Piparwar OCP of CCl was awarded with 2nd prize for “Pollution Control and for complying with Rules & Regulations for conservation of Environment” by the Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board, Ranchi in a programme organised by the JSPCB to observe World Environment Day on June 5, 2016. The award was received by Sanjay Kumar, Area Environment Officer, Piparwar Area CCl.
The Chief Guest of the programme was CP Singh Minister for Urban development, transport and Rajbala Verma Chief Secretary Governmnet of Jharkhand. Sukhdev Singh Forest Secretary GOJ, Dr DD Sharma Chairman-JSPCB and Sanjay Kumar Suman MS-JSPCB were also present.
Second prize by JSPCB as awarded to the Piparwar OCP is in recognition to its work towards mitigation of pollution, dust control, mine reclamation, massive plantation over mined-out area, water conservation, construction of ponds, low carbon emission and sustainable mining operations.
CMD CCl Gopal Singh appreciated the effort put in by the team of Piparwar Area particularly the effort and focused approach of Environment Department of Piparwar Area. He also emphasised on the need to progressively adopt innovative methodology for environmental conservation with due participation of local people living in and around coal mines. Singh also made a special mention of Kayakalp Vatika which is exclusively being developed on the reclaimed land in Piparwar Area. He informed that this year 1 lakh saplings will be planted by CCl.
It is also worth mentioning that in the year 2014 Piparwar OCP was awarded with first prize by JSPCB for “Mine reclamation” and in the year 2015 Piparwar Area was again awarded with first prize by JSPCB for “Coal production with low carbon emission & water management”.