In view of World Environment Day celebrations on Friday (June 5), an awareness rally and a mass tree plantation programme were organised at NTPC's 2600 MW power station here on Thursday.
Prakash Tiwari, Group General Manager, was the chief guest of the function. The rally started from Pragati Club in the wee hours of Thursday and in the end, a mass tree plantation programme was conducted on the premises of Gurudwara located in the NTPC Township at Korba, a company press release stated here.
It is to be noted here that the power station has achieved zero water discharge status and 100% ash-water is recycled for re-use. In addition to this, water harvesting structures have been installed for restoration of the useful natural resource, it stated.
Similarly, ammonia dozing is undertaken in all units to keep the emission level under control. Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Systems have been installed at four locations to keep tabs on the pollution level.
The station has been rigorously following an effective Ash Management System through brick manufacturing, sprinkling on ash mount and restoration of ash dyke through earth cover and plantation.
A green cover of over 23,00,000 plantations have been completed in and around the power station. Of late, the Station has established a 2x20 KW mini-hydel power station, the first of its kind by NTPC, costing around Rs1 crore at village Nakkiya, located 70 km away from the power station, to provide electricity from renewable sources to around 300 households.
Among others Dakshinamurthy, GM (TS), Dipankar Bose, GM (Maintenance), CB Mahajan, AGM (C&M), SK Sanbad, AGM (EMG & AU), S Ghose, Abdesh Kumar, senior officials, CISF personnel and employees were present.