Environmental Clearance of Expansion of Cement Grinding Unit (Click here)
To feed the required limestone to our cements plants, we hold four mining leases at Ahirpura, Maliakhera, Karunda and Tilakhera where mining is carried out using deep hole drilling and blasting. But a lot of care has been taken to negate the ill effects of this ecology affecting activity.
To begin with, we have converted the dry drilling into wet drilling, water is sprinkled on the haul roads, dense plantation has been cultivated around the working pit, Sequential Blasting Machine and down the hole delay are being used to reduce noise, vibration and fly rock. Water is kept stored in the forth bench for use during summer as it also helps recharge the ground water table.
Afforestation is carried out at all the four mines as a part of the mining process. Till date, a total of 2,85,396 plants have been planted covering a total area of over 65 hectares. Necessary arrangement for watering these plants, ensuring their survival, has also been done in the form of construction of 6 water tanks combined with the facilitation of direct water supply pipelines and water tankers.
We have also focussed on the Waste Dump Management. The generation of waste material along with mining of limestone at all our mines, is almost negligible. However, some waste like Interstitial Clay, when generated, is excavated separately and dumped at the specified places. These waste dumps are being properly levelled which are then covered with black cotton soil scraped from other parts of the pit only. This forms the bed for plantation or afforestation. The height of the dumps are kept only 5 to 6 mtrs. So that there will be no chance of destabilising of these dumps after plantation in the long run.
Besides, JK Organisation, is also involved in setting up a number of Primary Schools, Secondary Schools, Industrial Training Institutes, Institutes of Management & Research, Institute of Medicine, Institute of Cardiology, Institute of Radiology & Cancer Research and Dr. Gaur Hari Singhania Academy of Productivity Science & Environmental Engineering.