Thursday, June 14, 2012

World Environment Day Celebrated at Tata Power

Commemorated every year on 5th June, World Environment Day is one of the principal vehicles through with the United Nations stimulates the awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action. To spread this message and create awareness, the Tata Power Team at Noida celebrated World Environment Day.

The event was inaugurated by Mr. Sanjay Aggarwal, Chief Projects – Eastern and Northern Region where he briefed everyone about the importance of environment being a power company and also reminded everyone about their roles and responsibilities to become true sons and daughters of mother earth.

This was followed by a presentation on the key environmental initiatives being taken by Tata Power as a company and how these initiatives have played a imperative role in combating the various environmental challenges. Dr. Taruna Saxena from Corporate Sustainability and Environment Department was invited to hold a brainstorming session which resulted in identifying few targets which would be taken at divisional level to contribute towards the betterment of environment. This was one of the outcomes of the in house research being carried out to calculate the per capita consumption of paper and electricity.

The event ended with free saplings distribution to employees where the employees owning the sapling need to parent the sprout and make it grow into a tree. A quiz competition was also organized for the employees on the theme of environment.

Nature gives peace to the souls of men. Let us Save it..!