Introduction
The Environment Management System Division of the Quality Management Systems Department addresses all environment issues with particular regard to preserving and protecting the environment from the impacts of climate change. The Environment Management System abides by all applicable Environmental laws and regulations and tries to exceed the requirements by periodically reviewing its policy for improvement in its environment related performance. The Environment Management System implements Green Initiative measures through effective implementation of programmes that reduce carbon emission, reduce noise and other pollution, reduce fuel consumption and reduce consumption of natural resources. It meets environmental objectives by continuous measuring, monitoring, reporting and improving upon environmental performance. It sets performance targets wherein objectives are achieved through training and the implementation of work instructions and practices.

Air India's goal is to be an organization whose practices make it one of the most environmentally sensitive companies in the aviation industry through an approach that safeguards and enhances the quality of life of its employee’s customers and protects the environment.

Your intervention leading to the attainment of the awards objective:
The Environment Management System is supported by a small but highly motivated team of individuals. Following are the brief activities undertaken by the team.

• Implementation of mitigation of climate change measures through carrying out of programmes that reduce carbon emissions and protect the planet.
• Implementation of Fuel Efficiency Gap Analysis (FEGA) and measures throughout the organization for reduction in the quantity of green houses gases. The EMS team was the catalyst and worked with other departments such as Operations, Engineering, Ground Handling and Commercial departments for achieving this goal.
• Flight Planning Systems for optimization of Flight Plans which results in shorter and direct routes leading to fuel savings and reduction in Carbon Emissions. The EMS team worked in close coordination with Flight Dispatchers and Operations department for the introduction of new system.
• Monitoring fuel consumptions and carbon dioxide emissions reductions for European Emission Trading Schemes (EU-ETS) Regulations.
• Reduction in consumption of paper through computerized Document Management System (DMS) across the organization.
• Conducting Training Workshops and Seminars for Executives and staff for environmental awareness.
• Conducting Tree Plantation programmes.
• Co-sponsoring Green Initiatives Seminars with the Aeronautical Society of India for lateral spread of Environmental Awareness ;
• Coordinating with engineering department who conduct Eco Power Wash for aircraft engines for improving the engine efficiency resulting in reduction in fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emission.
• Ensuring conformance to the standards laid down by DIAL (Delhi International Airport) as well as other Airports and Regulatory Authorities to reduce noise pollution.
• Conducting Theoretical studies on aviation grade bio-fuels.
• Introducing the Fuel and Operational Efficiency Management System for better tracking and monitoring of carbon dioxide emissions and fuel burn.

Important statistics (fuel / energy saving and others)
Air India’s main focus is to mitigate climatic change through carbon dioxide emissions reduction and has achieved Carbon dioxide emissions reductions of approx, 5 Lakh Metric Tons for the period September 2008 to April 2011.

Quote of the CMD/ HOD
A "Air India’s goal is to be an organization whose practices make it one of the most environmentally sensitive companies in the aviation industry through an approach that safeguards and enhances the quality of its employees, customers and protects the environment."

Contact Details
Air India
Ms. Harpreet A De Singh
(Head of QMS)
GM - QMS and Training
AIR INDIA
+91 22 2626-3497
harpreet.a.de.singh@gmail.com

Introduction
(BGPPL) is headquartered in New Delhi, Unit Bhigwan and manufactures high quality Coated Fine Paper & Board with two state of the art machines The 320000 TPA Bhigwan Mill is the biggest Coated Fine paper Mill in India for over a decade and is known worldwide for its attention to every area of the efficiency improvement & the way it goes about making high quality paper. The Unit is termed as most eco-friendly as the manufacture of paper is based on market bleached pulp.

The Mill is certified for integrated management system, FSC –COC Certification (First Paper mill in India) and they are in the process of implementing ISO 50001 energy management. Specific water consumption is reduced from 16.6 to 12.9m3/Ton of Paper, Specific power consumption is reduced from 717 to 657 KWh/ton of paper and steam consumption is reduced from 2.2 to 2.0 MT/ton per Ton of paper over the last year. This is best in the national and international benchmark level.

BGPPL is having 5 Stages Effluent Treatment Plant & have achieved status of “Zero Discharge Plant” in terms of Water & solid waste. They have planted exceeding 1.70 lacs trees in the barren land by using treated effluent & composted sludge from ETP. BGPPL is recipient of several awards for Environmental Performance and operational excellence. The unit has been conferred with following Awards in 2010-2011.

• National Award for Prevention of Pollution by MOEF &
• International Award for Efficiency Improvement of the year by RISI, UK.

Your intervention leading to the attainment of the awards objective
The organization has planted more than 1.70 lacs trees in last 10 years & converted the rocky barren land into a remarkable flora & fauna. The company’s Corporate Social Responsibility Team takes care of the 37 numbers of villages & work in following areas:

• Self Help Groups
• Education initiatives
• Computer literacy programmes
• Health & HIV Aids workplace prevention programmes
• Livestock development
• Water Management projects

The company has achieved Zero Discharge status for Liquid & Solid wastes.

To remain cost competitive, the company has implemented energy and resource conservation projects. They are planning to adapt the ISO 50001 (Energy management System) for systematic approach of reducing the energy consumption. BGPPL has also adapted the renewable energy sources for the different applications like lightning, heating systems etc. This is indirectly reducing the Green House Gases emission.

Production as per GSM category is at annexure 1.

Important statistics (fuel / energy saving and others)
The industry has spent the last three years with a mission to improve efficiency in each area and has shown remarkable success. During last year, the organization has achieved remarkable reductions in consumption parameters viz:

• Specific water consumption is reduced from 16.6 to 12.9m3/Ton of Paper,
• Specific power consumption is reduced from 717 to 657 KWh/ton of paper
• Steam consumption is reduced from 2.2 to 2.0 MT/ton per Ton of paper
• GHG emission reduced from 0.90 to 0.86 T/Ton of paper over the last year.
• Zero liquid & solid waste discharge.
• More than 1.70 lacs trees are planted converting the barren land in to good flora – fauna.

Quote of the department head / CEO/MD
"The success story of the Bhigwan Mill is due to the continual improvement done by the company employees under the umbrella of strong management systems".

Contact Details
Bilt Graphic Paper Products Limited
Mr. Surendra Khare
#105, MILESTONE PUNE
SOLAPUR HIGHWAY,
VILLAGE BHADALWADI,
DIST PUNE.
9420480180
Surendra.khare@bilt.com

Introduction
Energy Research Applications (ERA) is a science and technology (S & T) based organization registered under Societies Registration Act, 1860. ERA came into existence in the year 1995 as a result of efforts put in by scientists and technologists from I.I.T. Kanpur & I.I.T. Delhi with the objective to harness the S & T for masses at large. ERA has received international recognition in the field of energy research and its applications. Two patented technologies are in the credit of ERA in collaboration with Department of Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of India. ERA has been instrumental in working closely with the women groups to reduce drudgery and check the release of Green House Gases (GHG) and in reinforcing its commitment of energy conservation in traditional inefficient systems and technologies in the cottage industries and households.

The aim of this project is to create an alternate sustainable fuel and to build an entrepreneurial and management capacity of rural women groups to own and manage pilot energy enterprise at village levels. The objective is to replicate and scale this ERA Model of Urja cake to the GEF UNDP SGP partners in the country and other potential developing countries.

About the innovation and emission control features
5 million tons of Sponge Iron waste available in India yearly can feed clean fuel to 10 million households with a market of USD 786 million/year comprising only 7% of total market saving 14.6 million tons of fuel-wood and mitigating 26.75 million tons CO2 emission. The design of “Energy Cakes” has been optimized to allow carbon and oxygen to interact for near complete combustion which controls the emission. This technology is endorsed by

• IC2 Institute, University of Texas at Austin, USA
• Climate Technology Program, info Dev (World Bank and DFID);
• Ministry of Environment and Forest, Government of India;
• DST, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India;
• Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).

Recognitions
Dr Anil Kumar Singh has 15 years of experience in the field of development and commercialization of new energy technologies. He is M.Sc. in physics from I.I.T. Kanpur and M. Tech and Ph. D. in renewable energy technologies from I.I.T. Delhi. He has four patents (two granted) and more than 35 scientific papers in national & international journals. He was awarded BOYSCAST Fellowship by Government of India in 1994 and DST-Lockheed Martin Innovation Award 2010.

Quote :
"Business has two functions – marketing and innovation by transforming challenges into opportunities".

Contact Details
Dr. A. K. Singh
Energy Research Applications,
Energy House, Plot No. 294, Sector-39,
Gurgaon - 122001, Haryana, India.
Ph.-0124-2380194, Fax- 0124-4270735, Mobile - 09311380194
Email- energyresapp@sify.com

Introduction
Mahindra Vehicle Manufacturers Limited is a part of US $12.5 billion Mahindra & Mahindra group. They assemble heavy and light commercial vehicle & utility vehicles. Mahindra caters to both domestic as well as overseas market. The users of the product are from various segments like personal users, government agencies police & military. MVML posses two state of art Paint Shops which paint all the above mentioned bodies. Both Paint Shop put together can produce up to 3.4 Lac vehicles / annum.

About the innovation and emission control feature
In the applied innovation MVML integrated the heating & cooling requirements of the Paint Shop. It was seen that on one hand a lot of heat was rejected through the ovens (Approx 70,000 M3/ Hr of hot air @ 180 to 200 Deg C) & chillers (Via the cooling towers).Whereas on the other hand a huge heating requirements was needed. Also huge paint cooling requirements were needed for which MVML used electrically operated chillers. The heating requirement was to heat up the Paint shop process chemicals. This was used as an opportunity. The system was modified to convert the waste heat in to usable heat & use it for the process chemical heating. Air to water heat exchangers were used to recover the heat from ovens & a Heat Pump to recover the heat from the chiller condensers, the solar power to help the paint cooling requirements in the paint shop were also used. A solar powered VAM (chilling machine) to assist the conventional electrically powered chillers was used. The system was designed in such a way that it works ‘INSYNC’ with each other in an integrated manner. The above mentioned innovations fetch following environmental benefits (at peak loads)

• 1500 Tons of LPG per annum by virtue of Heat recovery from the ovens & Chiller condensers.
• 11, 500 M3 of water per annum by virtue of less usage of cooling towers.
• 1, 50,000 KWH per annum by virtue of using the Solar VAM.
  Replicability of the above mentioned innovation very good. Especially paint shops can deploy the innovation fully or partially depending upon their size.

Recognitions
MVML received following recognitions for the above innovation.

• Siemens and IBN Live Ecovative Awards, 2010 in the Low Energy Usage category.
• Kennametal Environmental protection award. This was award from Automation Industry Association for excellence in innovation & creative automation.

Quote
"We feel proud for achieving this path breaking innovation. This innovation gives us the sense of satisfaction of making our contribution towards sustainability. We have shown the way to the automotive industry in specific & manufacturing industry in general to tap the possibilities of Environmental protection. We hope that this innovation triggers further, much more innovations contributing towards environmental protection".

Contact Details
Mahindra Vehicle Manufacturers Limited,
Mr. Piyush Thakur
A-1, MIDC- Phase IV, Chakan Industrial Area
Village-Nighoje, Taluka-Khed, Chakan Pune
Maharashtra 410501
Phone: +91-9890172223, 02135 617508
thakar.piyush@mahindra.com

Introduction
SAFE has the mandate to achieve community based sustainable environment development towards poverty alleviation through participation, partnership, equity and reciprocity in the Indian eco region. SAFE envisages global reciprocal partnership and participatory policy frame for commons to promote sustainable environment development and wise use of natural resources. Our current focus adopts a community based strategic approach for natural resource management that is congruent to sustainable socio economy creating a win-win situation for the society and global environment. SAFE has developed greater partnership with corporate under CSR to carry out environmental awareness, plantation and urban sustainability pilot programs. SAFE is working in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan especially in the biodiversity rich climate vulnerable areas at science-society interface.

Environmental, social and economic output

Environmental
Wetland habitat restoration led to an increase of Biodiversity Alpha Index by +0.37 indicating increasing species richness and decrease in species migration, wherein 8 species of self recruiting endemic fishes where brought back to their old habitat and rehabilitated. An estimated increase of 12- 18% in Green water harvesting was achieved in the following monsoon after reclamation of wetlands and an equivalent of 230 million liters of sewerage (grey water) could be removed from clogging and detention above 30 days helping in reducing emission from putrefaction. Extensive plantation increased carbon sequestering capacity in the wetland carbon sink and benefited in recharging ground water proportionately.

Social
Community initiative in participatory conservation program embarked disaster preparedness and resilience, social assurance and cohesive endeavors amongst 2000 fishers. Sense of empowerment and growing social assurance prevented migration, inculcated social ethics to combat disruptive behavior in the community. More than 500 families are now covered under micro insurance schemes through Bio rights.

Economic
Bio rights as a financial tool compensated the opportunity cost incurred by the community in enduring conservation efforts to restore the wetlands. Per capita increase in return on investment is more than 27% now. At least 150 poor youth has found an alternative livelihood option by increased competency through capacity building that has helped in developing entrepreneurial efforts, sharing joint financial liabilities, and venturing new economic enterprises.

Efforts at preparing community from vulnerability
The first challenge in developing preparedness amongst vulnerable communities the panic of losing their livelihoods, marginal farmers or fishers remain extremely reluctant in accepting innovative or experimental alternatives. Moreover, mostly they expect top up grants, subsidies, or relief without any financial liability which never diminish their vulnerability in any way. Our approach to community preparedness is always ecosystem based. Instead of a top down strategy implication we prefer a participatory bottom up approach through problem pyramiding. In East Kolkata Wetland also we had practiced the same and initially listened to the commons perspective of vulnerability. For obvious reasons the facets of vulnerability revealed in the discussion related to issues like, health, sanitation, earning and basic amenities of life. Our preparedness endeavor starts with collective community efforts to resolve those issues which they had highlighted. The green agenda comes much later but in course of time it tops the list as the community learns from the participatory experience that conserving the environment and wise use of natural resources is the panacea to all odds. They easily converge and adopt, adaptive strategies towards resilience and preparedness.

What you feel (quote)
"Indexing the sustainability coefficient of Indian agriculture is necessary. More necessary is to assess the food and water security for the commons in the vortex of today’s changing climate. To address this serious issue and its policy implications, I will continue to raise the voice of the commons at all levels, and appeal for greater partnership to every stakeholders"

Contact Details
Dr. Dipayan Dey
(Administrative Office): P 32 J.U.Emp.Housing Society,
P.O. Panchasayar, Kolkata 700094
West Bengal,

Phone: 033 24329699;
Cell No: 0091 9903181171;

email: office@safeinch.org OR safeinch@gmail.org,
Website: www.safeinch.org

Introduction
Videocon Industries Ltd. was founded by Late Sh.Nand Lal Dhoot Ji in the year 1985. It started with CTV Manufacturing Unit and later during their journey of 25 Years it became a market leader in consumer durables sector. Videocon Aurangabad operations has given the employment to 3000 persons and is involved in the manufacturing of CTV, LCD, Washing Machine, DVD, Air Conditioners, and refrigerator with a commitment to conserve the nature through their Energy efficient products and processes.

Intervention leading the attainment of the awards objective

Process:

• Improvement in process and component design to eliminate need of aging of CTV in manufacturing process.
• Optimization of line balancing and improvement in productivity.
• Adoption of new techniques for energy conservation.

Products:

• Eco Logic products with star rating
• Use of RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) components & Processes

Energy consumption:

• Preceding intervention : 3446847 KWH
• After intervention : 2368635 KWH

Important Statistics ( Fuel/ Energy saving and others )
With a market share today of 25%, eco vision has contributed to a total reduction of GHG or CO2 equivalent 19.6 Million Kg. While doing so, Videocon also took significant measures to improve efficiency in production and bring down emission through process improvement and fuel use reduction.

Quote
We are committed towards environment protection and sustenance through conservation of natural resources and believe a real commitment to corporate social responsibility (CSR).

Contact Details
M/S Videocon Industries Limited
Mr. D.K. Singh
14 Kms Stone, Aurangabad-Paithan Road,
Chitegaon, Tq. Paithan,
Dist. Aurangabad (Maharashtra) - 431105 (India)
Phone : 09225334401
dksingh@vgmail.in

Introduction
Vivekanand Research and Training Institute - is engaged in rural development in Kutch district since 1976, under the valuable guidance of Mr. Kantisen Shroff it is working in 225 villages of Kutch (Gujarat) district with 110 staff members. The Government of Gujrat has honored it with “A” rank.

Main objective is to promote sustainable rural development with community participation in the areas like rain water harvesting, creating drinking water distribution resources & distribution system, watershed development, prevention of salinity ingress, developing salinity resistant crops, disaster management, livelihood, health & hygiene, education and capacity building programs at village level. Environment friendly activities like tree plantation, eco club, and smokeless chullas are also being carried out. The vision is to develop sustainable economic activities based on agriculture, animal husbandry and rural art and craft.

Environmental, social and economic output

Environment Output:
Kutch is hampered by the high flow of seawater into the district; seawater ingress into inherently saline soils has not only decreased the area under cultivation but also reduced crop yields. There VRTI undertook construction and also built recharge tube wells with a filter bed to ensure purity of the rainwater percolating to the aquifers. VRTI has been associated in several successful developmental projects to combat salt water ingress in the district.

In this sector most important output is improvement in ground water in terms of quality and quantity due to different types of rain water harvesting activities. Plantation of trees carried out at private lands, community land and also road side plantation. There are about 600 kitchen garden unit and also 100 eco clubs in schools. There are also establishment of biogas plants, both community plants and individual plants. Under water & sanitation projects, underground drainage and waste water treatment plants are constructed. The institute has organized workshops about environment awareness for the communities.

Social Output:
The community has taken a big leap towards organizing themselves to carry out different social activities with collective responsibility. There is better management of assets created under different projects as there is feeling of ownership. The community is also now aware about different government schemes and linking them with ongoing activities. Local responsible leadership is also evolved during these projects and this leadership also capable to guide community for their problems not in their functional area but also in nearby villages also.

Economic Output:
There is marked improvement in the income of the community of working area due to project activities. For about 50,000 household, there is increase of about 15 to 30% in their income. Major livelihood under improvement is agriculture. Due to market linkage efforts for milk, about 6000 households now fetch Rs. 22 to 28 per liter of milk instead of earlier rate of Rs. 10 to 12 per liter. Different activities for about 800 fishermen have increased their income about 35%. Working with women through Self Help Group, about 6500 women through different income generating activities they reached Rs. 1.5 crore of turnovers.

Efforts at preparing community from vulnerability
Community always remains at center in all these activities. Different activities like gramsabha, focus group discussion, meetings are carried out to educate community. There are also awareness programme like street play and Lok Dayaro which communicate any message or information to community in very simple language. Community is also presented two different pictures under to different scenario and taught to choose right path for sustainable development.

What you feel (quote)
"Community participation and collective responsibility is the key for success of community development project. The integrated approach for rural development is must for overall uplift of community. Innovative activities to tackle problems should be carried out".

Contact Details
Shree Vivekanand Research and Training Institute – Mandvi (VRTI)
Mr. Mavjibhai L Baraiya
Near Jain Ashram, Nagalpur Road,
Mandvi, Dist. Kutch (Gujarat) - Pin. 370 465
Phone: (02834) 223934, 223253, Fax : (02834) 223838 , 09099971806
Email: vrti_mandvi@yahoo.com, vrtimandvi@gmail.com