OREANDA-NEWS. June 7, 2012. TRL Krosaki Refractories celebrated the 41st World Environment Day on June 5, 2012, in its factory premises at Belpahar. Hridesh Sehgal, vice president, operations, was the chief guest; Pradeep Kumar Patel, vice president, engineering, was the president of the function; and Saroj Kumar Patra, vice president, TRL Krosaki Shramik Sangha, was the guest of honour at the function.

At a well-attended function, the chief guest hoisted the World Environment Day flag. Mr Patra, in his speech impressed upon the requirement of conservation of environment with the growth of industrialisation. According to Mr Patel, conservation of environment is not a single department’s job, but it is everybody’s responsibility. He appraised the gathering about the facilities developed and measures initiated by TRL Krosaki Refractories for conservation of the environment, such as new effluent treatment plant, impervious lagoons, secured engineering landfill, pulsejet dust filter units, electrostatic precipitators, environment laboratory with high quality equipment, plantation of 4.2 lakh trees till date and distribution of 50,000 seedlings every year to the nearby villagers. Mr Patel also appraised the gathering about the future plans of the company, such as on-line air monitoring system, sewerage treatment plants, rainwater harvesting, etc. He praised everybody for their efforts in reducing the carbon emission by 3 percent with respect to last year. JK Patnaik, AGM, OT, welcomed the employees and KA Alam proposed the vote of thanks. Dr PK Panigrahi announced the activities planned for the month.

June 2012 is observed as Tata Environment Month in TRL Krosaki. Various competitions and shop floor training programmes, display of film, etc are planned to be conducted to educate the employees including contract workers.