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Your Company has made efforts to ensure that there is no cool air leakage from its premises and has adoptedmeasures to
ensure optimum usage of air conditioners throughout its premises. A building automation system has been implemented
to control working of air conditioners and to make themmore power efocient. The power consumption of air conditioning
has been reduced by 18% since the cold aisle containment work has been completed in Data center, Hinjawadi.
VFDsystemhasbeeninstalledforfreshairAHU’sinair-conditioningsystems.AsapartofyourCompany’sGreenMovement,
two 2.1 M: windmills are operational at Dhule and Sangli Districts of Maharashtra. During the onancial year 2016-17,
Dhule windmill generated 4,124,745 units and Sangali windmill generated 2,939,333 units.
Your Company has installed Ozone based air conditioning systems at a few locations. Modiocations have been made in
Data Centre arrangement to reduce power consumption. Ground water is used for landscaping to reduce consumption
of treated water. A Sewage Treatment Plant was installed at the Gargi-Maitreyi in Nagpur, Aryabhata-Pingala in Pune
facilities of your Company and recycled water through these plants is used for gardening.
Your Company celebrated ‘No Plastic Days’ to promote awareness of using plastic and encourage employees to carry
cloth or paper bags whenever possible. ‘=ero Plate :astage :eek’ was another event celebrated in all Company facilities.
All the waste papers are shredded and disposed to scrap at all facilities.
All the facilities of your Company are certioed by DNVG/ for ISO 14001:2004 and OHSAS 18001:2007 certiocations
after recertiocation audit and are now initiated for upgrading Environmental Management System Standard by
ISO 14001:20015. Further, your Company has been certioed by the American Global Standards for ISO 14064-1:2006
(Green House Gases Inventory) for all facilities in India for the onancial year 2015-16. Best practices to preserve the
environment are undertaken by your Company even during constructing its various premises by using crush sand, py
ash bricks and double glass unit, use of gypsum and recycled wood to protect the environment.
Your Company undertakes various initiatives to save energy. A 250 K: rooftop solar power plant was commissioned on
the terrace of Aryabhata – Pingala facility on April 30, 2015 and it generated 180,349 units in the onancial year 2016-17.
Efforts are being made to increase the plant efociency. The chiller replacement work has been completed at Bhageerath
facility to ensure higher efociency and it saves around 37% of the air-conditioning consumption. The Old UPS system
was replaced by modular higher efociency UPS system at all the facilities and it resulted in 18% power saving in UPS
power. Cold aisle containment work was completed in Hinjawadi Data Centre to reduce the power consumption by 19%.
It is your Company’s constant endeavor to conserve and save the Environment and hence your Company has launched
the Green Persistent Movement to support the same.
As power cost constitutes an insigniocant part of the total e[penses, the onancial impact of these measures is not
material.
As your Company has not entered into technical collaboration with any entity, there are no particulars relating to
technology absorption.
The particulars of e[penditure on Research and Development on accrual basis are as follows:
(In
`
Million)
Particulars
Year ended on March 31
2017
2016
Capital e[penditure
-
0.11
Revenue e[penditure
543.76
62.47
Total research and development expenditure
543.76
62.58
As a percentage of total income
2.98%
0.41%
The particulars of foreign e[change earnings and outgo, based on actual inpows and outpows are as follows:
(In
`
Million)
Particulars
Year ended on March 31
2017
2016
Earnings
16,115.01
12,361.34
Outgo
5,402.11
2,573.12