3/17/2018 Sustainability Marketing

Project Report

Raveen Rachit (UEMF17020)

 About the company

Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL) is a major business conglomerate in India with a significant
presence in steel, power mining and infrastructure segments. With an annual turnover of US$ 2.68
billion, it is part of the US$ 18 billion diversified O.P. Jindal Group. JSPL is led by its Chairman Mr
Naveen Jindal, the youngest son of Shri O.P. Jindal. The company has the distinction of producing the
world’s longest rails of 121 metres, large sized parallel flange beams, high strength angle irons for
transmission towers and high strength
earthquake resistant TMT rebars. JSPL operates the largest coal-based sponge iron plant in the world
with an installed capacity of 3.25 MTPA of steel at Raigarh in Chhattisgarh. The company has a total
installed steelmaking capacity of 6.75 MTPA and aims to grow in a holistic manner and contribute
substantially to India’s long-term growth story.

Power has three critical attributes - Generation, Transmission and Distribution. The Government’s
initiation of the Ujjwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana (UDAY) – a revival plan for DISCOM’s with a
view to improve operational efficiencies and enforce financial discipline, augurs well for the power
sector. This initiative will enhance the country’s
distribution muscle and is envisaged to have a positive impact on the entire value chain of the Power
sector in India.

Jindal Power Limited (JPL), is a wholly owned subsidiary of JSPL. It is India’s first private sector
entity to have set up a mega powerplant (1000 MW capacity) at Tamnar, Chhattisgarh. We take pride
in the fact that our plant has inspired almost 50,000 MW of power
generation capacities in the private sector. The plant has received various prestigious awards for project
management and operational efficiencies. Buoyed by the success of its 1000 MW plant, JPL further
expanded its presence in Tamnar with a 2400 MW (4X600 MW) thermal power plant. With the
completion of 2400 MW expansion project, JPL became the largest power station complex in the state
of Chhattisgarh — a 3400 MW facility at a single location. A 6.9 km long cross-country conveyor belt
(second longest in Asia) was installed to feed coal to the plant. Moreover, it reported PLFs, which are
industry benchmarks. JPL has built a 258-km long 400-KV double circuit transmission line to connect
to the National Grid. This has inspired many private players to enter the transmission business.

Today, we are contributing significantly to the growing needs of power in the country; and have an
installed capacity of over 5000 MW, across the regulated and captive sector in India.
Jindal Power Limited (JPL) is among India’s leading power companies across the energy spectrum:
thermal, hydro and renewables. During FY 2015-16, JPL witnessed increased power purchase
agreements (PPAs) as a result JPL has over 30% tie up of total capacity. The Company maintained its
generation levels, fully aligned with the PPA commitments and merchant market demand through a
judicious coal-sourcing mix from coal linkage and e-auctions. JPL emerged as the best performer in
Ministry of Power and Central Electricity Authority (CEA) project execution excellence study and
won two National Awards- Gold Shield and Silver Shield for early completion of Thermal Power
Projects. JPL’s OP Jindal Super Thermal Power Project (STPP) Unit 2 (600 MW) won the ‘Gold
Shield’ and Unit 1 (600 MW) won the ‘Silver Shield’ for the year 2013-14 in the category of ‘Early
completion of Thermal Power Projects’.

JSPL’s Business Sustainability Initiatives

It has been an extraordinary year at JSPL. The company faced unprecedented challenges due to
external circumstances, and yet we turned this in to an opportunity for us to emerge as a more efficient,
process-oriented, and leaner organization. We remained focused on our priorities and did not let short-
term challenges sweep us off our chosen growth path. We instead invested in identifying the gaps in
our ways of operation and looked at what we can do better and took tangible steps to do so. For
instance, while on one hand a drop-in steel prices globally combined with policy changes in India
resulted in a challenging year for the company’s finances, we on the other hand adopted the framework
of ‘Theory of Constraints’ to restructure the company’s operations in order to increase efficiency and
adapt to new circumstances. There were also several strategic changes made to ensure safety of our
employees, and the well-being of the local communities around our manufacturing units. Internally,
we multi-skilled our employees and increased the scope of our social commitment. Also, two new
departments i.e. Energy Conservation, Risk & Compliance Management, were created, staffed, and
rolled out in the company by JSPL’s business sustainability department. In this context, we would like
to update you on the specific actions taken on the sustainability priorities that were set for 2017-18.

A) Ensuring 100% Compliances: Ensuring 100% compliances is the top most priority for JSPL. As
a strong step towards progress on this priority as mentioned earlier in the report, in June 2015 JSPL
established a well-endowed Compliance & Risk Management department. At all Indian sites
compliance & risk management officers were recruited internally. Framework, structure, and training
modules were rolled out for group-wide risk identification and mitigation. In conjunction with the
office of JSPL’s Company Secretary, Mr Ashish Gera was appointed as Coordinator for compliance
& risk management at JSPL to closely monitor and further develop compliance management at JSPL.
The department receives a strong endorsement from JSPL’s top management.

B) Ensuring Raw Material Security: It has been a milestone year for JSPL’s raw material
procurement strategy. The company reorganised itself from its backward integrated business model.
A detailed explanation of this is provided in the section ‘JSPL’s Sustainable Business Model’ of this
report. External sources for coal were identified and procured from. A new company Jindal trans
freight was created to ensure smooth logistics.

C) Establishing Sustainable Steel and Power Production Processes: Steel manufacturing through
DRI-EAF route is the most economical way of manufacturing steel, and is a popular
route especially in developing economies such as India and China. Yet the Net Sales Realisation (NSR)
of Indian steel manufacturers in the domestic market has been low in FY 2015-16. One of the main
reasons for this has been the dumping of steel by foreign companies in India. A report of the World
Steel Association in 2015 confirmed that market conditions for the steel industry will continue to be
difficult for a long time to come. Given this scenario, JSPL stepped up its search in 2015 for
technological advancements of its production processes so as to improve energy efficiency and
competitiveness of its products. Accordingly, for this purpose JSPL identified a technology called
Flexi Modular Furnace in collaboration with Tennova Group, Italy. Commissioning of the
modification has helped JSPL in reducing its energy foot print across the production chain by 0.151
Gcal/ tcs. Also, JSPL reported in its Business Sustainability Report 2014- 15 that on January 18, 2015
thirty-two students from Harvard
University and MIT visited JSPL’s coal gasification plant in Angul and wrote out an in-depth case
study about the lessons learnt by JSPL in building this plant. The book containing this case stud has a
dedicated chapter on India and was published in February 2016. You will find a copy of the book
chapter in the ‘Case Study’ section of this Business Sustainability report. JSPL is the first in the world
to integrate steel production with coal gasification technology.

D) Building an authentic corporate identity and brand JSPL’s Business Sustainability Report
2013-14 had reported that a series of employee surveys, SMS campaigns, and workshops with
employees and top management had been conducted by JSPL’s Business Sustainability department in
order to articulate JSPL’s corporate identity and brand.

E) Waste Management: JSPL has installed bio gas plants at Tamnar, Raigarh and Barbil for
managing bio-degradable waste generated at our plant locations. The gas generated out of these plants
is being utilised for preparing food at engineer’s mess and canteens. On November 25, 2015 JSPL
constituted a business unit for construction materials which also include products that are
manufactured from the waste material generated out of steel and power production process. Few
examples are cement, bricks, paver blocks, light weight aggregate, and road stabilizer.

F) Raw Material Management: JSPL’s leadership put in place a business plan for ensuring
its raw material security, ahead of the commencement of the reallocation process of coal blocks. A
Coal Management Group was constituted within the company, whose objective was to procure coal
both for steel and power business from the most appropriate and cost-effective external sources of
coal.
 Jindal Power Plant, Tamnar, Raigarh, Chhattisgarh

JSPL Partners with all Stakeholders

One of the major achievements for JSPL’s sustainability department during FY 2015-16 has been to
roll out a more structured way of stakeholder management. 15 key stakeholder types for the company
were identified, appropriate employees within the company were made custodians for each
stakeholder, and engagement plans were drawn out for various stakeholders
depending upon a prioritization of needs. An example of JSPL’s achievements in building a more
structured approach towards our stakeholders is the continuous review by JSPL’s sustainability
department of the company’s membership to various industry associations. There is a constant check
on engagement levels of the company with the industry associations, with a firm belief that we will
not spread ourselves thin but instead we will build deep relationships with a few industry associations.
Consequently, JSPL has been able to trim the company’s memberships to 19 industry associations in
2015, from 22 in 2014, and 41 in 2013. Engagements with these 19 industry associations are
meaningful and collaborative. While JSPL’s stakeholder engagement plan for different stakeholders
has a varied and tailored approach, yet overall there are also common norms that run across the
company’s relationship with all stakeholders. These norms in our stakeholder relationship are as
follows:
 Treat Stakeholder as Partners
 Be transparent
  Keep stakeholders Involved throughout the Project Lifecycle
 Monitor Stakeholder Engagement from time to time
 Maintain an ongoing two-way dialog process always
Frequent meetings and visits through regular meeting, giving quality time and listening to the need
and expectations, since inception of project and till date has been a regular affair. Be it the community
or the suppliers/vendors, or customers we build a long-term relationship. We analyse the mutual needs
and expectations and also the limitations. For example, few activities showcasing the relationship with
local communities around our plant include:
 Giving respect to the community needs/demands, activities are planned and executed through
participation of Village Panchayat and committees.
 Reaching out to the households in their good and unhappy times such as attending marriages,
bereavements, local festivals etc.
 Inviting the community members to special functions of the company such as Foundation day
celebration, Vishwakarma Puja etc.
 Helping the community members to access the benefits of Govt. schemes such as Disability
certificate, Aids and Appliances, Disability Pension, Trainings etc.

Sustainable Production

Regular environmental and social impact studies are undertaken to determine the effect of the
construction and operation of projects at selected sites. This is done before the commencement of
implementation of the project. All applicable statutory, environmental regulations, guidelines and
standards are adhered to and the power projects are equipped with state-of-the-art devices for the
control of pollutants to levels within required norms.
The effluent generated is treated and reused within the project boundaries for plantation, gardening
and for other non-critical applications such as dust suppression systems. The concept of zero discharge
of effluents is adopted. The fly ash produced during power generation is supplied to cement
manufacturing units and utilized for mine back-filling and brick-making units.
Air pollution - control devices with benchmark efficiency (Electro-Static Precipitators with 99.9%
efficiency) have been installed.
The following steps were taken towards environment protection at the company’s 1,000 MW plant at
Tamnar and coal mine during the year under report:
 About 1.18 lakh saplings were planted near the plant, coal mine area, Rabo Dam area and
nearby villages.
 Since 2005-06, 21, 45,690 saplings have been planted.
 Coal washery was commissioned in February 2013 to provide clean coal to the plant and to
reduce environmental impact.
 With a view to ensuring zero liquid discharge, a pipeline of 1005 metres has been laid for
utilization of treated sewage from sewage treatment plant at Shaktivihar-1 colony. The treated
sewage water is being used in horticulture.
 14, 26,600 bricks have been manufactured at the plant using fly ash. Only bricks made of fly
ash are being used in construction activities at the colony near the plant.
  A biogas plant with m3 capacity based on kitchen waste has been installed near industrial
canteen.
 Use of plastic at colony and hostels has been banned to promote the utilization of eco-friendly
jute bags.
 E-submission of Income-Tax documents, circulation of E-magazine and online processing of
annual performance appraisals have been initiated to reduce the use of paper.
 E-meetings are held via a state-of-the-art Telepresence Room established in Tamnar.
Safe and environment-oriented operations are a part of the company’s core values. Rooted in respect
for people, local communities and the planet, these goals reflect our desire to do the right thing.
Through its environmental initiatives, JPL is contributing to the conservation of the natural
environment.
Creating Smiles through Responsible Community Development
The Jindal Power plant is located near village Tamnar in Raigarh district of Chhattisgarh. The company
is currently working in 38 adopted villages/hamlets covering a population of about 41,000, adjacent to
the power project, mines and water reservoir areas at Tamnar.
The Company implements its community development programmes the following five thematic heads:
 Health and sanitation
 Education
 Livelihood
 Infrastructure development
 livestock
Summary of the interview with Mr. Ashish Gera (A.G.M), Jindal Power Limited, Tamnar. He is the
in charge of sustainability department in the power plant (600 X 4 = 2400 MW and 250 X 4 = 1000
MW)

The main concern for the interview was knowing about the things what Jindal power limited is doing
for being sustainable company specially after the Paris agreement and are they really taking it
seriously? Sustainability department was started in Jindal Power Limited (JPL) in FY 2013-2014 and
officers were assigned to take care of that in every department across JSPL group in Raigarh, Tamnar,
Angul, Barbil and Telsa.
Then my next question to him was that how does the sustainable things are taken care in the power
sector and how it is different from any other sector so as he said Power sector of any nation is the main
infrastructure back bone of the nation, it fuels the growth of the economy of the nation, in power plant
as we know we are dealing with idea of generating electricity and sublime to the consumers which
may be domestic, residential or industrial like steel industry, fertilizer industry and cement industry
the main ingredient to run these industry is power and power has to be generated in very responsive
manner like it should be an clean and green energy with high regard to environmental pollution
problems and they also aim for societal development parallelly in line with the growth.
Then my next question to him was that What percent of your capital expenditures are related to
sustainability then he said that 2% of the net profit is always kept for the sustainable things and they
ensure that money is spent very judicially for the work company has planned to do for the next financial
year. And if the profit hasn’t been that good then also Jindal doesn’t compromise with meeting the
sustainable goals as it is a non-negotiable thing as they believe that societal development is the most
important thing and that has to be always taken care of even if your profits hasn’t been that good how
you must have expected.
Then my next question to him was that how the employees are engaged in getting these sustainable
goals done and how much serious are they towards that? So, he said that all the nodal sustainable
officers who has been selected at different locations are not only good in their specialization but are
also good orators And they are brand ambassador also they are the one who are responsible for training
and advocating the benefits of sustainability of resources utilization, waste minimization and
conservation of natural resources and all these things are considered and taught to the employees and
he also told that all the localities of the tamnar are taught about the sustainability things through the
CSR activities which Jindal does. All the locals are taught about the problems which we may face in
the future due to global warming, pollution, climate change etc so they are educated how they can
manipulate the situation so beautifully by good practices and we can change the future. By adopting
the sustainable drive more business opportunities will knock your door for the future. Role of
horticulture department was also discussed as he told that they take care that education drive for the
plantation takes place and those plants are used which will use the minimum amount of water to grow.
Then next part what we discussed was how the waste management system works in JPL then he said
that all the wastes are collected from the employees home and then it is segregated as biodegradable
and non-biodegradable and then the biodegradable waste is taken to the biogas plant and the energy
from this plant is used to make food in the industrial canteens so that they can minimize the use of lpg
cylinders.
The next question what i asked him what are the major by-products of power plant operated by coal?
Then he answered the major by product is ash and in the brick plant the fly ash brick is made which is
very strong and have good compressive strength so that they can utilize it for construction purpose ,fly
ash is also used for making the asbestos sheet which is used in the homes and fly ash is also used for
making roads it is like wealth from waste .So my next question was does Jindal sells these bricks to
outside or is there any B2B marketing which takes place so he said that they follow both the strategies
they use the bricks themselves as well as selling it to the stakeholders and others were also aware that
Jindal is making good bricks at very subsidised price so they can avail it.
My next question to him was that when the power plant is planned to be set up then what strategies are
followed while buying the major power plant equipment’s? he said that the most important
equipment’s of power plant are boiler, turbine and generator and the rest equipment comes under
balance of plant like compressor house, oil house, cooling water plant etc. So, while buying this
equipment the considerations which they take care is mainly of cost implications and they do this by
checking the fuel consumption of the equipment, logistics of the equipment and the ease of
transportation of coal from the coal mines to the power plant via cheapest means.
My next question to him was about the challenges they had to face in the starting while setting up
sustainable development department in the Jindal power limited, Tamnar.Then he said that every
person he/she is champion in their own area then it is a blocked mindset which prevents you from
attaining excellence where as good furnished minds and great countries always think that my today
should be better than yesterday and my tomorrow should be better than today and there is great room
for improvement in my thought process and as well as increasing the equipment efficiency and
minimizing the waste the entire sustainability is based on this ,optimizing the resources that our future
generations continues to enjoy the benefits of our conservation activities today. So, the most important
thing was to penetrate the old mindset of the employees educating them, advocating them, presenting
case study of good organizations and not only restricting them from thinking of powerplant efficiencies
improvement but also the community development, environment protection and energy conversation
all the gametes of inputs and not only that the stakeholders were also involved while making the
strategies because then only it becomes the successful model.
Then I asked him that how the MD of the company Mr. Naveen Jindal was involved while making this
happen? He said that the drive came from the chairman only as he is very passionate about the
environment and he always questions them about the carbon footprint, new greener ways of
production, how can we become more renewable in our process all this things comes from the top only
and that is the reason you will find that the amount of plantation which is done inside the powerplant
is really more than any other powerplant.
Then we discussed about the competitors of Jindal power limited in this area? so he said that the
greatest power of Jindal power is that they have a very young work force with great skillset compare
to tata power and other power sector players so the difference lies there the younger the crowd the
better they can embrace the new technology and they are ready to get up for new challenges and if
your employees loves the challenges then your company is moving right direction and tatas on the
other hand have legacy of more than 115 years so one hand it is good to have a very diversified group
from salt to software to all the things they do but they but the things is they have a very matured work
force and to bring change in such a big organization it requires lots of time.
Then we discussed about the role of the Chhattisgarh government here? he said that they have a very
good patronise from Chhattisgarh development agency like Chhattisgarh renewable development
agency as they offer great subsidies to Jindal in form of adopting solar technology, biogas plant they
also encourage our employees to receive training under them so that energy conservation can be
realised for all the channels. Jindal group works with in the order of the govt and they always try to
reduce the use of the depleting resources and in the industrial park which Jindal have in raigarh they
always promote the new sources of energy and then try to implement that in the colony of the
employees like they have installed the solar panels in the roof of all the bungalows for hot water.

Reference

http://www.jindalsteelpower.com/
http://www.jindalpower.com/sustainable-process.html
http://www.jindalpower.com/
http://www.jindalsteelpower.com/sustainabilities/sustainability.html

Contact Details:
Ashish Gera (AGM), Jindal Power Limited, Tamnar, Raigarh, Chhattisgarh
Email id:[email protected]
Mobile: 7898905117