Golden Peacock Environment Management Award 2021 conferred to SAIL
Highlights:
- The Steel Authority of India Ltd. (SAIL) has been granted the coveted Golden Peacock Environment Management Award 2021, the third year in a row.
- The Maharatna Company SAIL is part of the Ministry of Steel.
- Since 1998, the Environment Foundation (WEF) has granted the award to organizations for notable achievements in environmental management.
- The company's environmental protection efforts are focused on upgrading pollution control facilities, water conservation efforts with the goal of achieving Zero Liquid Discharge, efficient handling of various solid wastes (viz. process waste, hazardous waste, canteen/township waste), carbon sequestration through afforestation, eco-restoration of the mined-out area, and other environmental measures.
- The company's corporate policies and practices have made carbon footprint reduction a priority.
- Deployment of cutting-edge environmentally friendly technologies, R&D projects in collaboration with reputable academic institutes for resource efficiency, large plantation drives to create carbon sinks, gradual shift to LED lighting, increasing the share of renewable energy, and so on.
- It is noted that SAIL was founded on 19 January 1954, headquartered in New Delhi.
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