With each passing day,
the National Green Tribunal (NGT) seems to have become more
pro-active as evident from the numerous directives on issues
concerning ecological balance and environmental protection. Scores of
industries have been pulled up for discharging untreated pollutants
and also for emission of toxic substances. Thus numerous preventive
measures have been initiated in bringing down the rate of pollution
in air, water and other sources.
On this score, providers
of systems in material handling for mines in India have a
crucial role to play. Apart from the dust and other allied
pollutants, properly designed and commissioned material handling
systems will also help in loss prevention. They will also enable
proper management of logistics of facilities at the pre-mining stage
as well as the mined ore or excavated matter.
There are companies like
Energo India with its headquarters in Delhi NCR which offer turnkey
services in material handling systems for various projects in mining
like coal washeries, ore/mineral beneficiation plants and dispersal
yards at ports, railway stations and power generation stations, mega
construction project sites, cement, fertiliser and steel factories
among others. The system includes -
- High-speed conveyors
- Material storing facilities
- Rapid and regulated loading onto trucks and wagons for onward transportation
- Modes to arrest and collect Fly Ash at thermal power plants
In the context of
environmental protection, it is interesting to note that this company
is also engaged in solar power plant development in India. It
designs, develops and executes clean and green power generation
stations, better known as solar parks.
On its part, the
Government of India has set up the Solar Energy Corporation of India
(SECI) and it launched an ambitious project named the Jawaharlal
Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM). Earlier this month, it invited
expression of interest (EOI) from private entrepreneurs for the
engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of 2,000 MW of
large-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) plants.