My Home Industries Limited expands his existing cement Plant in AP

My Home Industries Limited have proposed to expand the existing cement plant [Clinker – 2.78 MTPA & Cement – 3.90 MTPA] by addition of new Unit IV [Clinker: 1.75 MTPA and Cement: 1.75 MTPA] at Mellacheruvu Village & Mandal, Nalgonda District, Andhra Pradesh

The water requirement is 800 m3 /day which will be sourced from existing mine pit and ground water. The power requirement is 30 MW which will be met from the existing captive power plant and APCPDCL. Total cost of the project is Rs.355 crores. 5 % of the total project cost i.e Rs 17.70 Crores will be spent as part of Enterprise Social Commitment on the issues raised during PH. The plant and mine has given direct employment to 340 people.

Present water consumption for the plant and colony is 1260 m3 /day. The source of the water is borewells. Additional water requirement for the expansion project will be 800 m3 /day. Permission obtained from Ground Water Department for 1500 m3 /day. Additional 580 m3 /day of water will be met from Mine pit /Ground water. No wastewater is generated from cement plant process. Wastewater generation from the colony will increase by 24 m3 /day. MHIL will install a new STP of 50 m3 /day capacity for handling the additional wastewater generated from the colony.

Public hearing was conducted on 12/11/2014 at MHIL – Line - IV Mellacheruvu . The major issues discussed were pollution and limit damage to environment, to provide Water Harvesting Structures or rain water storage tanks to increase ground water level, green belt with fruit bearing plants, employment training programmes to improve skills, providing air pollution control systems for the proposed plant development of the area and creation of jobs for the unemployed.