Assessing the Impact of Flyash on Crop Productivity and Surrounding Environment around Budge-Budge Thermal Power Station, S.24 parganas, West Bengal

  Mousumi Basu

ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF FLYASH ON CROP PRODUCTIVITY AND SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT AROUND BUDGE BUDGE THERMAL POWER STATION, S.24 PARGANAS Mousumi Basu Prafulla Chandra College Email: mousumi_basu_1@yahoo.co.in ABSTRACT: Since the initial planning, the power sector has played an indispensible role in economic development of our nation. Thermal power generation dominates the power sector accounting almost 64 % of total power generation in India. BBGS is situated on the western bank of river Hooghly near Budge Budge railway station. It lies in Pujali Municipality of Budge Budge-I block of Alipur subdivision, S.24 Parganas district. This power station is operated by Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation (CESC), having three units of total 750 MW capacities. This paper seeks to assess the impact of fly ash generated by BudgeBudge Thermal Power Station (BBGS )on the surrounding environment and also to analyse the imapact of fly ash on crop productivity in and around BudgeBudge Thermal Power Station. Satellite image (Resourcesat-2; LISS-3, band 4) is used to identify the location and various statistical methods are applied to assess the impact of fly ash. Recent land use map of BBGS and its surrounding area shows changing land use characteristic of this region. BBGS acquired area was formerly covered by ‘hogla’ forest and paddy fields. Often BBGS dumps fly ash on the adjoining farm land and often pump their ash slurry directly into the nearby river. As a result soil is getting contaminated and climate is being polluted by various hazardous gases. Some remedial steps have already been taken by the authority of power plant to minimize the negative impact of fly ash. It can be concluded that BBGS can play a positive role in regional planning if proper management is being taken. Key words: BBGS, Fly ash, PM, TSS, ash slurry

Keywords- BBGS,FA,PM,TSS

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1704154
Page Number(s) - 940-948
Pubished in - Volume 5 | Issue 4 | November 2017
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -   
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Mousumi Basu,   "Assessing the Impact of Flyash on Crop Productivity and Surrounding Environment around Budge-Budge Thermal Power Station, S.24 parganas, West Bengal", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.5, Issue 4, pp.940-948, November 2017, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1704154.pdf