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Climate change mitigation and footprint conscious growth are embedded into our Sustainability Strategy. We focus on low carbon growth, use of alternative fuel, renewable energy, bio-mass etc. We continue to progress on our Renewable & Clean Energy Roadmap. As a part of that, we have installed 330 KV of Solar Power Station at Bhatapara, Chhattisgarh in 2012, in addition to the existing 7.5 MW of Wind Energy at Kutch, Gujarat commissioned in 2011. A 6.5 MW waste heat recovery based Power Generation System is being installed which is expected to be operational by 2014.

The Company is currently monitoring and reporting CO2 emissions as per the WBCSD Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI) protocol. We have been able to reduce our GHG emissions by almost 28% taking 1990 as the reference year. To reduce the carbon footprint & to avoid the use of natural resources, we continue to produce fly ash based cement as our major product. In 2013, we utilised over 5.7 million tonnes of fly ash. Continuing our participation in the Global Programme of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) we are currently pursuing two CDM projects on Smokeless Chulha in Community around our plants & Waste Heat Recovery based Power Generation in our integrated unit in Rabriwayas, Rajasthan.

India Cement Technology Roadmap- WBCSD CSI
The Company is one of the Co-chairs of CSI India & has been part of the Working Group that released the Low Carbon Technology Roadmap for Indian Cement Industry. In the same line, we have decided to initiate the phase II of the CSI project that envisages implementing the various levers outlined in the Technology Roadmap.

Carbon Disclosure Project, CII and WWF
As in the previous years, this year too, we participated in Carbon Disclosure Project and shared our Carbon Emissions as per the CSI Protocol.