Cement

Environment

An Environment Management Cell has been constituted to undertake environment protection measures and for development of all environmental aspects. For environmental sustainability, nearly 6-12% of operational cost is incurred in these measures which includes maintenance and modification of Pollution Control equipments, hiring of professional consultants for various environmental studies, maintenance of sewage treatment plant, environmental works at mines and cost of plantation at plant & mines.

Plantation

A massive afforestation drive in Mines, Plants & Township areas and along road is undertaken to improve overall environment and as a safeguard against pollution. The plant species have been chosen as per soil quality and native grown plant. With a dedicated team of professional horticulturist, optimum survival rate of 75% to 80% have been achieved. 4,57,571 trees (including 217389 in Mines area) have already been planted.

Water Conservation

Being dry cement manufacturing process based plant having modern air pollution control equipment there is no effluent from the plants and it comply with zero discharge principle. However, the entire domestic sewage and waste water is treated at Sewage Treatment Plant of 650 KL/day capacity and treated water is used in horticulture and dust suppression.

Every drop of rain water is conserved in the plant by garland canal and diverted into reservoir situated in Mines. Three Rain Water harvesting structures covering nearly 47.0 hectares have been developed in Mines area. These reservoirs with a capacity of 26.15 lac M3 water have created a positive impact on the ground water level of adjoining villages by increasing water table of surrounding wells, etc.

Ecological Balance

The reclamation and rehabilitation of mined area is a continuous process in Jaiprakash Associates Limited. The hard overburden generated is used to back-fill the area with good topsoil and area is rehabilitated in planned way by adopting large scale afforestation.