| Environmental Performance |
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| Air Quality |
| Automotives constitute a major part of our Group production and revenue. While we continue to make our vehicles more fuel efficient and compliant with new emerging pollution standards, we also focus on refining and modernising our production processes towards minimising our impact on air quality. |
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The Mahindra Group complies with the statutory emission norms of various governments
and agencies. Various pollutants are monitored on a regular basis at the industrial locations as well as some of the services locations. The Suspended Particulate Matter (SPM), Sulphur Oxides (SOx) and Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) are commonly monitored at all the manufacturing locations. Some of manufacturing plants monitor more specific pollutants related to their processes like Respirable Suspended Particulate Matter (RSPM), Carbon monoxide (CO), Methane (CH4), etc. |
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| The average concentration of the pollutants is well below permissible limits prescribed in the revised National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS, 2009). |
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| Air Quality Parameters (Stacks) 2010 - 11 |
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| Sector |
SPM |
SOx |
NOx |
| AD |
26.65 |
18.00 |
21.85 |
| FD |
55.25 |
15.35 |
49.40 |
| MTWL |
0.0596 |
0.039 |
0.0434 |
| Systech |
1,009.63 |
895.84 |
43.76 |
| MIL |
0.009 |
0.005 |
0.00001 |
| MHRIL |
19.11 |
2.68 |
4.84 |
| AM-MSB |
1.40 |
2.79 |
0.84 |
| MSat |
0.0000326 |
0.0000767 |
0.0000843 |
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| The sector-wise concentrations of the ambient air pollutants are the average concentrations of commonly monitored pollutants at various monitoring stations of various plants/locations of each sector. |
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The ambient air quality standards represented in the graphs are for the industrial area and time weighted average of 24 hrs. |
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| Last year we standardised 'tonnes' as the unit of reporting stack emissions and all our manufacturing plants now measure and report total stack emissions by weight. |