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FILE NAME: Shree Digvijay (SDV) DATE: 1980 DOC#: SDV014 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Barry Castleman Photos with Notes - Photograph Investigation of Shree Digvijay Cement Co. Barry I. Castleman ENVIRONM ENTAL C O N SU LT A N T / Box 230A Valley Road, Knoxville, Maryland 21758 / 301-834-7787 Photographic Investigation of Shree Digvi.jay Cement Company This plant is in Ahmedabad, India, and was built around 1962, It produces asbestos-cement pipes and sheets, in the amount of around 50,000 tons/year. Exports have been rising, and totaled 39?2 tons in 1977 Johns-ianville has been the source of technical advise from the time of the plant's construction onward. During the years 1962-65, J-v was issued ' ' - roe!; valued -:t l.?5 million rupees (about $2(50,000). J-i. is the sole sellin agent for the company's asbestos products for the .diddle East and Africa. Ly co-worker Bob Bayes notes that, . Eo asbestos products are labeled here. I asked people at both Shree Digviiay and Brake Linings, Ltd., and,they said no. I met a. felloxv who hauls products back and forth from the cement factory into town, and then at the brake lining factory I asked one of the workers. There's no labeling. 1 also went to a dealer here in Delhi who deals ir asbestos products, nothing, no warning labels, and in fact none of these people were aware of any health bssard from asbestos. Lhves' photos taken in January, 1980, show asbestos wastes strewr all around the plant environs, and wastewater pipes discharging almost opaque effluent. Children play on the asbestos dumps, and poor peoole have used waste hunks of asbestos-csmsnt sheet and pipes to build their homes. Referencess Bombay Stock Exchange Diroctory (current and updated monthly) Directory of foreign Collaboration in India (197;f) iebruary 27, 1980