Our Chlor Alkali manufacturing unit at Ganjam (Grasim Chemical Division) won at the APEX India GreenLeaf Awards 2021 in the category of Eco Innovations.
The purpose of Apex India Excellence Award is to promote improvements, encourage people, honour and generate public recognition of the achievements and positive contribution of organizations and working professionals in their respective fields. Apex India foundation is a Non-Profit Foundation of People of Indian Origin, founded able to provide a platform for Indians everywhere.
Apex India Excellence Award is presented in various fields to celebrate the leadership, commitment, and dedication of individuals, with a rigorous research and selection processes.
Our unit was recognised for a ground water restoration, by adopting rainwater harvesting and artificial ground water table recharging. The Unit has undertaken several Water conservation projects as it is an imperative need to augment valuable groundwater resources. Artificial recharge and roof top rainwater harvesting has been the primary focus to revive the precious resource.
With support from Mr. A.R. Shivakumar (Scientist, Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology) for technical advisory, multiple steps were taken including an average rainfall study at certain designated areas, site selection, a preliminary & topography & soil strata study, designing a recharging/injection well design, and site construction and soil levelling.
The efforts resulted in water conservation of 2,86,687 cubic metre a year. This was across surface runoff water harvesting through a check dam, roof top harvesting, multiple ground water recharging bore-wells and injection wells.
Winning the award amongst 8500 unit applications, the award was received by Ganjam Environmental Team Mr. Ashok Singh, & Dr. Suchismita Pattnaik at the APEX India GreenLeaf Awards from Mr Manoj Tiwari (MP and Actor) & Mr. P.K. Saighal (Defence expert).
