Sustainable Development at NLC

Introduction
Sustainable Development depends on our ability to build resilience to our plans
and operations. We should be able to tackle future challenges so that we can
continue to make a positive contribution to our country, society and
environment. At NL, we firmly believe that our responsibility lies in
environment friendly mining and delivering cleaner, more reliable and affordable
energy as the best contribution that we can make today to all and also for
sustainable growth of the company. We work closely with community and
regulatory authorities towards continued growth of the company and powering
the Nation.
Department of !ublic "nterprises recently issued the Sustainable Development
#SD$ guidelines for !S% making it mandatory for !S"&s to include SD as a
compulsory element in their '(% under the non financial parameters with
mandatory weightage of )*. (ur +oard has approved SD !olicy and allocated
budget amount of ,s -../ r. to take up the above pro0ects for the year .1-.2-3
Sustainable Development Policy
!romote the sustained growth of the company while safeguarding the
earth4s capacity to support life in all its diversity and protection of health of
all living beings and environment.
Align Sustainable Development into core and allied business of the
company.
!romote high 5uality human resource whose strength is based on
education, training and innovation to achieve economic progress
concurrently maintaining ecological balance.
6o follow sound environment management practices which are basic
necessity for Sustainable Development
onserve scarce resources and utili7e renewable sources of "nergy.
'aintain 5uality of Air, Water and Soil 8 Land.
Board level subcommittee on SD :
Dr. SAN9A: ;(<=ND D>AND", Director8==6, ?anpur hairman
Shri. ,. ?ANDASA': Director8!lanning @ !ro0ect as 'ember2onvener
Shri. ,. ?ANDASA':, Director8'ines as 'ember.
Shri. 9.'A>=L S"L<AN, Director8!ower as 'ember.
Our Activities :
(ur company has approved the following SD pro0ects for the period .1-.2-3
,eclamation and reuse of lands in 'ines
Development of "co 6ourism !ark in Neyveli 6ownship
ompletion of ,esidual Life Assessment #,LA$ studies of 6urbine and
replacement of final loop of ,e2heater . coil in one %nit #.-1'W$ of 6!S2==
towards improved efficiency
'andatory training !rogramme on Sustainable Development for Students
Se5uestration of (. and production of +io2fuel from flue gas from
6hermal !ower !lant
!ollution Source Apportion Study for Neyveli industrial area
Water 'anagement2,echarging of ;round Water
%tilisation of fly ash in making +rick8Window and
,enewable energy pro0ect #Solar !< !ower !ro0ect$.