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PRESS RELEASE ACC Limited, has become the first Indian cement company to publish an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for all of its blended cement products manufactured across all of its 17 cement plants. Beginning June 07, 2018, leading ACC cement brands namely ACC Suraksha Power, ACC Concrete+ Xtra Strong, ACC Gold Water Shield, ACC HPC Long Life and ACC F2R Superfast will feature the EPD declaration. Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) is an independently verified and registered document that communicates transparent and comparable information about the life-cycle environmental impact of products. Certified by the Indian regional hub of “The International EPD® System”, the EPD has a five-year validity. This EPD is generated in line with ISO 14025:2006 and EN 15804 standards

PRESS RELEASE Genpact (NYSE: G) a global professional services firm focused on delivering digital transformation, is partnering with Akshaya Patra to fight classroom hunger. Through this initiative, Genpact and Akshaya Patra is providing nutritious and well-balanced meals to one million school students in government and government-aided schools across India. Poor nutrition affects the physical and mental development of young children and is a leading cause of students dropping out of school. Approximately 2000 Genpact employees and volunteers across Delhi NCR, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Mumbai, Jaipur and Kolkata came together at this event to fight classroom hunger and empower students to reach their full potential. Sasha Sanyal, global business leader, Insurance, Diversity and CSR, Genpact, said, “It is unacceptable that in today’s

PRESS RELEASE Shri P.P. Chaudhary, Hon’ble Minister of State, Law & Justice and Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India, inaugurated solar street lights that have been installed in Khariya Sodha village in Pali district of Rajasthan, underscoring PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) India Foundation’s commitment towards the underprivileged section of society that has limited access to reliable electrical lighting. The event was attended by Jaivir Singh, Vice Chairman, PwC India Foundation. This is a welcome move as the Hon’ble Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, observed at the World Economic Forum earlier this year, that India has a strong focus on renewable energy sources. Jaivir Singh said, “At the PwC India Foundation, we are always looking for opportunities

INITIATIVE The mythological ghariyals are back in Gandak. The world famous Harihar Kshetra Mela at Sonpur in Bihar on the banks of Gandak is held to commemorate the mythological tale of Lord Vishnu coming to the aid of an elephant whose leg had been caught in the jaws of a hariyal in the Gandak river. According to reports, concerted efforts by conservationists, locals and Bihar Government forest officials for the past two years to revive gharial breeding in the Gandak river near the Valmiki National Park in West Champaran have begun to yield results as 20 hatchlings emerged from two nests recently, scripting a major success in gharial conservation efforts. “On June 14, twenty hatchlings emerged out of the two

INITIATIVE To save environment from the abuse of drugs, the government has decided to ban production of such formulations which was being used to enhance dairy and vegetable productions. Almost a month after banning import of Oxytocin formulations, the Government has prohibited the private sector from producing the drug, a move aimed to curb its misuse by dairy owners and farmers who use it to boost milk production and increase size of vegetables like watermelons and pumpkins. The order issued by the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) under the Union Health Ministry will be effective from July 1. The move follows concern over the frequent abuse of the drug, as had been regularly pointed out by Union Minister of

OPINION Embracing the girth of the woody existents, clasping the brown black tree trunks with all their might, a string of protesters firmly stand opposing the ongoing tree cutting at the redevelopment sites falling inside the periphery of South Delhi. The confronting move put forth by the people had come up in wake of loss of about thousands of trees, which were being felled in order to facilitate the redevelopment plan in the areas of Nauroji Nagar and Netaji Nagar. “We don’t we a deserted Delhi”, “Ban tree felling in Delhi”, these are few of the slogans which are being voiced with the aim to be badgered onto the deaf ears residing on official statures as evidently it is the

INITIATIVE The Government of India, through its Swachh Bharat (Clean India) Mission, has proposed a multistakeholder Initiative focusing on cleaning up 100 places across the country that are “Iconic” due to their history, heritage and religious and/or cultural significance with high visitors footfall. The goal of the initiative is to improve the cleanliness conditions at these places to a distinctly higher level. All Iconic Sites have designated PSUs for financial and technical support. In this backdrop, 10 places containing historically, spiritually and culturally significant heritage of India were selected in the 1st phase of implementation. Development of Puri is one amongst the 10 historical places taken up by National Aluminium Company (NALCO). Puri – place of Pristine beauty   Puri,

INITIATIVE “If there are no mangroves, then the sea will have no meaning. It is like having a tree without roots, for the mangroves are roots of the sea…” — Thai fisherman from the Andaman Coast These words by a fisherman are enough to define the importance of mangroves in our ecosystem. It also gives us major hints about the devastative repercussions on elimination of this green barricade. And this is exactly what lead to its conservation becoming one of the issues taken into consideration by UNESCO. July 26, 2016 marks UNESCO’s first celebration of the International day For Conservation of The Mangrove Ecosystem. On the 6th of November 2015, the General Conference of UNESCO had adopted a proclamation which