Brief write up of Sugar Pvt Ltd. Village Alegaon in Taluka Daund of (MH) Proposed Expansion of Sugar 6000 TCD to 7500 TCD Sugar Plant and Molasses based Distillery 90 KLPD to 120 KLPD M/s. Daund Sugar Pvt. Ltd. is an existing industry located in village Alegaon in Daund Taluka of Pune district in the state of .

Mr. Jagdish Laxmanrao Kadam is the Chairman & Director. Mr. Shahaji Balasaheb Gaikwad is the Whole time Director. DSPL has acquired 5,73,803 m2 land near village Alegaon in Daund Taluka of Pune district in the state of Maharashtra. Here the company has presently set up a sugar mill with cogeneration unit & molasses based Distillery. Sugar mill cane crushing capacity is 6000 TCD. Cogeneration unit generates 18 MW electrical power. Distillery capacity is 90 KLPD. Sugar manufacture from cane generates several by products use of which increases productivity and profitability of unit. The by-product of 6000 TCD sugar mill are (i) Bagasse 1680 MTD, (ii) Molasses 270 MTD and (iii) press mud 240 MTD. Now they are proposing Sugar mill 7500 TCD. The proposed sugar unit will also be generating large quantities of byproducts viz. bagasse (2100 MT/day), molasses (335 MT/day) and press mud (300 MT/day). To be economically and environmentally sustainable, it is necessary for the sugar industry to convert these by-products into high value products and hence existing alcohol distillery of 90 KLPD will be expanded to 120 KLPD is proposed, for which this EIA study is undertaken.

Water requirement of molasses distillery shall requirement 1073m3/day and sugar unit will be 780 KLPD it will sourced from Bhima river. Total working days for distillery, sugar ,co-gen are 300,180,210 respectively.

Manufacturing Process for Molasses Based Distillery: Alcohol production in the plant is based on continuous Fermentation Technology with yeast recycle using yeast separators. Production of alcohol is mainly carried under the three steps (i.e. Dilution, Fermentation and Distillation. Manufacturing process for sugar unit : Most of the sugar factories in follow double sulphitation process and produce plantation white sugar. The major unit operation are extraction of juice, clarification,evaporation,crystallization,centrifugation. Project cost as envisaged at time of application was for distillery Rs.8695 lac and sugar plant Rs. 5079.73 lac. Nearest water body is Bhima river. There is no National Parks/ Wild Life Sanctuaries/ Biosphere Reserves/RF and PF within 10 km radius area of project site.

We now request members to award Terms of Reference for our proposal as early as possible.

Name of the Consultant: Mantras Green Resources Ltd., Nasik