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Expectations from Budget 2020 India’s 1st monthly Magazine on CSR FEBRUARY 2020 VOLUME-8 ISSUE-10 `100/- www.csrvision.in Promoting Sustainability & CSR Expectations From Budget 2020 INTERVIEW OF THE MONTH GUEST COLUMN MR. RAJESH KUMAR SRIVASTAVA DR. SRIKANT SHARMA ONGC, Director (Exploration) MBBS, MD FEBRUARY 2020 NEW DELHI 1 From the Desk of Editor-in-Chief Dear Readers, against CAA by selected state governments etc. orchestrated Greetings, Happy Shivratri! by the opposition parties speak more powerfully about their intent India is going through a being more for their political ‘Article 11 vulnerable phase where gains, including the forthcoming responsible politics or absence elections other than national of the of it is making headlines not interests The entire opposition only in India but across the activities reflect a message that constitution globe. Citizenship (Amendment) public property, public order, Act (CAA) and National peace and national interest are confers power Register of Citizens (NRC) areas of concern only for the and the entire gamut of issues countrymen & the government on the relating to allowing Indian and not the political parties. So citizenship for the Hindu, Sikh, the political parties have the right parliament to Buddhist, Jain, Parsi, and to play with public order, public Christian religious minorities property, damage national image make laws of Pakistan, Bangladesh & globally for their political interests Afghanistan to save themselves and appeasing vote bank which regarding from religious atrocities which cannot be called responsible though look entirely logical politics/political culture by and under the mandate of the any standard. The quality of citizenship.’ constitution. Article 11 of the politics of a nation sets the tone constitution confers power on for responsible society and a the parliament to make laws responsible economy/business. regarding citizenship. Almost Therefore the politicians of all political parties accept BJP, any political party have a great JD(U), MNS are trying to block responsibility for building a the implementation of the act culture of responsibility in the which is already a law of the society which in turn can help land after the signature of the improve the economy/business President of India. The very and ultimately sustainability of idea of nationwide protest, the world. disturbing public life, damaging public property and passing of Prof. Ranjan Mohapatra resolution in state assemblies [email protected] 2 NEW DELHI FEBRUARY 2020 FEBRUARY 2020 NEW DELHI 3 CSR VISION Promoting Responsibility for Sustainability THOUGHT OF THE MONTH Editor-in-Chief “Businesses need to go beyond the interests of their Prof. Ranjan Mohapatra companies to the communities they serve.” Sub-Editor — Ratan Tata Rakesh Kumar Yadav Head of Finance-CSR Sudhir Kumar Panda Senior Correspondents Aniel Chaudhary Junior Correspondents CONTENT Anchal Keshwani Correspondents Jagnyadutta Mohanty Hemant Rout Sushant Kr. Raut Special Correspondents Senior Sustainability Expert Mukarram Mohammed (Dubai) Sangeeta Chaudhary Regional Director’s S.P. Singh, Jharkhand Deepak Pandya, Vadodara Photography Tekendra Adhikari Director CSR Communication COVER STORY COVER Sabyasachi Dutta National Co-ordinator EXPECTATIONS TOWARDS Udai Shankar Jha 30 Art & Design BUDGET 2020 Manish Sinha Strategic Brand Communication Advisor P. K. Mishra 03 l From the Desk of Editor-in-Chief Legal Advisor 06 Ashwani K. Dubey 09 l CSR News Media Adviser 40 | Project Report Mr. S. R. Ali INTERVIEW OF THE MONTH MR. RAJESH KUMAR 49 l Social Media Trends of the Month Printed, Published and owned by Pro. Ranjan SRIVASTAVA Mohapatra Printed at Pushpak Press Private Limited, Shed No.-203-204, DSIDC Complex, ONGC, Director (Exploration) 50 l Upcoming Events of the Month Okhla Industrial Area, Phase-I, New Delhi-110020. Published at C-7, 4th Floor, Amar Colony Market, New Delhi-110024, Ph.: +91 11 26239898, 26213930. 51 l Technology Benefiting CSR Responsible Under P.R.B. Act 1867 54 l Ads & Tariff All rights reserved. Reproduction in any form is 44 prohibited. The Contents of this publications reflect the views 55 l Ideal Projects of writers and contributors, not necessarily those of the publishers and the editors. All disputes are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of competent courts and forums in Delhi/New Delhi only. 57 l Block Advertisements CSR VISION does not accept responsibility for GUEST COLUMN returning manuscripts and photographs. All DR. SRIKANT SHARMA 58 l Innovative CSR News submitted materials should contain self-address, MBBS, MD e-mail id, blog details (if only). All disputes are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of competent courts and forums in Delhi/New Delhi only. 4 NEW DELHI FEBRUARY 2020 FEBRUARY 2020 NEW DELHI 5 INTERVIEW OF THE MONTH INTERVIEW OF THE MONTH CSR VISION: R. K. Srivastava, Director our good work rather than expecting others processing of Municipal Solid Wastes Exploration of ONGC with an illustrious to follow the right path. is still a major challenge, where more career spanning 35 years and national Ideally all corporates public or private, innovations/technologies are needed. mineral award in 2009, How do you see need to be responsible to all stakeholders ONGC as responsible corporate is the impact of ONGCs exploration activity and environment. ONGC, as said earlier, committed to these missions and had on the environment? believes in “being a leader” rather than taken up many initiatives through our ANSWER: Our Company has always waiting for others to set the ball rolling. diversified CSR activities. maintained a healthy relationship with environment. Adequate checks and CSR VISION: As you know, CSR & CSR VISION: As an experienced balances are maintained to ensure no Sustainability domain opens up huge technocrat, playing a technology harm comes to our ecosystem. It may possibilities for innovation, what would leadership based function. What role be pertinent to mention that exploratory be your thought on key areas of innovation technology can play in developing a activities especially survey are purely for building a sustainable environment sustainable society and sustainable temporary in nature and any change in and sustainable society. environment,in that process what role environmental conditions is restored ANSWER: Building a sustainable ONGC can play? immediately leaving no footprints. Our environment and leaving our mark for ANSWER: ONGC has always spearheaded company always ensures due diligence in benefits of society is a serious concern the induction of the latest cutting edge the procedures laid down under the law of our company. Our attempts to spread technology at all times. As a latest of land as well as by regulatory bodies. All this awareness about environmental endeavour, Ocean bottom Nodes (OBN) requisite permissions are obtained prior to concerns is seen in terms of our offices as technology, which reduces interference beginning any exploratory activity. After well as operational areas. We are working with local fishing activity in offshore apart completion, the company also ensures the towards “Plastic and Paper” free working, from giving us better seismic imaging is restoration of the operational areas to their while maintaining a high standard at being leveraged. In onland operations, original state. our office premises in terms of hygiene. this technology reduces the quantum of As a strategy we have adopted many eco- In terms of operations, we are working ground electronics, thereby cutting down friendly measures to contain and minimize on CO2 sequestration in one of our fields. crop damage. There has been a significant the impact to our environment.Use of bio- We are one of the few corporates which amount of technology enhancement in degradable chemicals for preparation of follows the GRI based extremely assumed logging tools, since as NMR, RT scanner, drilling fluids, Mobile ETPs at drill sites reports, which are now a major enabler sonic scanner etc, which give us better for recycling of waste water, HDPE linings to the company towards creating triple insights on presence of hydrocarbons and in Waste Water pit to prevent leaching bottom line value creation and parity to all reservoir analysis. and contamination of ground water, Bio- forms of capital. We are also a part of the I would like to emphasize that technology Remediation of oil soaked sand, Better UNFCCC Clean Department Mechanism has always been a driving force for our Quality Drilling Bits, Effluent Treatment (CDM) in terms of our 51 MW wind power industry and the services provide are Plants, Energy Efficient Generator Sets project at Surajbari Gujarat. We were also equally careful of the environmental and Motors, Lighting, Dynamic Gas a part of the Global Methane initiative impacts which delivering the new Blending in Drilling Rigs for reducing (GBM) in 2018-19 which covered 10 of technologies in a commercial form. MR. RAJESH KUMAR SRIVastaVA HSD consumption, etc. are to state a few our production installations. We are also a We are also having our footprint in examples. Ambient Air Quality is monitored part of the sustainable water management renewable energy and have an installed ONGC, Director (Exploration) regularly at our sites. projects at Bokaro, Rajahmundry, Uran capacity of 153 MW Wind Power and 25 and a few others. MW Solar Power generation. By FY’21 Mr. Rajesh Kumar Srivastava assumed the charge as Director (Exploration) of the Company on 02.08.2019. Mr. Srivastava acquired M.Sc (Geology) CSR VISION: Do you feel it is possible to The 17 UN Sustainable Development the Solar capacity will be 50 MW. We from Lucknow University and Master’s Degree in Engineering Geology from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He joined ONGC as Geologist in make corporate India responsible while Goals, is the ultimate strategy for achieving have installed 2,56,000 LED lights. 1984 at Krishna Godavari Basin, Rajahmundry. other domains of the country behave in sustainable Development. On this front,GoI Our focus areas are reducing the energy He began his career as an Exploration Geologist from geologically complex KG-PG Basin.
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