Pre-Feasibility Cum Environmental Status Report for Modernisation, Balancing & Expansion Program at Orient Paper Mills
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PRE-FEASIBILITY CUM ENVIRONMENTAL STATUS REPORT
MODERNISATION, BALANCING,
& EXPANSION PROGRAM
ORIENT PAPER MILLS
P.O. AMLAI PAPER MILLS
DISTT. SHAHDOL,
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Environmental Initiatives & Programmes
Awards & Recognition
Orient Paper Mills- A Brief Profile
The Existing Plant – Brief Details
Plant Site
Plant & Equipments
Manufacturing Process
Requirement & Availability of Raw Materials & Chemicals
Requirement & Availability of Utilities
Wastewater Generation, treatment & disposal
3.6.1
Process wastewater treatment & disposal system
3.6.2
Domestic wastewater treatment & disposal system
Air Pollution Control
Solid Waste generation & disposal
Cost of Existing Pollution control facilities
Prevailing pollution control norms
The Proposed Modernization, Balancing & Expansion Programme
Objectives of Proposed Modernization, Balancing & Expansion Programme
Specifications & cost of the plant & equipments
Means of Financing
Cost of relief & rehabilitation programmes
Compensation/cost to be paid towards the land
Occupation Health expenses, social welfare activities plan & expenses
Cost of Environmental protection measures
Availability of Resources
Availability of markets
Possible threats from natural calamities etc.
Project profitability
Project Schedule
Environmental Performance of the mill on completion of the project
Improvement in specific consumption of major inputs
Improvement in wastewater characteristics
Air emissions
Solid waste management
ANNEXURES
Annx.1: Lay out Plan
Annx.2: Process Flow Sheet
Annx.3: ETP Flow sheet
Annx.4: Project profitability
Annx.5: Bar Charts for Project Schedule
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.0 INTRODUCTION:
One of the major issues of public debate is the balance between industrialisation and economic growth on one hand and environmental regulation and pollution control on the other. On one hand, industrialisation resulted in raising the standard of living, employment & infrastructure development and on the other; it has played havoc with the state of our natural resources. Most of the cities and rural areas in the vicinity of an industry suffer from air pollution and majority of the rivers, big or small are polluted due to the industrial effluent discharge. Some of the long-term adverse environmental impacts of industrialisation are only now coming to light, with the changing emphasis on research in environment and pollution control. There is a need to harmonise developmental activities with the environmental concerns.
It is now universally recognised that the development has to be sustainable. For this purpose, a regulatory framework has been laid down by the Govt. of India with specific guidelines for siting of the industries and assessment of the environmental impacts of the industrial projects. These guidelines have been further revised in September 2006.
In addition, the Central Pollution Control Board, based on the industry-specific interaction meetings, evolved a Charter on Corporate Responsibility for Environmental Protection (CREP), listing out time-bound action points in respect of 17 highly-polluting categories of industries including the pulp & Paper sector, for progressive up-gradation of technologies and in-plant practices for reduction of effluents and emissions as well as improvement in waste management systems. The implementation of CREP is being regulated by the State Pollution Control Board.
It is also being increasingly realized that a purely regulatory approach to tackle environmental pollution has serious limitations and this needs to be supplemented by a greater awareness and commitment on the part of the industry to manufacture the products in an environmentally acceptable and sound manner under the overall objective of sustainable development.
The Orient Paper Mill, set up on the west bank of river Sone at Village Amlai in Shahdol District in Madhya Pradesh in the year 1965 has, over the years, taken steps to gradually improve its environmental performance comparable to the best in the industry. To this end, the mill has invested in plant upgradation to comply with the CREP. In addition, a modest program for modernization, balancing, expansion of its production facilities has now been undertaken, brief details of which have been provided subsequently in this report.
The company has taken the following initiatives to improve the environmental performance: