HINDUSTAN ZINC AWARDED FOR SOLAR INNOVATION & EXCELLENCE

Hindustan Zinc received Solar Innovation & Excellence Award at the 2nd Annual Conference-Expo-Awards - Roadmap for Innovations in Solar Energy 2017 (RISE 2017) for 12 MW Debari Solar Project.

The award was presented by Mr. Ashwin kumar Khatri, Director General of Mission Energy Foundation in a glittering function held in Delhi on 21^st July 2017. On behalf of Hindustan Zinc, Mr. Vishnu Khandelwal, Team Lead - Renewable & CDM and Mr. R L Sharma, Electrical Head - Zinc Smelter Debari received the award.

Hindustan Zinc awarded SEEM National Energy Management Award 2016

Energy efficiency has always been one of the top priorities for Hindustan Zinc.

In recognition of these efforts, Hindustan Zinc’s DSC CPP won SEEM National Energy Management Award 2016 under Power Plant Industries Category for implementation of various power saving projects for reducing the specific energy consumption. The Award was given by  Mr. K.K. Chakraborthy - Energy Economist and Dr. Jayant Sathaye - 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Winning team member, University  of California, Berkeley in a glittering award ceremony held on 26th May 2017 at Ahmedabad Management Association (AMA) Hall, Ahmedabad. 

Hindustan Zinc has Thermal Captive Power Plants located at Chanderiya, Dariba and Zawar with a total power generation capacity of 474 MW.The Company has green energy farms with 274 MW of power generation capacity in Gujarat, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra.  Mr. A.K. Singh - General Manager, CPP and Mr. Rupak Sarkar - Associate Manager, CPP  from DSC CPP received the Award on behalf of Hindustan Zinc. 

H/E PRESIDENT OF INDIA HONOURS MR. LAXMAN SHEKHAWAT WITH NATIONAL GEOSCIENCE AWARD -2016

Mr. Laxman Shekhawat  - COO Mines, Hindustan Zinc has been awarded with National Geoscience Award - 2016 by Hon’ble President of India – Mr. Pranab Mukherjee on 12th April, 2017 at Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi. Also present were Hon'ble Minister of State (IC) for Mines, Coal, Power and New & Renewable Energy, Govt. of India - Mr. Piyush Goyal, senior govt. officials and mining professionals across India during the award ceremony.

The award constituted by Ministry of Mines recognizes his contribution in the field of Mining Technology for adopting new methods & technology, conservation of mineral resources, systematic mine planning, mine safety, mine fires & hazards, mine reclamation & rehabilitation.