Metallurgical and Engineering Consultants (MECON) limited received the prestigious Golden Peacock Eco-Innovation Award for the year 2014 by Institute of Directors at the 16th World Congress on Environment Management on Friday. Justice (Dr) Arijit Pasayat , former Judge of Supreme Court of India presented the award to A.K.Tyagi CMD MECON at the World Congress held in New Delhi in the presence of a distinguished gathering of business leaders, jurists, academics, environmentalists, economists, legislators and policy makers.
The award was presented to MECON for its work from concept to commissioning of setting up of a 100 Million litres per day sea water Reverse Osmosis desalination plant at Nemmeli, Chennai, Tamilnadu to produce potable water for Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board. This project has brought great relief for residents of South Chennai city as they are receiving the potable water from this plant. The production cost of potable water from this desalination plant will be only 1.9 paisa per litre. The production cost is far below the earlier plants. This is one of the landmark project of MECON.