A glance at biodiversity
The lt Governor of Delhi, Anil Baijal, along with Vice Chairman, DDA and senior officers from Raj Niwas, visited the Aravalli Biodiversity Park at 6.30 am yesterday for a first-hand understanding of things. He was briefed about the different landscape features and development of different forest communities by the Project Incharge. The lt Governor walked through a nature trail, which cut across six different forest communities of the Aravalli ranges.
He witnessed a variety of bird species such as Brown Barbet, Parakeets and others. The trail took him to orchidarium and also a functional cave ecosystem harbouring bats. Having appreciated the micro-climate created in a clay mined pit and its transformation into a moist forest habitat that supports orchids, he then visited the butterfly conservatory established in a natural depression. He planted a banyan tree as a symbol of posterity.
NHPC meet
The NHPC, Faridabad, will be organising a conference called “Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas Sammelan”, aimed to showcase various government schemes, at Nuh and Palwal in Haryana today onwards. The Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment, Mr Krishna Pal Gurjar, will round off the meet on June 18.
Corporation Bank holds cleanliness drive
On the eve of world environment day, Corporation Bank organised a cleanliness drive and tree plantation program at Tannirbhavi Beach, Mangalore. Swamy Jitakamananda, president, Ramakrishna Mutt, Mangalore and Jai Kumar Garg, Managing Director and CEO, Corporation Bank, flagged off the cleanliness drive in the presence of executives and staff members of the Bank.
Garg said that it is a matter of concern that Mangalore has slipped down from its premier position in cleanliness during the Swachh Survekshan 2017. He said cleanliness is the duty of every citizen. later he planted tree saplings at Tannirbhavi and called upon the participants to actively involve themselves in making the country cleaner and greener.
GST workshop
A workshop was organised to familiarise the various user departments with the dynamics of shifting to GST by the Finance department of NRHQ on June 13. The workshop was conducted by Kapil Vaish and Co, Chartered Accountants, lucknow and was attended by R.S Rathi, RED (North) along with members of various user departments.
One step towards Greenery
GAIl celebrated World Environment Day globally.Over this year, GAIl has been actively engaged in bettering the environmental situation in the country through a slew of initiatives, in a sustained manner. Some of these initiativesinclude the Water Management Initiative at GAIl Vaghodia which has resulted in annual saving of approx. 8760 tonnes of water purchased from GIDC with financial saving of Rs3
lakh; the Roof Top Solar Captive power project which has a yearly power production of about 7.5 Millons KWH and the Waste Heat Recovery Project at Vijaipur which is aimed atfuel gas saving of about 0.026 MMSCMD and reduction in flue gas emissions is about 13T/H.
GAIl has adopted the Green Building concept in all new building projects. The GAIl JubileeTower has received lEED Platinum certification by IGBC and the Chhainsa Unit hasreceived a 4 star GRIHA rating for green building.