Bhubaneswar: Environmental clearance (EC) of the captive Jetty with 52 MTPA handling capacity for the JSW Utkal Steel Ltd (JUSL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of JSW Steel Ltd, has arrived from the Union Ministry of Environment & Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC).
Total cost of the all-weather, multi cargo, greenfield Captive Jetty with handling capacity of 52 MTPA project is Rs. 2104 Crore. The project is proposed along the waterfront of the Jatadhari Muhan river and in the coastal waters of Bay of Bengal, east coast of India.
The proposed project is expected to boost revenue for State and Centre in the form of various taxes and duties and there will be 72,000 direct and indirect employment opportunities through various phases of the integrated steel plant project.
JSW is known for its sustainability focus and we have comprehensive plans to take up livelihood improvement at the project site and vicinity through women empowerment, improvement in health, education sector, and overall socio-economic development of the local community, said Ranjan Nayak, COO, JSW Steel Ltd.
This captive Jetty is located adjacent to the steel plant on the bank of Jatadhari River near Jatadhari Muhan and shall cater to the inbound and outbound cargo requirements of the ISP helping it reduce the infrastructure cost for the production of steel.
The 13.2 MTPA crude steel ISP also comprises a captive power plant (CPP) of 900 MW capacity, and cement grinding & mixing unit of 10.0 MTPA. Iron ore for the ISP shall be sourced through slurry pipeline from a 30.0 MTPA Iron Ore Grinding & Desliming Plant proposed in Keonjhar district, Odisha.
The terms of reference (TOR) was granted in October, 2018 and the public hearing (PH) for the proposal was completed successfully by State Pollution Control Board, Odisha (OSPCB) in December 2019, as per the EIA notification 2006.
A key component of achieving energy conservation would be the development of an Energy Management Action Plan. The Energy Management Action Plan would be consistent with the energy conservation measures during both construction and operation phase.
