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ASH UTILISATION
During the year 2003-2004, about 75 lakh tons
of ash has been utilized for various
productive purposes, which is approximately
23.5% of the total ash generation against
MOU excellent target of 16.5%. The major ash
utilization was in the areas of issue to Cement
and Asbestos Industry, Ash Dyke Raising and
Land Development & Road Embankment.
REHABILITATION & RESETTLEMENT
NTPC is committed to help the populace
displaced for execution of its projects and has
been making efforts to improve the Socioeconomic
status of Project Affected Persons
(PAPs). In line with its social objective, the
company has focused on effective resettlement
and rehabilitation of its PAPs and also
community development works in and
around the projects.
During the year Rehabilitation Action Plans for
Koldam Project was approved in June 2003 for
Rs.28.96 crore and community development
plan was approved for Rs. 8.69 crore in
Janaury 2004. Additional community
development plan for newly acquired area for MGR
corridor etc. of Simhadri Project was approved
on April 2003 for Rs.100.0 lakhs.
Implementation of RAP of Unchahar-II project
was completed in March 2004. Implementation
of approved RAPs for Anta-II, Auraiya-II, Sipat
and Simhadri is in progress.
ISO CERTIFICATION
NTPC’s pursuit for excellence with good system
orientation has been Engineering Division,
Operation Services Divison, Contracts & Materials
Divison, Consultancy Wing, Corpoate Commercial,
Corporate HR and the Power Management
Institute (PMI) achieving ISO-9001 certification.
Eighteen (18) out of Twenty (20) Stations of NTPC
have been accredited with ISO-9002 certification
and Nineteen (19) out of Twenty (20) Stations of
NTPC (including Badarpur) have implemented
ISO-14001 certified Environment Management
Systems (EMS) the same is under
implementation at Simhadri. The Corporate
Environment and Ash Utilisation division has also
achieved ISO-4001 Certification.
ENERGY CONSERVATION
NTPC carries out 150 to 200 energy audits in
its power stations every year whereby efficiency
of equipment and plants is enhanced through
implementation of recommendations emerging out
of energy audit reports. During the year 2003-04,
194 energy audits were carried out at
different NTPC stations in addition to daily
energy surveys and day to day monitoring of
auxiliary power consumption. In addition, NTPC
has also installed non-conventional energy
gadgets like solar water heaters, solar water
pumps, solar PV lights, bio-gas and bio-mass
plants and adopted energy saving technologies
like vapour absorption machines for air
conditioning, variable frequency drives, soft
starters, energy efficient lighting lamps and
gadgets etc. On account of such specific efforts
towards energy conservation, an energy
savings amounting to the tune of Rs. 26.72
crores have been achieved during the year
2003-04.
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