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At Arvind, it is firmly believed that a successful company must play an active
role in the development of the society from which it springs. Besides pursuing
its business goals, it should also be responsible corporate citizen. It is
because of these beliefs that Arvind is always on the forefront of extending a
helping hand for the needy, downtrodden and for the society at large.
Arvind has always been actively involved in the educational institution,
hospitals and research institutions of Ahmedabad, its hometown. It co-pioneered
the world renowned Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA), and helped
set up the Ahmedabad Textile Industry Research Association (ATIRA), and The
Kasturbhai Lalbhai Textile Training Center to develop and enhance the skills of
textile workers.
The Narottambhai Lalbhai Rural Development Fund and The Lalbhai Group Rural
Development Fund where founded to undertake special programs for the
economically deprived. It also assists the nearby villages, through nutritional
programs, food camps and the harnessing of solar energy.
SHARDA TRUST
At Arvind, we believe in repaying to society in our own little way through a
social arm of ours –
Sharda Trust
Established in 1995 with the support of Arvind Mills, “Strategic Help Alliance
for Relief to Distressed Areas” (SHARDA), its purpose is to help the urban poor
in improving their quality of life. The Trust has based its strategy on the
premise that a family has five basic needs, listed below and ranked according to
their priority. These are:
Basic physical infrastructure for clean potable water at the door steps in
adequate quantity at convenient hours, individual toilets and hygienic
surroundings.
Primary health-care.
Access to high quality secondary and tertiary health care.
Reading, writing and arithmetic skills (3Rs) for all.
Skill and ability to compete in today’s environment.
SHARDA Trust joined hands with the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation to upgrade
the physical environment and living conditions in a slum pocket called “Sanjay Nagar.” The Municipal Corporation assigned the task of implementation to this
Trust, which completed the project within time and budget. So innovative was the
Trust's approach, that on 7 August 1998, the United Nations Centre for Human
Settlement (UNCHS) included the Sanjay Nagar project in its "100 Best Practices
Global List".
Subsequently, the Trust has taken several initiatives like providing secondary
and tertiary healthcare to the urban poor through networking with prominent
hospitals in the city. About eight hundred patients have benefited and
approximately Rs.13 lakh have been spent on this activity.
The Trust collaborated with the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT),
Gandhinagar, and helped the urban poor to train in the area of sewing machine
operation. The Trust also organized placement activity with the local garment
manufacturers and has so far trained and placed over 300 persons in Ahmedabad.
Spoken English and basic mathematics for the youth belonging to poor families
and providing them with computer skills is the other activity that the Trust has
undertaken in collaboration with the Chandraprasad Desai Memorial Foundation.
The Trust is poised for a rapid expansion in all its projects.
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Arvind & Environment
A) Environmental Policy:
Arvind Mills commits itself to continually improve our environmental
management. It strives to go beyond the requirements of the
applicable environmental laws & other regulations through:
Optimizing usage of cotton, energy, chemicals & water.
Adopting preventive strategies to reduce the generation of
effluents, waste & air emissions.
Maximizing the recycling of inevitable wastes.
Encouraging suppliers & buyers to become environmentally
responsible.
Maintaining a safe working environment.
Increasing the green cover.
Training employees on environmental issues.
B) Effluent Treatment Facilities:
All the production / processing units are provided with adequate
wastewater / water treatment facilities, to meet the requirements of
regulating authorities as well as our reputed customers like Levis,
Nike etc.
Arvind Mills at Santej has one of the largest effluent recycle
plants in Asia with recycling capacity 10,500 m3/day. The latest &
best of the technologies available in water / wastewater treatments
can be seen in operation in this plant.
The Arvind International (division) has Effluent recycling
facilities comprising Chemical, Biological & tertiary treatment and
it is of 800-m3/day capacity. The plant also has ISO 9000 & ISO
14000 certification.
Arvind Mills @ the main site at Naroda also possess chemical,
biological treatment facilities to treat 10000 m3/day of effluents
to meet the pollution control board norms.
Ankur Mills (division) has Effluent treatment plant of 1600-m3/day
capacity with chemical & biological treatment facility to achieve
the pollution board norms.
Arvind Mills (Garment exports division) is setting up a new garment
unit at Mysore road, Bangalore, along with Effluent treatment plant
of 1450 m3 /day capacity. This plant also possesses chemical,
biological & tertiary treatment facilities to achieve the State
Pollution Control Board norms. The uniqueness of this plant is – all
it’s process water requirements will be attained through recycled
sewage water of Bangalore City.
C) Air pollution Control
Arvind Mills has switched from liquid fuel to Natural gas for all
their heating & steam requirements in order to avoid the air
pollution.
D) Solid waste Management
All the units believe in waste minimization measures. All the ETP
plants are provided with adequate sludge Dewatering facilities.
Units at Santej, Naroda, Arvind International & the upcoming
Bangalore unit are provided with Decanter Centrifuges for sludge
de-watering. De-watered sludge is dried in solar evaporation pans
for further volume reduction. Waste oil generated in all the units
is recycled. Polythene liners, Discarded containers are disposed off
to the respective buyers.
E) Afforestation & Rain water Harvesting
Units at Khatrej & Santej have very good afforestation & green
belts.
The Santej unit has more than 1 lakh trees & other shrubbery. Plants
like Jetropha (seeds used for Biodiesel generation) are grown
extensively. ETP treated water is used for this plantation so as to
minimize raw water consumption. Beautiful lawns with Fountains are
part of the landscape.
At the Santej unit ground water recharging facility is also
developed where in yearly about 40 MLD rain water is recharged in to
ground water table. Two recharge ponds with a capacity of about 4000
m3 are made & Rainwater during the monsoon is collected in these
ponds & recharged in to Ground water table.
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