The two projects of Hindustan Zinc including the plantation of 50000 plants in Biodiversity Park at Rajpura Dariba Mine and developing green area on the wasteland in collaboration with The Energy and Research Institute (TERI) have been recognised as innovative environmental projects by the CII, a leading industry association.
Epitomizing to the vision of ‘Protecting and enhancing biodiversity for a sustainable future, the company has won the ‘Most Innovative Environmental Project Award’ for its Chanderiya Lead Zinc Smelter (CLZS) – Restoration of Jarofix Yard and ‘Innovative Environmental Project Award’ for Biodiversity Park at Rajpura Dariba Mine -in the renowned CII National Award for Environmental Best Practices 2021.
CEO of Hindustan Zinc, Arun Misra, said, “Our commitment to sustainability will lead us to a healthier and greener tomorrow not just for ourselves but also for future generations.”
“We have ambitious Sustainability Development Goals 2025 and each step we take is directed to achieving them. They exemplify our company’s vision of protecting and conserving the biodiversity around us to achieve a minimum of No Net Loss (NNL) of biodiversity and Net Positive Gain (NPG) of biodiversity at all our operations.”, Misra added.
Over 10 hectares of land within the Rajpura Dariba Mine has been developed as Biodiversity Park, wherein more than 50,000 plants of 42 different species were planted.
Earlier the entire area was covered with invasive species, after soil enrichment and conditioning, the area has now been converted into green land.
The Chanderiya Lead Zinc Smelter team in collaboration with TERI (The Energy and Research Institute) has used Mycorrhiza technology for the development of a 3-hectare green area on its exhausted Jarofix Waste yard.
The Mycorrhiza technology is a symbiotic association between a plant and a fungus, where the plant provides food for the fungus and the fungus draws nutrients from the soil and adds to the improvement of cultivation processes, rejuvenation of fertile soils, and reclamation of wasteland into productive land in a sustainable manner.
Among all the 196 Projects that had applied, the Restoration of Jarofix Yard Project and the Biodiversity Park Project were shortlisted in the 35 Environment Best Practice Projects.
Tarun Meghwal – Sr. Manager Environment, Vijay Rana – Manager Process, Manisha Bhati – Deputy Manager Environment and Harish Chaturvedi – Executive Environment from the Chanderiya team and Vivek Kumar – Head Environment DSC and Himanshu Sharda – Team Member Environment RDM team presented the project to jury members of esteemed Industry professional and received appreciations for the project and its implementation by the Jury Team.
