HINDUSTAN ZINC WINS INDIA TODAY - SAFAIGIRI AWARDS 2017

Hindustan Zinc has won the India Today Safaigiri Award 2017 under the category of Best Public Private Partnership (PPP) Model for project - Sewage Treatment Plant(STP), built in Udaipur. The award was presented by Hon'ble Vice President of India - Mr. Venkaiah Naidu and Founder & Editor-in-Chief of India Today - Mr. Aroon Purie, in a glittering ceremony held in New Delhi on 2nd October, 2017. The jury of the award were Mr. Shashi Tharoor – MP & Author, Mr. Aroon Purie – Chairman, India Today, Mr. Shubhagato Dasgupta - Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research, Ms. Shilpa Shetty – renowned Actress, Mr. Vinayak Chatterjee - Co-founder, Feedback Infra Private Limited, Mr. T.V. Mohandas Pai – Chairman-Manipal Global Education and Ms. Neerja Birla – Founder and Chairperson-Aditya Birla Education Trust.
Mr. Pavan Kaushik presented the insight on the STP project to the audience which was very well received and the audience understood this project as a model to be replicated by the industries that need water for their operations. He spoke about how the project STP is cleaning lakes and rivers, replacing fresh water with treated water and how this has impacted the overall environment of Udaipur. Hon'ble Vice President also spoke about sustainable models for cleanliness. Hon'ble Prime Minister also sent a message that was read-out during the conference.
On behalf of Hindustan Zinc, the award was received by Mr. Pavan Kaushik - Head Corporate Communication, Mr. T.R. Gupta - AVP, Corporate Affairs and Ms. Devika Gupta - AM Corporate Communication.

HINDUSTAN ZINC BECOMES RAJASTHAN'S FIRST CII -IGBC PLATINUM GREEN BUILDING

Hindustan Zinc rated Platinum Green by CII- IGBC 

Setting benchmark through policy of reduce, recycle, reuse, and reclaim…

Taking cognizance of green initiatives by Hindustan Zinc, CII-Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) awarded Platinum rating to the Company in a ceremony on January 10th, 2017 at Yashad Bhawan- Hindustan Zinc’s Head Office-Udaipur. The award has been constituted by CII-IGBC and the Platinum rating is the highest rating which has been given to the Registered office of Hindustan Zinc at Udaipur popularly known as Yashad (Zinc) Bhawan. Hindustan Zinc is one of the few CII-IGBC Platinum rated buildings in India, the first Company in Rajasthan and also setting the benchmark across other Vedanta companies in India.

The CII-IGBC Platinum Green building certification was presented by Mr. K.S. Venkatagiri - Executive Director, CII Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre, Hyderabad and was received by Mr. Sunil Duggal – CEO, Hindustan Zinc. On this occasion, Mr. Venkatagiri said, “Hindustan Zinc is the 1st building in Rajasthan to receive the Platinum Rating in existing building category and commended to achieve the same in the very 1st attempt. With about 3900 projects built over 3.59 billion sq ft, India’s green building footprint has emerged as the second largest in the world. Hindustan Zinc has set an example for other industries to follow across India.”

While receiving the award, Mr. Duggal said, “Hindustan Zinc aims to make its buildings world class structures with zero carbon and zero waste with an objective to create more and more examples for others to follow and with that the management and the employees are committed for the same”.

CII-IGBC Green Existing Buildings O&M rating system addresses green features under the categories - Site & Facility Management, Water Efficiency, Energy Efficiency, Health & Comfort and Innovation. Corporate office of HZL– ‘Yashad Bhawan’ was awarded with CII - IGBC (Indian Green Building Council) Platinum Rating under IGBC Green Existing Building rating system. Several green features are implemented at HZL to enhance the building performance. The project has achieved energy savings by 27% and water use reduction by 37%. Fresh air ventilation system is integrated with active cooling system to improve indoor air quality, which would enhance occupant comfort. One-site renewable energy of 100 kWp is installed that would generate 1,62,000 units every year. Online energy monitoring system is installed to track the energy performance of the project and would help in identifying energy use by various building component such as lighting, UPS, air-conditioning, exterior lighting usages, etc. water meters are installed at several places to record water usages.

HZL and IGBC would work together to further enhancing the building performance and would play greater role in green building movement led by IGBC.

Hindustan Zinc has developed a lush green belt across its corporate office and residential colony. Hindustan Zinc has already installed solar roof top projects. The Yashad Bhawan, head office of Hindustan Zinc too runs on Solar Power. The Company is also looking to develop solar energy projects in other parts in the State of Rajasthan. Hindustan Zinc has been working progressively towards setting up 115 MW of solar energy projects with an investment of Rs. 630 crores. Hindustan Zinc also has over 1.3 million green plantations across its business locations.

The Company's mining and smelting operations are based on environment friendly technologies that led the plant to conserve water and energy. The operations are working on zero discharge principle and the Company is putting all efforts and research for gainful utilization of waste generated at its mines, smelters and power plants.

Hindustan Zinc has installed Adiabatic Cooling Towers (ACTs), air cooled heat exchangers for minimizing loss of water through evaporation. ACT installation has resulted in overall reduction in usage of water.

The Company has also installed Effluent Treatment Plant (ETP) for treating the ‘effluents’ generated by different processes at smelters. The ETP with reverse osmosis plants installed at all smelting locations is resulting in reducing freshwater foot prints of the Company. The treated effluents are recycled in the process ensuring ‘Zero Discharge’.

Hindustan Zinc has commissioned Udaipur’s first Sewage Treatment Plant (STP), with a capacity to treat 20 MLD of sewage, under the public-private-partnership model. This STP has effectively addressed the growing problem of pollution in Udaipur city’s water bodies and contributed towards enhancing the overall aquatic life and aesthetic look of lakes. Hindustan Zinc is now considering enhancing the capacity of current STP from 20 MLD to 40 MLD.

The Company also has green wind energy farms with 274 MW of power generation capacity located in Gujarat, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra.

WATER CONCLAVE - 2016 ATTENDED BY HINDUSTAN ZINC

Mr. Rajeeb Swain - Head Environment presented HZL’s Best practices in Water ,anagement & Stewardship at the Water Conclave - 2016 organized by CII and PHED & Ground Water Department, Govt of Rajasthan on 7 Jul,y 2016 at Jaipur. His presentation highlighted about all HZL units being Zero Liquid Discharge compliant and showcased  various initiatives like Multiple effect evaporators to recover water from the RO rejects effluent, adiabatic coolers to reduce fresh water makeup in process cooling towers, use of deep cone thickeners to reduce evaporation losses from the tailing pond, which are taken to reduce specific water consumption at Mines & Smelters of HZL. He also discussed about Sewage Treatment Plant which is Udaipur’s First Sewage Treatment Plant under PPP (Public Private Partnership) Project and explained how being a Responsible Corporate,  HZL is  helping in cleaning the Lakes and reusing sewage water of city.

HINDUSTAN ZINC RECOGNIZED AS “NOTEWORTHY WATER EFFICIENT UNIT” DURING “NATIONAL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN WATER MANAGEMENT 2016” BY CII

Hindustan Zinc’s Dariba Smelter Complex  has been recognized as “Noteworthy Water Efficient Unit”, “Within the Fence” category during “National Award for Excellence in Water Management 2016” by CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) on 27^th September, 2016 in Delhi at Hotel Le Meridian.

The Award was presented by Dr Anil Kakodkar - Member of BARC  & Chairman of Jury National Award for Excellence in Water Management. 75 Industries applied for the award wherein 21 were short listed and selected after due diligence at site and further presentation before the jury members of the Award Categories. 

Hindustan Zinc has witnessed 16% reduction in water consumption from FY 2011 to FY 2016 with the initiatives like cloud seeding, adiabatic cooling tower, multiple effective evaporator, deep cone thickener, air cooled condensers, sewage treatment plant and rain water harvesting. Hindustan Zinc’s Sewage Treatment Plant under PPP model commissioned in Udaipur is the first sustainable development project of its kind in Rajasthan with a capacity to treat 20 million litres of sewage per day. The Sewage Treatment Plant is bringing substantial reduction in sewage inflow to the lakes.

On behalf of Hindustan Zinc, the award was received by Mr. Manoj Agrawal – AGM, CPP, Mr. Ankit Mishra – AM, Environment  and Mr. Rohit Vijay – AM, Asset Optimisation.

HINDUSTAN ZINC "MARYADAA" - MAIL TODAY - HINDUSTAN ZINC'S STP TREATING 30% OF UDAIPUR'S SEWAGE

Another step towards “SWACHH BHARAT” 

Udaipur's First Sewage Treatment Plant...

Hindustan Zinc, a company of Vedanta Group in Zinc-Lead-Silver business has come forward and built Udaipur’s fist sewage treatment plant (STP) that treats 30% of the sewage generated by the city of lakes, a world’s class tourism destination. Udaipur generates about 70 million litres of sewage per day and Hindustan Zinc Sewage Treatment Plant is treating 20 million litres per day.   This STP has been built with a cost of Rs. 170 crore and has been constructed and commissioned on ‘Design Build Own Operate and Transfer’ basis in association with Government of Rajasthan.

Government of Rajasthan has been looking for this project for quite some time and there always has been a dire need for a large corporate to align and associate with the Government to address growing sewage problem in Udaipur. Hindustan Zinc being one of the largest corporate in Rajasthan and leader in undertaking environment friendly projects signed an agreement to undertake this project.

Udaipur, the city of lakes, elevated hills and magnificent cultural heritage with exotic palaces, celestial temples, colourful festivals and express highways is no doubt one of the most sought after national and global tourism destinations. Lakhs of tourists visit Udaipur every year.

With the time, in the last few years, the local population of Udaipur has also grown. The advent of shopping malls and multiplexes have been instrumental in building a new and modern Udaipur. As the city has grown, the maintenance of current infrastructure has also become a challenge, particularly in relation to cleanliness of majestic lakes. The challenge is to sustain the freshness of these lakes. For long, the lakes have been absorbing the disposal of human waste which has become critical as the contamination is now clearly visible on the surface of the water.

On an average, Udaipur city generates about 70 million litres of sewage per day and cleaning this sewage was itself a challenge. Currently, most of the sewage is travelling to various lakes leading to contamination of water, polluting lakes and thereby affecting overall beauty of these lakes. The only solution that was evident was constructing a large scale Sewage Treatment Plant that could take the load of treating this massive sewage. This treatment of sewage would not only keep the lakes clean, a strong move towards clean environment, but would also help in retaining the majestic looks of these lakes that attract lakhs of tourists every year.

Not just treating sewage, the Hindustan Zinc Sewage Treatment Plant, in the process, would also be generating a large quantity of manure that will be sold by Udaipur Municipal Corporation to the local bodies. This initiative itself is estimated to generate revenue of Rs. 1 crore every year. To ensure there is no piling-up of stocks of manure, the Udaipur Municipal Corporation will be disposing off the manure on fortnightly basis.

Hindustan Zinc, adhering to its commitment towards clean green environment and maintaining highest standards of waste management, commissioned this Sewage Treatment Plant in 2014. Hindustan Zinc will gradually divert domestic sewage pipeline into large pipe-lines, leading to the Sewage Treatment Plant, to reduce the flow of sewage in the lakes. 

Hindustan Zinc is one of the pioneers in adopting clean green technology in running its plants. Saving water has always been a focus area for Hindustan Zinc. While maintaining the global benchmark and working continuously towards water conservation, the company has been successfully reducing its water footprints by reducing the water consumption every year. All the business locations of Hindustan Zinc are working on zero discharge principle, while putting on efforts and research for gainful utilization of waste generated by them.

Hindustan Zinc Sewage Treatment Plant project is a major step not only towards treatment of sewage in Udaipur but also a significant initiative towards building a sustainable environment and conservation of water.

HINDUSTAN ZINC’S STP TREATING 30% UDAIPUR’S SEWAGE

Hindustan Zinc, a company of Vedanta Group in Zinc-Lead-Silver business has come forward and built Udaipur’s fist sewage treatment plant (STP) that treats 30% of the sewage generated by the city of lakes, a world’s class tourism destination. Udaipur generates about 70 million litres of sewage per day and Hindustan Zinc Sewage Treatment Plant is treating 20 million litres per day.   This STP has been built with a cost of Rs. 170 crore and has been constructed and commissioned on ‘Design Build Own Operate and Transfer’ basis in association with Government of Rajasthan.

On an average, Udaipur city generates about 70 million litres of sewage per day and cleaning this sewage has been a challenge. Currently, most of the sewage is travelling to various lakes leading to contamination of water, polluting lakes and thereby affecting overall beauty of these lakes. The only solution that was evident was constructing a large scale Sewage Treatment Plant that could take the load of treating this massive sewage. This treatment of sewage would not only keep the lakes clean, a strong move towards clean environment, but would also help in retaining the majestic looks of these lakes that attract lakhs of tourists every year.

Not just treating sewage, the Hindustan Zinc Sewage Treatment Plant, in the process, would also be generating a large quantity of manure that will be sold by Udaipur Municipal Corporation to the local bodies. This initiative itself is estimated to generate revenue of Rs. 1 crore every year. To ensure there is no piling-up of stocks of manure, the Udaipur Municipal Corporation will be disposing off the manure on fortnightly basis.

Hindustan Zinc, adhering to its commitment towards clean green environment and maintaining highest standards of waste management, commissioned this Sewage Treatment Plant in 2014. Hindustan Zinc ha also started the work relating to diverting domestic sewage pipeline into large pipe-lines which would lead to the Sewage Treatment Plant, to reduce further flow of sewage in the lakes. 

The company is one of the pioneers in adopting clean green technology in running its plants. Saving water has always been a focus area for Hindustan Zinc. While maintaining the global benchmark and working continuously towards water conservation, the company has been successfully reducing its water footprints by reducing the water consumption every year. All the business locations of Hindustan Zinc are working on zero discharge principle, while putting on efforts and research for gainful utilization of waste generated by them.

Hindustan Zinc Sewage Treatment Plant project is a major step not only towards treatment of sewage in Udaipur but also a significant initiative towards building a sustainable environment and conservation of water.