{"id":221671,"date":"2023-01-09T19:26:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T13:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=221671"},"modified":"2023-01-09T19:26:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T13:56:04","slug":"west-bengal-gets-its-first-m-sand-facility-through-cils-green-mining-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/west-bengal-gets-its-first-m-sand-facility-through-cils-green-mining-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bengal gets its first M sand facility through CIL\u2019s green mining initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article <strong>\u201cWest Bengal gets its first M sand facility through CIL\u2019s green mining initiative\u201d <\/strong>published in <b>The Hindu <\/b>on <b>9th January 2023<\/b>.<\/p>\n<h5>What is the News?<\/h5>\n<p>Coal India Limited (CIL) has started a facility in West Bengal to produce manufactured sand. With the West Bengal facility, the CIL\u2019s total M Sand producing capacity stands at 9.86 lakh cubic metres per year.<\/p>\n<h5>What is Manufactured Sand(M-Sand) and what are its applications<\/h5>\n<p>Sand is one of the major geological resources of the country and M sand is a form of artificial sand manufactured by crushing large hard stones into fine particles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Benefits of M-sand<\/strong>: <strong>a)<\/strong> Conversion of overburdened material into sand is a step to ensure environmental sustainability, <strong>b)<\/strong> It will ensure the sustainability of sand, particularly when illegal mining from riverbeds and riverbanks has adverse effects on river morphology, <strong>c)<\/strong> It does not contain organic and soluble compounds that affect the setting time and properties of cement, thus the required strength of concrete can be maintained, and <strong>d)<\/strong>\u00a0It can be dust-free and the sizes of m-sand can be controlled easily so that it meets the required grading for the given construction.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read here: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/m-sand-policy-a-policy-to-promote-manufactured-sand\/\">\u201cM-Sand Policy\u201d a policy to promote manufactured sand<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cWest Bengal gets its first M sand facility through CIL\u2019s green mining initiative\u201d published in The Hindu on 9th January 2023. What is the News? Coal India Limited (CIL) has started a facility in West Bengal to produce manufactured sand. With the West Bengal facility, the CIL\u2019s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/west-bengal-gets-its-first-m-sand-facility-through-cils-green-mining-initiative\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">West Bengal gets its first M sand facility through CIL\u2019s green mining initiative<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-221671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}