locally thick prism of conglomerate. Alternation of fine to medium- grained sporadically

B pebbly sand, calcareous cement and prominent Lower Siwalik chocolate and medium maroon clay in the middle part. Red and mauve clay with thin intercalations of medium A to fine grained sand.

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Geology of the lease area

The leased out area forms a part of the stream bed. The stream bed is covered with sand of brought down during the floods in the stream. The area comprises predominantly the sand only. The lease area was agricultural fields before 2009 floods when it was inundated with flood water and receding floods left the entire area with thick sheet of sand.

Altitude of the Area

The highest point of the leased out area is 471 meters.

The lowest point of the leased out area is 470 meters.

4.4 Existing Land Use Pattern and Shortest Distances from Forests, Water Bodies, Eco- Sensitive Areas, Etc. The mining lease area is situated in the river course of Soan River. The stream course is occupied

with river borne deposits which comprises of Boulders Cobbles, Pebbles, Sands and Silt/clay deposits forming channel deposits of annual deposition. The deposits above high Flood Level are designated as terrace deposits which comprises of Boulders, Cobbles, Pebbles, Sand, Silt and clay. The upper surface in terrace area is covered with sandy soil where agriculture fields are developed. No hard rock is available in leased out area. The land, in which the mining lease lies, is at present as per revenue record, the area is a private land classified as Gair Mumkin Khad. There is no forest land or agriculture land in the mine lease area. There is no eco-sensitive area within

15 km radius of mine lease area.

4.5 Existing Infrastructure

The site has no existing infrastructure, except for connecting road for transportation.

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4.6 Climatic Data from Secondary Sources

Climate of is tropical to temperate in nature as the terrain varies from plains to high hills. Temperature varies from minimum of 4°C in winter to the maximum of 46°C in summer. The area receives rainfall during monsoon period extending from June to September and also non-monsoon period (winter). The annual average rainfall in the area is about 1040 mm with about 55 average rainy days. The winter season starts from the November and continues till the middle of March. Thereafter the mercury continues rising till the set of Monsoon which starts from the last week of June and continues till the middle of September. (Source: CGWB, Una, Ministry of Water Resources, District Book 2007) 4.7 Social Infrastructure Available

The site is located in bed of Soan River in Mauza Sanghnei Upmohal Jeetpur connected to the nearest metalled raod i.e m u b a r a k p u r - Road Connectivity Amb Highway.

Nearest Railway Station Andora Railway Station is about 12. Nearest Airport Kangra Airport is about 80 km Nearest School/ College Govt. Middle School Jeetpur Bheri Approx. 1 Km .

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5 Planning Brief

5.1 Planning Concept

Mining will be done as per the guidelines of Himachal Pradesh Minor Mineral (Concession) and Mineral ( Prevention of Illegal mining , Storage and Transportation ) Rules, 2015 . 5.2 Population Projection

The project will employ most of the workers from nearby villages except for supervisory staff. Thus there will no increase in population due to the project. However, few people from other area may migrate in this area for business opportunities. 5.3 Land Use Planning (Break Up Along With Green Belt, Etc.)

Within the lease area, open cast manual method of mining will be done. Extraction of mineral will not be carried more than one meter and follow the general/ normal channel direction of the khad.

Landuse Map attached as Map No-2.

5.4 Assessment of Infrastructure Demand (Physical & Social)

Infrastructure like evacuation road, site services will only be required.

5.5 Amenities/Facilities

The following facilities/amenities will be extended by the mine management:

Direct and indirect Employment, most of which will be from nearby villages.

Arrangements for safe and healthy working conditions

Provision of Drinking water.

First-Aid facilities and Health check-up camps for the workers.

Conducting medical camps for workers and nearby villagers at regular interval.

6. Proposed Infrastructure

6.1 Industrial Area (Processing Area)

No industrial area is proposed.

6.2 Residential Area (Non Processing Area)

As the local people will be given employment, no residential area/ housing are proposed.

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6.3 Green Belt

The afforestation Programme is the most important Programme to improve the environment and ecological balance of the area. Since the whole of the lease area submerges in water during monsoon, it is not possible to raise plantation within the lease area, they are allowing the proponent for plantation of trees along the haul road . 6.4 Social infrastructure

Road facility (existing roads will be maintained regularly)

Employment opportunity

Medical camps

Social awareness camps

Donations to schools

Secondary employment opportunities

Formation of self-help groups for the women in nearby villages

6.5 Connectivity

The site is located in bed of Soan River in Mauza S an gh n ei U p mo hal J e etp u r and connected to the nearest metalled raod i.e Mubarkpur- Amb Highway Road through unmetalled road.

6.6 Drinking Water Management

Water Requirement for the mining process will be fulfilled from the nearby village Sanghnei. This water will be transported through water tanker to the mine site.

6.7 Sewerage System

No sewerage system is proposed. However for sanitation purpose portable toilets will be made.

6.8 Industrial Waste Management

Not applicable

6.9 Solid Waste management

26740 Tones /annum Silt & Clay will be generated as waste, which is used for filling of low lying areas and also used for plantation purpose.

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6.10 Power Requirement & Supply/Source.

All the activities will be carried out manually with the use of hand tools. The operation will be done in day time only hence there is no power requirement for the proposed activity. 7. Rehabilitation and Resettlement (R&R) Plan

Not Applicable

8. Project Schedule & Cost Estimates

8.1 Likely date of start of construction and likely date of completion.

The project will commence once Environmental Clearance and other necessary certificates are obtained from the respective departments. 8.2 Estimated project cost along with analysis in terms of economic viability of the project

The cost of project (capital cost and recurring cost) as well as the cost towards implementation of EMP Capital Cost Recurring Cost S. No Description Measures (Lac Rs.) (In Lac Rs.) 1 Air pollution control Water Sprinkling 1.0 0.5 2 Green Belt Development Tree Plantation 1.0 0.2 3 C. S. R 1.0 0.5 Total 3.0 1.2 Total budget for EMP for 5 years = Capital Cost (Rs. 3.0 Lacs) + Recurring Cost (1.4 Lacs * 5) = 10 lacs.

9.0 ANALYSIS OF PROPOSAL (FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS)

The Project will bring economic benefits to the state through royalty for minerals. Achieving a huge infrastructure as being envisaged by Government of India particularly in road and housing sector requires basic building materials. Sand and Bajri are the primary building material required for the construction purpose. The mining activities as proposed are the backbone of all construction and infrastructure projects as the raw material for construction is available only from such mining. Sand and Bajri extracted are in high demand at the local market for real estate industry. This project operation will provide livelihood to the poorest section of the society/economically backward population and tribals in the area. It provides employment to the people residing in vicinity directly or indirectly. The mine management will also help nearby villages by providing schools, conducting medical and social awareness camps, helping in formation of self-help groups, etc. Thus the project will defiantly helpful for the socio-economic improvement of the area and will prove beneficial to the area.

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