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.

Expansion of Induction Furnace & Rolling Mill of M/s Hindupur Steel and Alloys Pvt. Ltd

M/s. Hindupur Steel & Alloys Private Limited have an existing Induction Furnace, 30,000 TPA of Rolling Mill & 6000 m3 /hr capacity of producer Gas plant at Plot No. 29, APIIC Gollapuram Industrial park (Phase - 3), Gollapuram Village, Hindupur Mandal, Anantapur District, Andhra Pradesh. Now the PAs proposed to expand Induction Furnace along with CCM for making additional 70,000 TPA of Billets / M.S. Ingots & Rolling mill for making additional 70,000 TPA of TMT bars / structural steel. The proposed expansion will be established in the existing plant premises only.

Total land in possession of management is 10 Acres. The land is acquired from APIIC. Proposed expansion will be taken up in the existing plant premises only. No forest land is involved. PAs have confirmed that the plant is not located within 10 km of critically polluted area. No National Park / wildlife sanctuary is located within 10 km. Nearest village is Gollapuram situated at a distance of 1.5 Kms. from the plant. No litigation or court case is in pending against the project and/or land. Total cost of the project is Rs. 24.15 Crores. Rs. 2.24 Crores and Rs. 10 lakhs / annum will be earmarked towards capital cost and recurring cost for environmental pollution control measures. Due to the proposed expansion about 60 people will get direct employment opportunity and about 100 will get indirect employment opportunity. Out of 10 acres, green belt will be developed in 3.3 acres.  

The proposed expansion project requires about 95 cum/day of water. Water required for the proposed expansion project will be supplied by APIIC. Closed circuit water system will be provided in the, Induction Furnaces, Rolling mill. Hence there will not be any waste water generation from process and cooling. Domestic effluent will be treated in septic tank followed by soak pit. No effluent will be discharged outside the premises and Zero discharge will be adopted. Rain water Storage sump is already constructed to store the Rain water. Power requirement will be sourced from State Grid. DG sets is being / will be operated only during Power Failure.

Public Hearing was conducted by the A.P. Pollution Control Board on 30th December 2014. The main issues raised in the public hearing meeting were developing of local area, providing employment, pollution control, Development of Greenbelt and Medical camps etc.  

Air Quality Index? What It Means? detailed Here

Prime minister Narendra Modi launched the initiative on Monday, the idea behind the launch is those who wish to know the level of air pollution in their neighborhood will now able to get the data at the click of a mouse, also the online data is for people to change the lifestyle by looking at the Air Quality Index of their neighborhood.

Everyday the data will be available in site for pollutants like Sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide with their Minimum, maximum and average levels. In coming days other pollutants will be listed.

Air Quality Index Monitoring is available at Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Telengana, Tamil Nadu, Haryana, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh,

Air Quality Index can be viewed by the below link.

Air Quality Index

AP CM Chandrababu Naidu at ground breaking ceremony in sricity.

Exclusive picture of Andra Pradesh Cheif Minister Mr. Chandrababu Naidu at ground braking ceremony in Sri city - SEZ.