Judicious and scientific planning of direct excavation, waste dumping and siting
infrastructural areas.
Restricting use of forest lands to the barest minimum level.
Constructing ameliorative measures like buttress walls, contour trenching, biological
reclamation of mined out areas and waste dumps, etc. to minimise land erosion.
Construction of check dams, tailings dams, ETP for treating effluents from service
centres, Autoshops, etc to avoid water pollution.
Regular water sprinkling and grading of haul roads, scientific afforestation for
abating air pollution.
Regular maintenance of HEMM and Plant equipments and good house keeping to reduce
noise pollution.
Create green belts, densify open lands, good arboriculture and avenue plantation
practices for improving the overall Importance value index of the region and also
to eradicate effects of visual intrusion.
Monitor all environmental parameters on regular basis following the statutory acts
and their amendments of the GOI viz.,
Preparation and timely submission of six-monthly reports to MOEF regional offices
and annual environmental audit reports to respective state pollution control boards.
Creating environment awareness amongst the employees and the local population through
celebration of Mine Environment & Mineral Conservation (MEMC) week under the aegis
of Indian Bureau of Mines & World Environment Day on 5th of June every year.
Training employees for environmental consciousness.
Undertake Peripheral village community development works like improving roads, constructing
school buildings, community halls, distributing books and stationery, extending
schooling and medical facilities available in the project townships to the local
people as well.
Providing safe drinking water to the township dwellers and extending water supply
to population of neighbouring villages.
Obtaining Consents for establishment and operation of mines/plants from respective
state pollution control boards.
Obtaining environmental clearances for new/ expansion projects.
Obtaining forest land clearances for renewal/ fresh grant of mining leases.
Massive afforesation drive.
Mined out area to an extent of 16.18Ha has been stablize at Donimalai project by
tree plantation.
About 27Ha of old passive waste rock dumps have also been staiblize by tree plantation
at Donimalai, Biladila. 14 iron ore mine and Panna diamond mine.
During the last 8 years desiliting operations of Kirandul nala and Kadampal tailing
dam by mechanized means are undertaken to keep the surface water problem under control
at Bailadila Deposit-14/11c project.
Eletricity is generated and the same is utilized for operation of the Plant while
transporting the crushed ore using a downhill conveyor system passing through a
tunnel at each of the 3 major iron ore production projects at Bailadila Dep-14/11c
Bailadila Dep-5 and Donimalai.
A mine with a production capacity of 25,000 tonnes of magnesite is being planned
at Panthal,J&K MDC, a subsidiary owned by NMDC Ltd. For construction of approach
road to the mine site at hill top with due consideration to control soil erosion,
cross drainage works, protection walls, check dams,breast walls, sidedrains, bridge
with hime pipes facilitating non-scouring velocity of water in the natural streams,
etc. have been constructed at a cost of Rs 177 lakhs.
A silica sand project with a production capacity of 1,500 tonnes per day is being
planned at Lalapur near Allahabad in U.P. We have obtained operating concents from
UPPCB, Lucknow.
As a part of massive afforestation drive, 2351816 saplings have been planted at
all projects of NMDC since inception, covering 60 variety of tree species which
includes local and native species, fast growing species, fruit bearing varieties,
ornamental trees, medicinal plants and certain exotic species. The total area covered
in all the projects is well above 1490Ha. Afforestation would be carried out every
year by planting 1.00 lakh plants and taking care of them for a period of 3 years.
Passive mine out area to an extent of 13.18Ha has been stabilised at Donimalai project
by tree plantation. About 27ha of old passive waste rock dumps have also been stabilised
by tree plantation at Donimalai, Bailadila.14 iron ore mine and Panna diamond mine.
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