With better awareness of the ecology and our working environment, the Jaypee Group as, indeed, the rest of world – continually looks for innovative and cost - effective solutions to reduce wastes and preserve natural resources.

Some of the measures include :

Afforestation drives across all our campuses and project sites we operate are another example of our practical approach to environment conservation. No project is begun before extensive soil tests confirm the quality, alkalinity and porosity of the soil. Only local plant species or those with a high likelihood of survival are selected by our Green Team, staffed by qualified and highly experienced professionals, for plantation and its upkeep. This scientific approach has ensured around 85% survival rate across the different locations and climatic conditions where we have carried out our drives. When one considers that the Group has planted close to a million trees over the years, that’s a very large forest indeed!

Keeping in mind the utility as well as ecological aspects, greenbelts have been designed by strategic planning and resourceful usage of knowledge. The design mainly focuses on conserving indigenous species, retaining and enhancing surrounding landscape, eliminating exotic species by selection, creating habitat for birds and insects, planting a mix of species that are a part of rural, urban and native landscapes and also raising environmental awareness. The project has given a unique opportunity in regard to creating Functional Green Belts with native species, resulting in practical conservation of flora and fauna of the region.

The Company has created reservoirs with huge surface area and storage capacity. These interlinked water bodies provide the entire water supply for the manufacturing process, eliminating the use of precious surface and ground water resources completely. A garland canal system along the mines periphery collects runoff rainwater in the reservoirs and lakes. These reservoirs have recharged the ground water across all the surrounding villages, improving not just crop yields, but the overall quality of life.

Similarly, at Group’s Sewagram cement plant in Gujarat, the company has developed two ponds for rain water harvesting and the quantity of rain water being collected near the cement plant is 7.5 Lac Cub. Meter.

Thermal power and cement plants are equipped with secondary and tertiary treatment facilities for waste water, so that most of the water can be recycled, making these units practically `zero discharge’ units. The company uses the fly ash generated from coal fired boilers as Pozzolanic material in the manufacture of cement, ensuring no solid waste from captive power plants.

Electronic wastes are disposed off through authorized vendors. Biodegradable wastes from the project canteen, colony are utilized for generating bio gas. Leaf litter is converted to compost through vermi composting and thereafter used as manure in horticulture and plantation.

The Cement business has established a state of the art Environment Management Cell which hosts a fully functional laboratory with modern testing and monitoring equipment to ensure all emissions and dust that is generated is within permissible limits. All captive power plants use high efficiency boilers and ESPs which ensure Stack emissions at much lower level than the statutory limits of 50mg/Nm3.

Regular environmental audits are conducted at the Company’s cement plants and stack/ambient emission monitoring is carried out on a regular basis.

The Company ensures that all possible measures are taken to conserve energy including identification of potential areas of saving energy, installing of energy saving devices such as capacitor control panels to help improve power factor and use of energy efficient lamps. The energy conservation measures undertaken ensure savings in energy costs, thereby improving operational efficiency. The Company’s cement plants have installed high efficiency pollution control and monitoring equipment such as Vertical Roller Mills which consume low energy for raw meal and coal grinding units.

An Energy Monitoring Cell has been set up which is assigned the task of monthly review of power consumption. Regular steps are taken to identify and arrest the loss of energy.

An indepth analysis of cement operation of the company has made it energy conscious and following measures have been taken: