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Sustainable Development Services
NFL has taken various initiatives in adopting best practices for Environment Management, Energy Conservation and Social Upliftment leading to sustainable development. Use of cleaner and greener fuel i.e. Natural Gas as feed and fuel in NFL Plants. One of the major milestones achieved by NFL in this direction is switchover of all its fuel oil feedstock plants at Nangal, Panipat and Bathinda, to Natural Gas (NG), the cleaner and energy efficient fuel. With this initiative, Company’s 100% Urea production is now based on gas as feedstock. In addition to above, specific energy consumption has also come down by more than 20 %. NFL has also switched over the support fuel in the coal fired boilers at Panipat, Bathinda Nangal to NG from fuel oil. This has eliminated use of fuel oil besides improving reliability and reducing carbon footprints.
- 100 KW Solar Power Plant at Corporate Office has been commissioned in August’ 2014 is running satisfactorily. Also, 90 KW Solar Power Plant at Bathinda Unit has been installed in December 2014.
- To increase the subsoil water level, Manufacturing Units of NFL have installed Rainwater Harvesting.
- All conventional lights at Units and Corporate Office have been replaced with LED lights.
- Development of Township at Vijaipur as Mini Smart City: Under new development model as per directives of the Hon’ble PM during CPSEs Conclave 2018, NFL has committed to convert its Vijaipur Township into a mini Smart City by March 2022.
- In order to build mini smart city at Vijaipur Unit, the company is currently undertaking various activities such as Zero Water discharge, Modern Sewage System, Solid Waste Management System, Rain Water Harvesting System, CCTVs, High Speed Wi-Fi, LED Lighting etc.