NTPC Releases Biodiversity Policy 2022

 

Biodiversity Policy 2022: Relevance

• GS 3: Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment.

 

Biodiversity Policy NTPC: Context

• Recently, NTPC Ltd issued a renewed Biodiversity Policy 2022 to establish a comprehensive vision and guiding principle for conservation, restoration, and enhancement of biodiversity.

Biodiversity Policy 2022: Key points

• This Biodiversity Policy is an integral part of NTPC’s Environmental Policy. Its objectives are aligned with environmental and sustainability policies.
• Moreover, the policy is also designed to support all the professionals of the NTPC Group to help them contribute toward the achievement of the targets set in this field.
• NTPC has always been mindful about avoiding operations in areas with the highest biodiversity value and judiciously selecting project sites.
• The company will further strengthen its current efforts to achieve a ’no net loss’ of biodiversity at all of its currently operating sites and ensure there is a net positive balance wherever applicable.
• NTPC was the first PSU to issue Biodiversity Policy in 2018.

 

 

NTPC recent environmental initiatives

• NTPC is raising awareness among local communities, employees, and its associates across the supply chain about biodiversity through project-specific and national level trainings in collaboration with experts.
• NTPC is also collaborating with local communities, organizations, regulatory agencies and research institutes of national/international repute in the field of biodiversity.
• Further, NTPC will be adhering to legal compliances with respect to biodiversity by complying with rules and regulations related to the environment, forest, wildlife, coastal zone, and green cover during planning and execution of its projects.
• In a major initiative undertaken by NTPC, it has signed a five-year agreement with Andhra Pradesh Forest Department for conservation of Olive Ridley Turtles in the coastline of Andhra Pradesh.
• With the Financial Contribution of Rs. 4.6 Crores and increased participation of community, the no. of hatchings released in sea water as increased about 2.25 times since intervention by NTPC.

 

 

About NTPC

• NTPC Ltd. is India’s largest integrated energy producer under Ministry of Power established in 1975.
• NTPC became a Maharatna company in May 2010. As of January 2020, there are 10 Maharatnas CPSEs in India.

 

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