Vedanta Group’s Bharat Aluminium Company ltd (BAlCO), planted over 200 saplings on World Environment Day while kick starting a massive plantation drive to plant a total of 1.6 lakh trees.
The company organised awareness programmes for the community, which included competitions for children and the employees, a company press release issued here on Thursday stated.
Vedanta limited, has invested `361 crore towards environment sustainability projects across its global business locations in FY 2015.
Additionally, in line with its World Environment Day theme of — Seven Billion Dreams. One Planet. Consume with Care – the diversified natural resources company planted 7.12 lakh trees in India in FY 2015.
Importantly, Vedanta is also one of the first companies in India to adopt the Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool and has an integrated biodiversity action plan across its sites, it stated.
“At Vedanta, we recognize the importance of sustainable communities for the benefit of future generations’, said Roma Balwani, President, Group Sustainability & CSR, Vedanta.
We understand that a sustainable community is one that is economically, environmentally, and socially healthy, safe and resilient. It is with this objective, that we at Vedanta have undertaken a set of unique sustainability initiatives across all our locations to engage with local communities in which we operate, she said.
We hope to co-create a model of sustainable community living for others to replicate and will soon be implementing the CII’s biodiversity Indian Business Biodiversity Initiative,” Balwani said.
In Odisha, the members of Vedanta’s lanjigarh business unit planted 300 saplings in their township and 200 saplings in villages, Nangalbeda and Goipeta. In Jharsuguda, over 1000 saplings were planted and efforts have been made to extend this drive through planting more than 5000 saplings in the month of June this year. With the slogan of “One Child. One Plant”, more than 500 trees were planted by the children in Vedanta’s township.
To ban plastic use in Vedanta’s township, a rally, “Say No to Plastics” at Vedanta Meadows was organised, with Vedanta’s staff and family members, with cloth bags distributed to the shopkeepers.