Pre Feasibility Report of Ankit Kumar Agrawal Limestone Quarry, Village-Ranijaroud, Area- 1.121 Hect. District –

PRE-FEASIBILITY REPORT 1. SUMMARY Project Name of Company / Mine Owner Ankit Kumar Agrawal

Location Village Ranijaroud Taluka Simga District Baloda Bazar State

1 Mining Lease Area & Type of land The mining lease area under study is 1.121 Ha.situated in flat land.

2 Geographical co-ordinates Corner Latitude Longitude A 21°38'12.65"N 81°58'38.45"E B 21°38'08.01"N 81°58'37.10"E C 21°38'08.21"N 81°58'35.84"E D 21°38'09.67"N 81°58'36.20"E E 21°38'09.68"N 81°58'34.78"E F 21°38'09.45"N 81°58'34.71"E

G 21°38'09.46"N 81°58'34.11"E H 21°38'10.89"N 81°58'34.19"E I 21°38'10.72"N 81°58'35.24"E

J 21°38'13.15"N 81°58'35.60"E 3 Name of Rivers/Nallahs/Tanks/ Barahmasi Mahanadi River exist at about 40 km in East Spring/Lakes etc of the lease area. 4 Name of Reserve Forest(s), Wild life There is no reserve forest, wild life sanctuary/national Sanctuary/ National parks etc. parks exist within 10 km radius of area under study.

5 Topography of the area The area is covered by soil which is devoid of vegetation. The maximum elevation is about 276 m M.S.L and minimum is 273 m. The general ground slope of the area is towards the Northeast. 6 Project Proposal The proposal is for the production of 15390 m3 lime stone per year. Pre Feasibility Report of Ankit Kumar Agrawal Limestone Quarry, Village-Ranijaroud, Area- 1.121 Hect. District –Baloda Bazar

7 Name of Mineral mined Limestone

8 Rate of Production (in tons) Based on 300 working days, production per day is 37.07 m3.

9 Mineral Reserve in Million Tons The Geological reserve – 300655 m3. Minable reserve – 78084.63 m3. Recordable reserve -74180.34 m3 10 Life of mine About 10 years

11 Drilling/ Blasting Drilling is not required. Blasting will be required for broken the hard rock and for blast holes jack hammer shallow drill holes are required. 12 Mining method Opencast, semi mechanized method of mining. 13 Ground water table intersection Ground water table is at a depth of about 35 meter below and the mining activities are confined only up to a depth of 27.5 meters from the surface during the first five year mining tenure. Hence there is no chance of intersection of water table during the mining activities.

14 Drainage pattern/ water courses Sub dendritic drainage pattern / No specific water course exist nearby which requires attention.

15 Break-up of Land Utilization Pattern The total area is 1.121 Ha. This is private owned land. Area under excavation – 0.80 Ha. Area for soil dumping – 0.26 Ha. Plantation – 0.13Ha. 16 Water requirement & Source As much as about 10 KLPD Water will be required for mining operations including dust suppression along haul road / mine faces, cleaning, washing, drinking as well as plantation. 17 Solid waste/Tailings Only about 10% waste materials will be generated This material is nothing but crushed and breakage part of limestone. 18 IBM approval : Date Not applicable

19 Cost of project Cost of the project: (Rs. Lakhs] About Rs-700000 /- 20 Any Other (specify) Not required. Pre Feasibility Report of Ankit Kumar Agrawal Limestone Quarry, Village-Ranijaroud, Area- 1.121 Hect. District –Baloda Bazar

Name and address of the company Ankit Kumar Agrawal Village-Tilda Thasil-Tilda Dstrict-Raipur Chhattisgarh Mine office Village –RanijaroudPin-495671 Taluka – Simga District – Baloda Bazar , Chhattisgarh. Email ---- Prospecting Agency Prospecting is not required as the area is less than 5 ha.

Type of Activity Opencast semi mechanized mining

Utilities (Power, water Requirement) No. water, power required for mining purpose.

Manpower Requirement Skilled labour - 1 Unskilled labour – 17

2. INTRODUCTION OF THE PROJECT / BACKGROUND INFORMATION

(i) Identification of Project and Project Proponent. Name of the Project: Ankit Kumar Agrawal, Limestone quarry at Village Ranijaroud, SimgaTaluka and Baloda Bazar District Chhattisgarh – 494223.

Project Proponent Collector, Baloda Bazar granted Stone quarry for the mining of Limestone to Ankit Kumar Agrawal resident of Tilda, District-Raipur as per collector letter

As per Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification ,2006, as amended requires mining projects ( new projects, expansion or modernization of existing projects as also at the stage of renewal of mine lease) with lease area of 5 ha and above, irrespective of the mineral (major or minor ) to obtained prior environment clearance under the provisions thereof. Mining projects with lease area of 5 ha and above and less than 50 ha are categorized as category ‘B’. Category ‘B’ projects are considered by the respective State Level Environment Impact Assessment Authority, notified by MoEF under the EIA Notification, 2006. Supreme Court of India in Special leave petition ( C ) dated 27 th February 2012 directs that “ leases of minor mineral including their renewal for an area less than 25ha be granted by the states/UTs only after getting environment clearance from the MoEF. Further Government of India, Ministry of Environment and Forest issued guidelines dated 24th Dec 2013 and amendments are made regarding categorization of ‘B’ category projects.

(ii) Brief Description of Nature of the Project. Pre Feasibility Report of Ankit Kumar Agrawal Limestone Quarry, Village-Ranijaroud, Area- 1.121 Hect. District –Baloda Bazar

This is a new mining lease project for period of 10 years. The area is covered by soil which is devoid of vegetation. The method of mining will be opencast semi mechanized by deploying equipments for excavation of stone and loading for transportation Need for the Project and its importance to the country and or region, Lime stone have the great importance as building material. Bigger size stone as blocks are used to fill the foundation of building while small pieces are usually mixed with cement and other ingredients to create mortar for building. As a building material, stones have good demand in the market. Hence small scale mining of lime stone is a good source of earning of local villagers for their livelihood.

(iii) Demand Supply Gap

The demand of lime stone is huge as after crushing in to small pieces it is the main raw material for constructions. To fill up the demand, the lime stone mined out from the mining lease area will be supplied in the open market in raw form or after crushing it to different sizes.

(iv) Demand Supply Analysis

In order to have the great demand for lime stone gitty the supply is limited. To fulfill the demand of market the mined out Stones will be supplied in the market.

(v) Employment Generation (Direct and Indirect) Due to the Project

Unskilled 17 labors will be required for loading the mined out lime stones on trucks etc and skilled 1 people will be required for supervision purpose, maintain the record of production and shipment etc.

3. PROJECT DESCRIPTION

(i) Type of Project (including interlinked and interdependent project, if any)

This project is a small mining project which is interlinked with crusher unit.

(ii) Location (map showing general location, specific location and project boundary & project site-specific layout) with coordinates. The limestone mining lease area is situated near village Ranijaroud, in tahsil Simga, District -Baloda Bazar of Chhattisgarh State. The area falls in survey of India Toposheet No. 64 G/14.

The detail of the area is as under:

District : Baloda Bazar

Tahsil : Simga

Village : Ranijaroud

Area (ha) : 1.121 Ha.

The coordinates of the area are:

Corner LATITUDE LONGITUDE Pre Feasibility Report of Ankit Kumar Agrawal Limestone Quarry, Village-Ranijaroud, Area- 1.121 Hect. District –Baloda Bazar

A 21°38'12.65"N 81°58'38.45"E

B 21°38'08.01"N 81°58'37.10"E

C 21°38'08.21"N 81°58'35.84"E

D 21°38'09.67"N 81°58'36.20"E

E 21°38'09.68"N 81°58'34.78"E

F 21°38'09.45"N 81°58'34.71"E

G 21°38'09.46"N 81°58'34.11"E

H 21°38'10.89"N 81°58'34.19"E

I 21°38'10.72"N 81°58'35.24"E

J 21°38'13.15"N 81°58'35.60"E Location Map and Google Map showing coordinates of the lease area is attached herewith.

(iii) Details of alternate sites considered and the basis of selecting the proposed site, particularly the environmental considerations gone into should be highlighted.

No alternate site is considered as the mining lease is a site specific activity. In the present case, the collector has granted the mining lease to the owner for the mining of lime stone. As for as the environmental considerations are concerned the area is away from the human habitation, in the private owned land, free from forest. This mining activity does not affect the water table of the area. Limited machinery will be required for mining of stone and limited transport vehicles are needed for shipment of produced material.

(iv) Size or Magnitude of operation.

The mining lease area is 1.121. in which the working area is 0.80 ha and the production of lime stone is about 37.07 m3 per day that too with blasting etc. Hence the size or magnitude of operation is very small.

(v) Project Description with Process details (a schematic diagram/ Flow chart showing the project layout, components of the project etc. should be given.

The lime stone mining will be carried out mainly by semi mechanized with the use of mining equipments. Only limited drill holes with the help of jack hammer will be required for limited blasting purpose in the mining process. The mined out stone will be crushed in to small size in crusher proposed within the lease area and finally transported through trucks, tippers etc. to the end users. Drilling

Drilling is not required for exploration purpose but for production of stone, jack hammer drill holes are required for blasting purpose to break the rock. In future if required details of drilling will be taken up in next mining scheme or revision of mining plan.

Blasting: Blasting will be required for broken the hard rock. Type of explosives used / to be used. As explosive, ANFO (Ammonium Nitrate - Fuel Oil) to be used for blasting purpose. Pre Feasibility Report of Ankit Kumar Agrawal Limestone Quarry, Village-Ranijaroud, Area- 1.121 Hect. District –Baloda Bazar

Storage of explosive (like capacity and type of explosive magazine)

Blasting will be done by licensed contractor hence magazine is not required in the mining site.

(vi) Raw Material/ Consumables Required along with estimated quantity, likely source, marketing area of final product, mode of transport of raw material and finished product.

No any raw material/ consumables are required. The stone produced from the mine will be crushed in to small size in crusher proposed within the lease area and finally transported through trucks, tippers etc. to the end users.

(vii) Availability of water, its source, Energy/power requirement and source should be given. As much as about 10 KLPD Water will be required for mining operations including dust suppression along haul road / mine faces, cleaning, washing, drinking as well as plantation. Energy/power is not required as the mining activities are carried out in day time only.

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

About 5 % sub grade materials will be generated. This sub grade material is nothing but the crushed and brakeage part of stone. Hence it is proposed to stack this sub grade material in a suitable place.

Selection of Dumping Site:

The stacking of the sub grade material generated during mining is proposed in the mine area itself at a suitable place.

SITE ANALYSIS Connectivity The mine area which is near to the Ranijaroud village is well connected to district HQ Baloda Bazar by all weather roads.

(i) Land Form, and Land Ownership

The land on which this mining lease sanctioned is the private owned land in Khasra no. 25 covering an area of 1.121 Ha. shown in the map.

(ii) Topography along with maps

The mining area under study falls in Survey of India toposheet no.64 G/14. The area is almost a horizontal plain. The area is about 1.3 km of the East village Ranijaroud. Pre Feasibility Report of Ankit Kumar Agrawal Limestone Quarry, Village-Ranijaroud, Area- 1.121 Hect. District –Baloda Bazar

The maximum elevation is about 276 m from M.S.L and minimum is 273m. The general ground slope is towards eastern of the area.

(iii) Climatic data from Secondary Sources

The climate is sub-tropical, semi arid, continental and monsoon type. Thus, it has hot summers, cool winters and small rainy season.

The average rainfall in the area is 1200 mm.

(iv) Social infrastructure available

There is no social infrastructure existing at / or in the near vicinity of 1.0 Km radius of the mining area.

5) PLANNING IN BRIEF Planning Concept (type of industries, facilities, transportation etc) town and country Planning / Development authority classification:

The limestone mining activity has no other concept except mining and transportation of mined out material to end-users after crushing in stone crusher proposed within the lease area.

(i) Population Projection: Since there will be hardly any influx of people from outside in the region, hence there will not by any impact on the population projection of the region accept the normal increase in population.

(ii) Land Use Planning

Area of stone mining is 1.121Ha. on a flat land. The area under excavation will be only 0.80 ha while for stacking surface soil and waste dump and plantation the required area will be 0.26 ha. It is non forest; private owned land situated near the village Ranijaroud a thinly populated village.

(iii) Assessment of Infrastructure Demand (Physical & Social):

Since there will not be any major influx of people from outside, in this region because of the project, no adverse effect on physical and social infrastructure like roads, electricity, water supplies etc are anticipated.

6. PROPOSED INFRASTRUCTURE

(i) Industrial Area (Processing Area) Pre Feasibility Report of Ankit Kumar Agrawal Limestone Quarry, Village-Ranijaroud, Area- 1.121 Hect. District –Baloda Bazar

There is no proposal for any infrastructure development.

(ii) Residential There is no plan for development of residential area in the region.

(iii) Green Belt

Plantation will be carried preferably on the lease boundary, on dump area, on overburden stack and along the road used for transportation.

(iv) Social Infrastructure It is expected that the project will lead to much needed employment opportunities in the villages which will contribute to the socio-economic development of this area.

(v) Drinking Water Management (Source and Supply of Water) The drinking water requirement for personnel working at the site will be met from the nearby village/river.

(vi) Sewerage System In view of the personals engaged in the project the movable type of sewerage system may be installed /deployed nearby the mine area. This may avoid polluting the land / water / air of the area.

(vii) Industrial Waste Management No industrial waste will be generated hence management not required.

(viii) Power Requirement & Supply / Source. Not required.

7. REHABILITATION AND RESETTLEMENT (R & R) PLAN Not required as the area is away from village and free from habilitation.

8. PROJECT SCHEDULE AND COST ESTIMATES

Total expenses estimated about 7 lakes.

RECOMMENDATIONS

The mining of stone and allied activities have no impacts on the surrounding environment. Moreover based on development of this project certain positive impact will be there on the nearby village population in terms of employment generation etc. Hence this project may be cleared and clearances accorded.

(Signature of Project Proponent Pre Feasibility Report of Ankit Kumar Agrawal Limestone Quarry, Village-Ranijaroud, Area- 1.121 Hect. District –Baloda Bazar

Along with name and address)

Ankit Kumar Agrawal