By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: The Union Ministry of Forest and Environment has given environment clearance to the Meghalaya Ferrous Limited for setting up of the ferro alloys plant at Porla village near Nongstoin in West Khasi Hills.
Official sources on Saturday informed that the Union Ministry had given the environment clearance for setting up of this ferro alloy plant on September 21 last.
Meanwhile, official sources informed that the total project cost is Rs. 48.79 crore which includes site development, building, all the plant machinery and its installation and environment protection measures cost.
“Total capital cost for environmental pollution control measures would be Rs 240 lakh. And recurring cost per annum would be Rs 35 lakh” sources said.
The total area required for setting of the project is 12.6034 acre, official sources said.
“The estimated power requirement for the proposed project would be 10 MW.
Since the supply of power at MESEB is uncertain, the project will have a 10 MW Coal & Bio mass based power plant with import-export features, so that the surplus power in case of shutdown of the ferro alloys unit can be sold to the grid” official sources said.
If there is any shortfall in generation of power for any reason whatsoever , the power will be drawn from the MESEB grid.
Sources also informed that for the proposed captive power plant 41,250 MT per year of Coal would be required which would be sourced from Nongstoin.