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Mycorrhiza technology was deployed for Jarofix Yard Restoration, Around 50,000 plants of 42 various species were planted at Biodiversity Park
Udaipur. Epitomizing to the company’s vision of ‘Protecting and enhancing biodiversity for a sustainable future’, Hindustan Zinc has won the ‘Most Innovative Environmental ProjectAward’for its Chanderiya Lead Zinc Smelter (CLZS) – Restoration of Jarofix Yard and‘Innovative Environmental Project Award’ for Biodiversity Park at Rajpura Dariba Mine -in therenowned CII National Award for Environmental Best Practices 2021.

Commenting on the accomplish ment, CEO of Hindustan Zinc, Mr. Arun Misra, said, “We at Hindustan Zinc strongly believe that our commitment to sustainability will lead us to a healthier and greener tomorrow not just for ourselves but also for future generations. As a responsible corporate, we have put before ourselves rigorous and ambitious Sustainability Development Goals 2025 and each step we take is directed to achieving them. The two projects including plantation of 50000 plants in Biodiversity Park at Rajpura Dariba Mine and developing green area on the waste land in collaboration with The Energy and Research Institute (TERI) have been recognized as innovative environmental projects by the industry and make us proud of our green steps. They exemplify our company’s vision of protecting and conserving the biodiversity around us to achieve a minimum of No Net Loss (NNL) of biodiversity and Net Positive Gain (NPG) of biodiversity at all our operations.”
Over 10 hectares of land withinthe Rajpura Dariba Minehas been developed as Biodiversity Park, wherein more than50,000 plants of 42 different species were planted. Earlier the entire area was covered with invasive species, after soil enrichment and conditioning, the area has now been converted into a green land. The Chanderiya Lead Zinc Smelter team in collaboration with TERI (The Energy and Research Institute) has used Mycorrhiza technology for the development of 3-hectareGreen area on its exhausted Jarofix Waste yard. The Mycorrhiza technology is a symbiotic association between a plant and a fungus, where the plant provides food for the fungus and the fungus draws nutrients from the soil and adds to the improvement of cultivation processes, rejuvenation of fertile soils, and reclamation of wasteland into productive land in a sustainable manner.
Among all the 196 Projects that had applied, the Restoration of Jarofix Yard Project and the Biodiversity Park Project were shortlisted in the 35 Environment Best Practice Projects.Tarun Meghwal- Sr. Manager Environment, Vijay Rana- Manager Process, Manisha Bhati – Deputy Manager Environment and Harish Chaturvedi– Executive Environment from the Chanderiya team and Vivek Kumar – Head Environment DSC and Himanshu Sharda – Team Member Environment RDM teampresented the project to jury members of esteemed Industry professional and received huge appreciation for the project and its implementation by the Jury Team.
This achievement is truly an honour for the entire Hindustan Zinc team for their commitment to the conservation of biodiversity. With this success, the Chanderiya Lead Zinc Smelter team and Rajpura Dariba Minesteam have created a benchmark project for the Mining and Metal industries.

The project has also been encouraging women farmers to come to the forefront of the field.
Udaipur. Hindustan Zinc on their quest to uplift communities around them,organised cattle health camps across 5 districts in Rajasthan throughout the month of July. Through their flagship project, SAMADHAN, they are aiming to improve the income of farmers and livestock rearers through sustainable farm based livelihood interventions. More than 35,800 cattle of over 3400 livestock owners including women farmers benefited from this drive.

With this project, Hindustan Zinc provides farmers with the right technical training and know-how to enhance their livelihood. The camp provided services for deworming, vaccination, artificial insemination (AI) as well as treatment for diseases related to monsoon season for livestock.
Dr. Netrapal Singh, Joint Director, Animal Husbandry Dept at Chittorgarh. Appreciated the efforts of Hindustan Zinc in the field of livestock development, “Hindustan Zinc has reached even the last frontier of the community to spread awareness regarding best practices in livestock development and animal welfare through these cattle health camps. Through this initiative, they have also worked on artificial insemination for breed improvement in livestock.”
Community Development at Hindustan Zinc includes health and wellbeing of not just local communities, but also extends to their sources of livelihood – their farms and livestock. Through SAMADHAN project, best scientific practices have been combined with technology along with inputs from domain experts to enhance the productivity of existing farm-based resources owned by 20000 farmers and livestock rearers. The cattle health camps ensure preventive and curative health, along with an increase in milk production capacity of cattle and breed improvement of livestock. The company’s aim is to make India better and to achieve that goal they want to empower the backbone of our country with their resources and expertise at every step possible.
SAMADHAN provides more than just cattle health camps and regular awareness sessions. They have designed a multi-prong approach that helped them reach out to more than 11, 500 families. They ensure the availability of fresh and high nutrition feed for cattle, providing 24/7 veterinarian services.
The intervention specializes in providing multiple types of services that are designed to meet the geographical requirement as well as region specific requirement of the beneficiaries. It also brings in global benchmark scientific practices to improve livestock productivity.
Through the farm based sustainable livelihood intervention, the organization has introduced sorted semen for female progeny in cows whose average milk production capacity is 1.5 times more as compared to average cows. Similarly, the organization has also introduced goat AI services. SAMADHAN project is implemented by Hindustan Zinc in technical partnership with BISLD.