Bokaro Steel Plant has achieved a major milestone by winning the prestigious Greentech International Environment, Health and Safety Awards 2023 in the "Environment Leadership" category. Greentech International Environment, Health and Safety Award 2023 has been given seeking efforts of Bokaro Steel Plant for responsible, innovative practices and new initiatives towards achieving sustainable goals. It is worth mentioning that BSL under the leadership of Amarendu Prakash, Director In-charge of BSL has taken up the campaign to convert Waste to Wealth and notably Over the years, the utilization of waste and its use as input material within the plant and in other industries has generated a revenue of over Rs.1000 crores.
The presentation for this award was made by BSL General Manager (Environment), NP Srivastava and AGM (Environment) Nitesh Ranjan in front of the jury members. The jury members were highly impressed by Bokaro Steel Plant's dynamic initiative in production of eco-friendly green steel and efforts to convert waste materials generated during steel making into eco-friendly products. It is noteworthy that jury members included former chief factory inspector, former MD Canara Bank, former director ONGC and others. Based on the presentation made, the jury members declared Bokaro Steel Plant as the winner for outstanding achievements in the category "Environment Leadership". Sharad Gupta, Chief General Manager (Maintenance) received the award on behalf of BSL during the "Greentech International EHS Summit" held at Panaji, Goa recently. Notably the jury members also appreciating the contribution of DIC Amarendu Prakash, declared him the winner in the category "Leading Director Award".
It is noteworthy that such efforts including 29.33% reduction in particulate matter and 85.09% reduction in specific waste discharge in the last three years have made Bokaro Steel's systems and processes more eco-friendly. Also to achieve India's ambitious target of 500 GW of renewable energy by 2030 as committed by India at COP 26, Bokaro Steel has also developed environment friendly highly alloyed corrosion resistant SAILCOR grade which is suitable for manufacturing solar panels for solar power industry. BSL has also obtained license for weather resistant steel IS 11587 which is an indigenous equivalent grade to Corten steel as an import substitute and Make in India campaign.