Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
We got off the train at Abu Road station in Rajasthan to visit two cement plants located in the nearby district of Sirohi. The drive was predictable - dry stretches interspersed with marginal agriculture and signs of livestock grazing. But I was keenly waiting for signs of the trees covered …
What goes into making cement? The obvious answer is: limestone, which makes up approximately 94-95 per cent of Ordinary Portland Cement. But cement is more accommodating: the Bureau of Indian Standards says flyash can comprise up to 35 per cent of cement, and blast furnace slag (bfs)
Fly ash is generated as waste in thermal power plants that run on coal. An ideal use for fly ash is in making Portland Pozzolana Cement (ppc). Though cement companies are producing ppc , the market appears to be biased against it. Why? Because the predominantly used Ordinary Portland Cement …
What are the key factors to consider while buying cement? Quality and strength. Strength is the main criterion for classifying cement. This is defined for 1 day, 3 days, 7 days and finally 28 days. It is the strength after 28 days that is most important. For instance, a new …
it is cheaper, elegantly uses waste from power plants, is less of a drain on scarce natural resources and has better resistance to cracks: cement with fly ash. But the Indian consumer doesn't like it. Companies manufacturing Portland Pozzolana Cement complain consumers prefer ordinary cement (with high compressive strength) for …
Concrete Facts is the result of an exhaustive two year effort to rate the cement industry. It details the industry's ecological challenges and rates how well Indian companies address them. Companies are benchmarked against global best practices at each stage of the life cycle - from mining to use of …
White Asbestos The asbestos cement industry is back on the sly with its misinformation campaign. On July 15, 2003, The Indian Express and The Financial Express carried full-page "special features' trying vainly to defend the use of white asbestos fibre by the asbestos cement industry in the country. Shockingly the …
Every year Indian thermal power plants (TPPs) spew out 100 million tonnes of flyash, a grey outpour soon expected to reach 175 million tonnes. According to current estimates nearly one lakh hectares (ha) of land in India is taken up by ash ponds. Bad news for the environment. For, most …
India's first ever Charter on Corporate Responsibility for Environmental Protection (crep), unveiled amid much hype on March 13 in New Delhi, has turned out to be just hot air. Predictably, the government has described it as an "excellent
this was a public hearing with a difference. For, the people succeeded in preventing the establishment of a clinker grinding and cement packing plant in Kerala. The experts panel unanimously recommended at the October 24 meeting that environmental clearance should not be granted for the plant. The unit was to …
Not one to be left behind, the cement industry too has launched a similar image building campaign. The Cement Sustainability Initiative (csi) started by the world's 10 largest cement manufacturers has now released a report on their industry's efforts in the field of sustainable development. The agenda of the csi, …
the existence of protected areas in Gujarat is threatened. Cement industries and lime stone quarries have taken their toll on Gir forests. The Marine National Park and sanctuary have suffered due to petroleum processing plants, pipelines and cement manufacturing units. The latest to join the casualty list is the Thol …
protests against waste incineration are sweeping Spain. Highlighting the health risks related to emission of dioxins and furans due to waste incineration, the anti-incineration campaigners expressed their angst outside 12 cement-works and municipal waste incinerators recently. The new wave of concern has emerged due to the recent growth in concentration …
In this paper the authors have estimated for 1990 and 1995 the inventory of greenhouse gases CO2, CH4 and N2O for India at a national and sub-regional district level. The district level estimates are important for improving the national inventories as well as for developing sound mitigation strategies at manageable …
the Gujarat government's move to de-reserve the West Mangrove Reserve Forest ( wmrf ) to facilitate setting up of cement industries has created panic among the fishing community in the Kutch district of Gujarat. A report published by the Thiruvananthapuram-based National Fishworkers' Forum ( nff ) says that the wmrf …
a gujarat high court order, directing the Union government to reconsider the request of Sanghi Industries Limited (sil) for permission to put up a captive jetty in the Khauthar belt in the reserved forests of Kutch, has brought into open many startling facts about the project that has already drawn …
the cement industry has a larger share in global emissions of carbon dioxide ( co 2 ) than that of aircraft worldwide, estimates an industry scientist. It contributes about seven per cent of the global co 2 output. This puts it in the third place in the list of contributors …
a private jetty caught in environmental litigation may receive a fresh lease of life, if a proposed change in the contours of the coastal zonation map for Kutch, Gujarat, sees the light of the day. The jetty is meant for the controversial Rs 664-crore Sanghi Industries cement divison in Kutch. …
THE villagers of Chinchugeria in West Bengal are threatened by silica and gypsum dust released by two different factories. Even as they reel under the shock of the recent loss of 20 lives to silicosis caused by silica dust from the stone-crushing unit Surendra Khanij, they are facing serious health …
