REPLY TO THE LETTER FROM MEMBER SECRETARY, SEIAA - SEIAA/TN/F.No 6426/2017 Dt. 24.08.2017

1. Land use classification of the proposed site The land is classified for industrial use and is declared as prohibited place by the Government of Tamil Nadu. Annexure-1. 2. Affidavit furnished in Rs 100/- stamp paper duly signed by the Notary The affidavit is attached as Annexure-2. 3. Layout showing Green belt area of a total of 33 % The same has been attached as Annexure -3. The land use classification is shown in the table below.

Area in Area in Total area in Sr.No Land use Parameter sq.m(existing) sq.m(Proposed) sq.m Total extent of site 258986 1 Bulk storage vessels 2434 2907 5341 Sub Total 2 Stores 99.4 3 Car/Cycle shed 75 4 Admin / Canteen 280 5 Security 24 6 Rest Room 20 7 Truck Crew rest room & Toilet 90 Sub Total 588.4 8 LPG Pump /compressor House 90 9 Truck Unloading Bay 420 10 Loading / Unloading fingers 471 11 Filling / empty storage shed 1785 12 Filled storage shed 945 13 Valve change shed 42.5 14 Weigh Bridge 154.56 Electricity sub station / D.G 15 room/4 pole structure 615

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Air compressor & Fire water 16 pump house 130

17 Fire water reservoir 800 Sub Total 5453 17 Roads & Drive ways 71026 71026 18 Truck Parking 4000 4000 19 Green belt 2751 85856 88607 20 Remaining vacant area 83970.6 Sub Total

4. Details of CSR activities carried out by the facility

Name of the project: Drought Mitigation in Govarnergiri chain of tanks in Block of Tuticorin District

Project period for 2009-2011 Background of the District District, also known as Tuticorin District is a district in Tamil Nadu state in southern . As of 2011, the district had a population of 1,750,176 with a sex-ratio of 1,023 females for every 1,000 males. is situated in the south-eastern corner of Tamil Nadu. It is bounded on the north by the districts of Tirunelveli, Virudhunagar, and Ramanathapuram, on the east and southeast by the Gulf of Mannar and on the west and southwest by Tirunelveli district. The total area of the district is 4621 km. Paddy, cotton, groundnuts, Jaggery, banana, dry chilly, cholam, cumbu wood charcoal, etc. are their main source of agriculture income. Boond project It was the initiative undertaken by the BPCL-CSR in the year 2005, it was started in the state of Maharashtra and Rajasthan slowly replicated to different states viz. Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand and Karnataka. The Project Drought Mitigation in Governorgiri chain of tanks in Ottapidaram District in Tamil Nadu project commenced on 15th December 2009 with the support of the Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd and Oil industry Development Board- Drought Relief Trust (OIDB-DRT). is a drought prone block with large number of socially and economically marginalised farmers in tuticorin district. The Governorgiri chain of tanks of Kallar basin

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has these chain of tanks which is identified as the one warranting attention on priority to ensure adequate income to the farmers and other user even during drought years. Development of Humane Action (DHAN) Foundation, a professional development organisation, was initiated on October 2, 1997. For over a decade, the trust is working with poor communities to improve their quality of life and reduce poverty. Dhan Vayalagam (Tank) Foundation is a tank fed agriculture development programme was a thematic programme of DHAN Foundation for more than a decade towards of reducing rural poverty.

Brief about the project (2009-2011):

S. Thrust Objectives Number of Project Project achieved No. of No. area beneficiaries targeted structure 1 Water To rehabilitate 450 farmers 5 Tank desalting and 9 tanks the Governargiri having villages bund strengthening chain of tanks extended of work, Reconstruction 158 hectares of surplus course, (5 villages) Desalting of surplus course, Training to farmers and community organise

Name of the 9 tanks that were under the project:  Ilanthaikulam  Vaddakkuavarankadu  Thummakundu  Pettaikulam  Kuyavankulam  Sevalkulam  Kurukankulam  Pudukulam  kakarampattikulam

Name of the five Villages:  Governargiri  Vaddakkuavarankadu  Panchalangurichi  K. Thalavaipuram  Agilandapuram

Budget approve & Expenditure: Budget approval Funded 1st Outcome Expenditures in the year 2009- by payment in Rs. 2010 (in Rs.)

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Rs.19 lakhs OIDB 5,00,000 9 tanks were spread in 5 4,11,600 villages: baseline test and need assessment in all the villages, orientation to different key persons in the community including BDO of Ottapidaram Block for getting NOC, 3 men Micro Finance Groups (MFGs) were promoted for sustainability. 5000 One day consultancy on various water management projects of BPCL (Mr. Vasimalai from Dhan Foundation). 2nd payment 5,00,000 Tank desilting and bund 7,69,040 strengthening work 3rd payment 8,63,723 Reconstruction of sluices and 2,19,200 plug rod work SBI interest 13,611 Reconstruction of surplus 2,19,200 course Desalting of surplus course 1,96,640 Training to farmers and 41,760 community organise Administrative cost 1,47,807 Travel and communication 19,583 expenses Total 18,77,334 18,77,334

Budget approval Funded Payment Outcome Expenditures in the year 2010- by (in Rs.) in Rs. 11 20.91 lakhs OIDB 2,22,000 Conjunctive use of water Rs.14,89,000 11,00,000 bodies in Kothali tank based BPCL 1,67,000 watershed in Ottapidaram Block.

DHAN Foundation had placed the field workers and collaborated with the community people with the purpose to mobilise, people participation and build a good rapport. The work implemented in the project are desilting of supply channels and link channels in the chain, desilting the tanks and strengthening of bund in vulnerable location, Page 4 of 25

repair/reconstruction sluices for water regulation, repair and reconstruction of surplus weirs and desilting of surplus courses. Through this project, it could built the micro finance groups organised among the families served by the chain of tanks to facilitate timely agricultural inputs and operations without the need for getting loans from highly charge money leaders. The villagers also work together to rehabilitate the construction/tank system before the onset of the monsoon season to facilitate the agriculture more rainwater in the tanks and bunds and to protect the flooding damage.

Benefited from the project:  Effective and efficient rainwater harvesting achieved in the chain of tank system due to rehabilitation taken up in all the tanks.  Tanks farmers associations promoted for conservation of irrigation tanks  Improved ground water recharge around the tank cascade area.  Productivity increased and thereby the individual income enhancing the cooperation among the members in the vayalagam.  The cascade vayalagam get strengthened with negotiating power to get adequate funds from the mainstream institutions for the future maintenance of the tank systems.  Credit facilities with lesser interest available to farmers.

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Project period 2011-12 “Revitalizing the cascade of Nagalaru irrigation tanks of Theni district”.

Background of the location Theni District is a district of Tamil Nadu state in South India. The city of Theni is the district headquarters. The district is divided into two natural divisions: The hilly areas are constituted by parts of the three taluks Periyakulam, Uthamapalayam and Andipatti with thick vegetation and perennial streams from the hills on the western side and Cumbum valley which lies in Uthamapalayam taluk. As of 2011, Theni district had a population of 1,245,899 with a sex-ratio of 991 females for every 1,000 males. 90 km away from Territory office. Earthen bund of small water structures indigenously constructed for storage of water and the areas irrigated by each tank could provide irrigation to 5 ha to 100 ha it varies as per the size of the tanks. As these tanks are connected in chains as tank cascades there is the effect of synergy in water harvesting, surplus of the upper tank collected in lower tank, facilitates higher irrigation efficiency. This tanks are very useful for the farmers and people for their village economy, agriculture, ecology, environment, culture etc. but due to continuous negligence of maintenance, the performance of tank system has become very poort affecting the poor rural community. There should be a sudden action taken to rehabilitate in the process including desilting of link channels, irrigation, techniques of agricultural production enhancement etc. Boond Project As a part of CSR, Rain Water Conservation as one of the thrust core area under the project “BOOND” which is the rain water harvesting method funded by OIDB. During our previous partnership with DHAN Foundation its impacts was not only making water positive to the drought prone areas but also efforts were also made for socio-economic development of the communities by forming Self-Help groups, giving agricultural inputs and encouraging dual crop cultivation, enrolling the students on environment conservation and also forming village water committees. DHAN Foundation Vayalagam Tank Foundation has initiated its water programme with the objectives to reive the tanks and improve the ground water status. With the support from BPCL and OIDB nagaluru rain fed tank cascade, rain water harvesting and recharge the ground water.

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Brief about the project (2011-12)

S. Thrust Objectives Number of Project achieved No. of No. area beneficiaries structure 1 Water To revitalizing the 1736 Desilting and restoring 6 rain fed centuries old cascading households six fed tanks in Nagaluru minor tank system in southern cascade for the purpose irrigation part of the country through of enhancing livelihood tanks of desilting the linked and crop production and Nagalaru channels, repair and freeing villagers of debt cascade improve agriculture cycle. activities

Budget and expenditure of the project: Budget Funded 1st & 2nd 3rd Payment 4th payment Expenditures approval by payment in Rs. Rs.11,50,000 OIDB Rs.6,90,000 Rs.3,45,000 Rs.1,14,846 11,49,846 Balance Rs.154.00 Outcome Community Organization and participation, Techno-managerial support and consultancy, Physical work for tank development by desilting feeder channels, removal of shrubs and bushes from tank bed, creating adequate rainwater storage, strengthening bunds and water distribution structures,

Name of the six tanks:  Vaiyapuri kulam,  Pulvetti kanmoi,  Kurunthankulam oorani,  Bommayasami kanmoi & Kodanginayakan Kanmoi,  Govindappa naicken and  Kannimar kulam Outcome from the project: Five tank associations and one tank cascade association have been promoted to take care of the tanks system and in total six tanks were developed. Through the project 111 hectares of land could covered for irrigation in which 140 farmers families had benefited while 75 non-land holders could access to drinking water and generate economic condition for the family members. 8 micro finance groups were created for sustainability and scope to support themselves through economically empowerment. During this project, the cost of 10-15% were contributed by the people.

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Impact of tank development work: Feeder channel clearance work had enhance the supply of the run-off water from the catchment area. Feeder clearance work would help to ensure the additional filling of the tank during the monsoon when compared to their earlier years. Through this project 116 acres of land were covered with 145 farmers had benefited and they have cultivated paddy, vegetables, maize, cashew, groundnut, moringa, etc. Additional water would be available for agriculture and other domestic purposes of the tank work implemented villages. It has support the tank farmers to get enough water for their cultivation from October to January. The farmers could go for the second crop by using the excess in the tank with conjunctives use of ground water from the wells and also by using the summer rain. The fertile top soil of the tank catchment area the farmers had benefited through tank silt application reaching the areas in acres of 52 and 129 farmers had benefited from the project. This tank silt application could help to increase the soil moisture retention capacity of the soil particularly in rain fed cultivation. Through this tank silt application, it helped the farmers to improve their yield in catchment area dry lands to cultivate like maize, Bajra etc. With the total number of households in the village of 1736 had benefited from this project. Milch animal rearing and goat/sheep rearing is allied activities of the agriculture in these villages. The water to be stored in the deep-end portion of the tank will support the livestock population of the village even during the summer season. The location of the project is mostly in the red soil area therefore tanks plays a significant role in ground water recharge. Over the time ground water is being over exploited and therefore this tank works will help for good recharge of the groundwater aquifer in 45 open wells and 17 bore wells which are situated in the vicinity of the tank water spread area. In addition to storage volume created in the work implementation tanks that had help the villagers is to go for fish rearing activities which had add to their livelihood of the people and also give employment for the landless poor people in the villages.

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Project: Livelihood enhancement through Natural Resources conservation i.e. project “Boond” in Tuticorin-Tamil Nadu in partnership with NGO DHAN Foundation (2014-2019)

Project Period of 2014-2015 Introduction about the project Tank and ponds are the additional water harvesting structures, established centuries before to collect water in southern peninsular India. It is closely associated with the livelihood for the villages and it has occupied a prominent places in the village economy. In the state of Tamil Nadu there are more than 39000 tanks which supports the livelihood of thousands farmers communities. Due to various reasons there was negligence to maintain the traditional tanks and ponds which led to major drought in the areas with little agriculture cultivation of crops. Therefore, in this project it had been designed to combat drought and facilitate accessibility to drinking water and irrigation needs in the drought prone areas. Objective of the project 1. To promote community-led natural resource management by building 115 community owned organisations. 2. To renovate and create 165 water bodies for harvesting rainwater and achieving food security. 3. To enable 445 farmers to generate and improve income out of farming. 4. To improve in the rise of water level and knowledge on risk transfer measures. Through this project there were various groups of people from the villages who have participated in the community planning, organizing, assessing in community needs, tree plantation and fish rearing. Below are the names of the villages where the associations are promoted. Tuticorin District- plan list of villages covered in three locations:

S.No. (Block) S. No. Pudur (Block) S.No Ottapidaram (Block) 1 Melmanthai 9 Pattithevanpatti 17 Governerkiri 2 P. Shanmugapuram 10 18 Vellaram 3 Pommaiyapuram 11 Boothalapuram 19 Akilandapuram 4 Periyasamipuram 12 Kadalgudi 20 Vadakku Avarankadu 5 Pillaiyasamipuram 13 M.K.Sakkanapuram 21 Lakshmipuram Keela Poovani 6 T.Subbaiyapuram 14 N. Jegaveerapuram 22 Keelakottai 7 Mamunainarpuram 15 P.Jegaveerapuram 8 Kalukasalapuram 16 Mavilodai Total 22 Villages *Kothali and Neeravipudupatti were also covered in the outcome.

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Budget and expenditure for 2014-15 Budget Funded 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Expenditures approval by Payment payment Payment payment Rs.44,72,000 BPCL Rs.8,94,350 Rs.17,88,700 Rs.13,41,525 Rs.4,47,175 Rs.44,71,750 Balance Rs.250 Outcome  Reached out to the 24 village’s in Conservation works and people’s organisations were promoted, 24 vayalagams were promoted, 40 microfinance groups were promoted, 3 tanks and 17 village ponds were renovated, 9 farm ponds were established.  Tree sapling plantation of 1636 were planted in which 1386 saplings were purchased from the fund while 250 sapling plants were received from line departments.  Quantity of water that can be conserved is 5.7 crore litres  4268 households had benefited and 19850 livestock have access to drinking water.

Impact of the Project As part of tank renovation full participation and support was given by village local panchayat and community level. According to the project, BPCL has contributed 85% of funds and the community has contributed 15% which were made to create future maintenance funds from block levels. Village ponds would dried up during the dry season or once the monsoon is over therefore the project caters to the restoring water level the ponds were deepen so that farmers and community people can access to water facilities. Under this five years plan, 93 village ponds were planned to renovate in the first year 17 village ponds were renovated and additional water storage was created to the extent of 489.70 lakhs liters per filling. Hand pumps and bore wells are drilled around the village pond, which is the main source of water for the entire village. Through this project, farm ponds were established to store the capacity of five lakhs liters of water. The following are the benefits for the people and the community qualitatively: 1. Protects crops during the dry season and provides life-saving irrigation when the gap between two rainfalls is wide. 2. Increases the soil moisture and facilitate microbial activities. 3. Helps to raise vegetables around the pond. 4. Supplies water to the livestock and long duration of water for fish rearing. During this project period, 9 farm ponds was planned to achieve and it was achieved with good outcome result. The farm ponds established will ensure food and income for the poor and vulnerable farmers.

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Tree plantation in the barrier lands were encouraged to the farmers for fodder, fruits, timbers and shadow values through which they can generate income. As per the project 600 sapling has to be planted and they have achieved 1,636 saplings were purchased with the fund while 250 saplings were received from the line department. Farmers who have supported to this planned not only enjoy the nature but also helps in sustainability in generating economic condition of the family and community. Tank silt, land leveling and weed clearance were carried out to improve the productivity of the land and to bring the land under productivity. Under this project 41 farmers had supported for the silt application, 44 farmers had supported for weed removal and 44 farmers supported for land leveling. The importance of tank silt helps in improving soil health by changing the physical and chemical properties, which helps to increase the microorganisms and moisture retention which led in creating the dual benefits for the farmers. Silt excavation increases the water storage capacity of the tank and application of silt helps to farm production. Under the project, DHAN Foundation organized three insurance literacy programme in Pudur, Ottapidaram and Vilathikulam blocks. The status of insurance at three block level under the Aam Admi Bhima Yojana had achieved of 921 households. The benefit of this program is that the farmers has to pay a premium of Rs.100 per annum and if in any case of death of insured, the disease or any severe health issues the family members can avail Rs.30,000 in the case of death and Rs.75000 in the case of accidental death. It is applicable only for the poor and vulnerable households. Under the project, fish rearing was also given a priority in supplying nutrient rich food to the entire community. During the first year of the project fish rearing activities was taken- up 7 villages. Overall the project in this one year, the total beneficiaries of households we could touch the lives of the farmers and community is 4268 households.

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Project period of 2015-16 The project title is “Livelihood enhancement through Natural Resources Conservation and Development in Tuticorin District, Tamil Nadu”.

Plan for 2015-16 to achieve the project objectives:  To identify new villages considering the water scarcity in the area and willingness of the community to form association and need for the renovation.  To promote agriculture finance groups and mobilize the group on savings and provide credit to the individuals.  To renovate the village pond for accessibility in the usage of drinking water, for livestock and for irrigation purposes. Budget & expenditure of the Project period (2015-16) and brief highlight of the outcome:

Budget Funded 1st Payment 2nd payment 3rd Payment Expenditures approval by Rs.44,71,750 BPCL Rs.8,94,350 Rs.22,35,875 Rs.8,94,350 Rs.40,24,575 Balance Rs. 447175 Outcome  21 villages were promoted for level associations.  44 agriculture finance groups.  3 farm ponds.  Six units of fish rearing.  4751 household beneficiaries.

The identification of newly 28 villages who are willing to work together with the organization and for the community. In most of the villages selected have hard clays, which cannot be excavated using labors therefore 21 villages were identified for early work to start by leveling the area. Name of the villages are:  Kuthiraikulam  K.Duraisamypuram  Sakkammalpuram  Jambulingapuram  Kovil Kumarettayapuram  Sivagnanapuram  Keelamangalam  Kandhasamypuram  Namasivayapuram  Kumaraettiyapuram  Chennampatti  K.Kumareddiyapuram  Keelamangalam  P.Venkateswarapuram  Kamalapuram  Kappikulam  Sethupuram  Velidupatti  Maniyakaranpatti  Pudur 

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Outcome of the project Through DHAN Foundation the villages could organized the members of Vayalagam into groups to seed mutuality, facilitate investment on agriculture activity and promote collection action. During this period, 55 agriculture finance groups and organized 945 households against the plan to promote 40 groups. Members were organized into groups to involve in saving, credit and insurance activities on a monthly basis. The saving mobilized at the group level is given as loan to the individual members depending upon the financial needs. In tuticorin district, drinking bore wells are drilled around the village pond, as the ponds are the only source for fresh drinking water. Even the hand pumps are erected around the water bodies as they recharge the ground water. The rural settlement highly depends on village pond and water availability. In this period, 12 village ponds were renovated so that it can stored additional water in the pond till next monsoon. As part of the renovation, bunds around the pond were also strengthened. In the farm ponds it can store up 450 to 600 cubic meters of water to irrigate about one acre of land. The utility of farm pond increases depending upon number of fillings. During the financial year 2015-16, three farm ponds were established against the plan of establishing 9 farm ponds while in the proposal 50 farm ponds were proposed to complete till date 12 farm ponds have completed. All the farm ponds are dugged to the extent to 1.5 to 2 meter depth to reduce the impact pf evaporation. During the late monsoon season the farmers had proposed for the sapling trees of guava, pomegranate, gooseberry, mango, sapotta, coconut, albizia iebbeck, pongamia, tamarind and neem. The farmers were given sapling trees to plant in their farm. There were 665 sapling trees that were planted in their farm. There were 54 farmers who have benefited. The DHAN Foundation had evaluated the farm ponds on the quantity of water, utility of pond and turbidity level was assessed during the visit of the organization at the site. There are six unit activities of fish rearing was given. The ponds where the fish rearing activitiy was introduced had 4 to 10 feet depth of water which was sufficient for the growth of the fishes.

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Project period of 2016-17 The project title is “Livelihood enhancement through Natural Resources Conservation and Development in Tuticorin District, Tamil Nadu”.

Plan for 2016-2017 to achieve the project objectives: 1. To promote community-led natural resource management by building 25 community owned organization for their year 2. To renovate and create 35 water bodies (tank-6, OOrani-19 and farm pond-10) for achieving water security by harvesting rainwater and food production. 3. To enable 85 farmers to generate and improve income out of farming. 4. To improve water productivity and knowledge on risk transfer measures.

Budget & expenditure during the period of 2016-17 The following is the budget & expenditure during the period of 2016-17 and highlights of the outcome.

Budget Funded 1st Payment 2nd 3rd Payment Expenditures approval by payment

Rs.53,23,620 BPCL Rs.10,64,724 Rs.1863267 Rs.18,63,267 Rs. 47,91,258 Balance Rs.5,32,362 Outcome  The project directly addresses this issues of renovation and continuous maintenance by established people organizations around the water bodies.  In the third year of the project, 26 vayalagams, village level water body association by organizing 2514 beneficiaries of tanks and ponds in 26 villages.  While in the planned 35 villages were approached in which 26 villages had promoted with 6 tank level associations and remaining 20 pond level association.

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Name of the villages falling under the four blocks of Pudur, Kayathar and Ottapidaram and Vilathikulam: 1. L.Venkateswarapuram 2. Muthaiyapuram 3. Keelkallurni 4. Ramasamypuram 5. Kumarachithanpatti 6. Pudhuchinnayapuram 7. Vadakumthiyapuram 8. Subbulapuram 9. Edaichiooarani 10. Chokkalingapuram 11. Rajapudukudi 12. T.N.Kulam 13. Veppankulam 14. Maruthanvazhu 15. Ottanantham 16. Naraikeenaru 17. Sevalkulam 18. Kulasekaranallur 19. Marthandampatti 20. Srivaigundaperumalpuram 21. Muthuramalingapuram 22. S.Arunachalapuram 23. M.Shanmugapuram 24. Vallinayaghipuram 25. Kanthasamipuram 26. Pottalur

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Outcome of the project: under the Tuticorin district had included in the project. The location is 76 kms far away from the main headquarter of Tuticorin district. Under this block there 45 panchayats, 133 villages with 133 Ooranies, 90 Union tanks ans 18 PWD tanks. The major livelihood is agriculture mostly depending more on monsoon season. In this area the main problem is access to clean drinking water so therefore through this project restoring of tanks and developing the economical strengthening through Micro Finance Group (MFG). Conservation and development of the ponds which is helpful to extend the store more water and duration of water availability. In irrigation tanks, renovation of the tanks supply channel, construction of sluice and deepening of tanks are the activities requested by the community within this year, there are 3 tanks, 18 villages’ ponds and creation of several farm ponds. In the year 2016-17, 12 works have completed in establishing the village ponds- 2 tanks, 9 ooranies and 9 farm ponds. In the identification or irrigation tanks for renovation that will help farmers to store the rain water for irrigation had executed three tanks works like sluice, diversion box and desilting and deepening of tank water spread areas. Impact of the tanks for the community: 1. The tank fertile silt was applied in 172 acres of agriculture land to increase the fertility of soil 2. Ensuring firs crop like vegetables and paddy in tank command area 3. 5 water storage increased 10230cum volume, 383 farmer numbers and reaching 133.20 hectares of land. Village pond is one of the sources of drinking water to this community because there is no alternate source to get drinking water and in some areas to bought bottled drinking water. In the second year of the project, 17 village ponds renovation work was pending and in this year the DHAN Foundation with the community had completed the work. In the district, the main occupation is agriculture and mostly rain fed farming depending more on rainfall. In the year 2015-16 seven farming ponds were pending in which in the third year of the project it could renovate and help in irrigation. Three activities was taken up to improve their income from agriculture through tank silt application, converting fallow and to cultivable and land leveling in which 85 farmers had benefited. Shiramadhan work was also used to strengthen the community, the organization had organized in 9 village ponds and 419 man had come forward to work. During this period, 42 farmers were able to assist in clearing the jungle in their 27 acres of fallow land. The land will be to cultivate of rainfall crop like maize and black gram during the coming monsoon. 30 farmers had carried out with the land leveling by removing the dense bushes, undulations in the fields. In this process, BPCL had funded half of the cost and 50% of the cost is bear by the individual. Per individual they have spent Rs.2500/-. From the above achievement, the DHAN Foundation had focus to achieve other agriculture intervention on assisting in:

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 Agriculture credit support was given to four AFGs linking them to banks, providing fertilizers, distribution of black gram seeds and increase in the production of chilies.  People were aware of the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana through village campaign and other activities. 1985 farmers were covered under this scheme in which farmers where given the knowledge on the production of maize, black gram, sunflower, green gram, sorghum, cotton, rice and cumbu.  380 farmers were covered under the scheme of AamAdmiBhima Yojana and financially poor family school students received scholarship. The total beneficiaries are 38 students.

Madurai

The Government of India, through its Swachh Bharat” Clean India’ Mission has proposed a multi- stakeholder initiative focussing on cleaning up of 100 places across the country that are “Iconic” due to their heritage and/or cultural significance. As a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary in 2019, the goal of the initiative is to improve the cleanliness conditions of these places to the extent that they can be regarded as “Swachh Tourist Destinations”. The initiative is being co-ordinated by the Ministry of Drinking Water & Sanitation in close co-ordination with other key ministries including the MOP&NG. As decided by the Government, the cleanliness and upkeep of important places of Tourist/ religious interest shall be earmarked to the PSUs for maintenance and upkeep, under the ambitious ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan”. As a part of this initiative of the Govt. the historic and Iconic site – Madurai Meenakshi Temple, Tamil Nadu has been selected as one of the 10 Iconic Places to be covered through this initiative. BPCL has taken up this project in Madurai as part of its CSR initiatives in partnership with the Corporation of Madurai. The project is ongoing and will be completed by the end of the FY 2017-18.

5. Details of Fire fighting Facility already setup at Terminal Fire Fighting System is consisting of Automatic sprinkler system provided in all LPG handling areas/sheds covered with network of hydrants & monitors as per requirement of OISD-144. Entire plant area is also covered with hydrant lines which will have fire hydrants, long range monitors and deluge valves at strategic locations as per OISD-144 norms. The plant is having fire water storage of 5400 KL water tanks sufficient for 4 hr firefighting

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All the LPG handling areas are covered with water spray system which automatically activates in case of any fire. Additionally DCP/CO2 fire extinguishers are strategically placed throughout the plant area.

Fire water pumps -2 Nos with Capacity of 913 cum/hr each

- Jockey water pumps - 2 Nos. Capacity of 30 cum/hr each

- Ring main hydrant line with fire hydrants & monitors network

Facilities : Fire Alarm Panel PLC Based - 1 Nos Deluge Valves - 14 Nos Manual Call Points (MCP) - 16 Nos Emergency Shut Down (ESD) - 7 Nos Fire Monitors - 24 Nos Fire hydrants (Double) - 22 Nos Gas Monitoring Sensors - 36 Nos DCP Fire Extinguishers (9 Kg) - 84 Nos DCP Fire Extinguishers (5 Kg) - 20Nos DCP Fire Extinguishers (75 Kg) - 8Nos CO2 Extinguishers - 10Nos Low Temperature Suit - 2 Nos Fire proximity Suit - 1 No Self Contained Breathing Apparatus - 1 Set Water Jel Blanket - 2Nos Portable Gas Detectors (Explosivemeter) - 2 Nos

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DELUGE SYSTEM

A Deluge System is a fixed fire protection system in which the pipe system is empty until the deluge valve operates to distribute pressurized water from open nozzles or sprinklers.

DELUGE VALVE

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The top chamber of the deluge valve is connected to water inlet side of actuator. When there is an air pressure drop, or due to release of air by any of the release device on detection of fire, the diaphragm of actuator is lifted and allows the water to drain. This releases the water pressure in the top chamber of the deluge valve, allowing the deluge valve flapper to open and water to flow into the system piping.

DV is operated on following situations.

 Due to fire QB is broken and air is released.  Operating DV push button so that solenoid valve is opened and air is released.  Air is released through a valve manually.( Local operation)  DVs are operated from DV panel (solenoid valve is turned on). (Remote operation) In above cases except for manual release, adjacent DVs are also actuated. Quartzoid Bulb (QB) QBs are designed to blow at 79oC . The QBs are connected to a compressed air pipeline network. When these QBs are broken due to fire air is released from pipelines and actuates deluge valve.

QB

Once DV is operated by any method mentioned above it,  Activates sprinkler  Activates siren  Starts Fire Water Engine  Shuts of LPG transfer (Pumps/Compressor/ROVs/Carousel)  Indication& Hooter in DV logic panel

Once DV is operated pressurized water is distributed through sprinklers at respective area. In this plant there are 27 Auto reset type DVs among which 6 (Newly installed) are having manual quick bypass.

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Medium velocity sprinkler system is used in the plant. Medium velocity sprayers discharge a water spray of finely divided droplets at medium velocity. The fine spray has a high heat absorption rate so medium velocity sprayers are an effective method of protecting adjacent plant and structures from heat during a fire by providing a continuous cooling spray over the exposed surfaces. Keeping nearby equipment cool minimizes damage and reduces the risk of explosion. The fine spray also works to dilute and disperse flammable vapours. The sprayers use an external deflector to achieve the desired discharge angle and spray characteristics.

SPRINKLER NOZZLE

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Fig: Fire engines installed in the Plant

Fig: Jockey pumps for maintaining required pressure in the fire water line

6. CTE/CTO from TNPCB The initial consent order to establish the plant is attached for your reference. Since then it has been renewed annually and the final renewal of consent is also attached. Annexure-4

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