Fly Ash brick a most Environment friendly cost effective construction material

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 India during 2022 had 236 GW capacity of Thermal power in the country out of which 59 % was coal based and rest Gas and Diesel. One of the problem country faced in the field of Environment Conservation was the disposal of Fly Ash produced by the Thermal Plants and the huge loss of soil and pollution by the ever increasing brick klin factories. As India' population and buissness is growing so is construction activities and requirements of bricks. 

During my tenure in the Ministry of Envitonment, Forest and Climate Change in early 2004 I visited the NTFP Dadri plant and was shown the Fly Ash bricks made by them on experimental basis. I learned that these bricks are of excellent qualities on strength as well as engineering aspects. 

During my visit to cities I have been seeing mushrooming of brick kiln factories all over and noticing environmental damaged caused by these kilns. In one of my visit to a Tribal block in Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh I incidentally knocked at the electricity post manufacturing factory of my friend Mr Sharad Vegad's family in 2020.  Mr Shard Vegad is an Engineer and Son of famous Artist Mr Amrit Lal Vegad. He was discussing about upscaling of the factory and was proposing to establish a Fly Ash brick manufacturing factory. I immediately supported this idea and continued to discuss and monitor the progress. In February 2022 I inaugurated this factory situated around 20 km from Jabalpur. The quality of bricks was very good from very beginning. 

Recently on 24th April 2023 I again went to see the work and to assess it's environmental value. The original size of daily  production is 300 cum, which is now 400 cum daily and in next few months will cross to 500 cum daily making it the largest Fly Ash factory in Madhya Pradesh. Around 18 to 20 crore investment is needed in one such factory. It employees around 120 local people daily of which 30 employees are permanent. The monthly expenses on salary is around 12 lakh. The Fly Ash is being sourced from Thermal power plant from Jhabua. The turn over during past one year has been to the tune of 12 crore which likely to go up to 36 crore soon. 

The videos attached here give the sequence of Fly Ash brick manufacturing technology. Please do watch and promote Fly Ash bricks. The state and centre governments need to promote only Fly Ash brick in those areas where Thermal power plants are located and also promote elsewhere also. It has benefits of reduction of house and building construction cost upto 20 % as it saves cement mortar as the size of the brick is large compared to traditional soil brick. Fly Ash is freely available from Thermal Plants and the cost of each brick compated with the same size of traditional brickd is around Rs 6.90. It is almost the same. Now the researchers must come forward to assess the environmental benefits and Climate benefits. 

I would like to request the Prime Minister and Environment Minister of government of India to bring a policy for promotion of Fly Ash bricks and incentavise setting up of such factories near the Thermal Plants. CSIR should also spent time and resources on such environmental friendly green technologies specially to create technologies for those industries where less Fly Ash is generated to create local micro small scale industries. 

After this article is posted in Facebook I will upload the videos showing the entire process of Fly Ash bricks in Facebook because the edit menu does not appear in the screen. 

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