Executive summary of EIA report of Koira Iron mine of Essel Mining & Industries Ltd. at Sundergarh Dist, Orissa

Introducition:
 
Essel Mining & Industries Ltd. (EMIL), a company of Aditya Birla Group is operating Koira Iron mine spreading over an area of 90.143 ha falling under the jurisdiction of Koira, Nuagaon, Kadodihi & Harischandrapur Villages, Koira Tehsil, Sundergarh District, Odisha.

Project Detail:
 
EMIL proposes to increase the Iron ore production from 1.5 to 4.0 MTPA by adopting fully mechanized mining methodology at a project cost of Rs 50 Crores.
 
EIA Study:
 
As part of Environmental Impact Assessment study, baseline environmental monitoring was carried out for post monsoon season of 2012 covering the months of September ’12 – November ’12.
 
EMIL as a corporate policy has been continuously monitoring the baseline status. Data pertaining to Post monsoon 2012 for environmental parameters was also collected covering the months of September ’12 – November ’12 and presented this report
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