Company : Ashok Leyland Ltd

Income 2005-2006 =  Rs 4300 Cr  Mn (rounded off)

Net profit after  tax (05-06) = Rs  270 Cr  (rounded off)

Karmayog CSR Rating-2/5
 

CSR activities: Innovation in Safety, Health and Environment

Protecting flora and fauna in rainwater harvesting ponds

As a practice, rainwater-harvesting projects have been implemented extensively to improve the ground water table and the saved water used during summer to prevent depletion of ground water. Over the years, two artifi cial ponds with 40,000 KL and 10,000 KL capacities and a check dam of 30,000 KL capacity have been created at the unit.

• Reducing usage of ozone depleting substances
• Utilizing the natural temperature to cool down the Electro
• Deposition paint bath has reduced operation of the chillers  and
• the usage of the Ozone depleting R22 gas.

Resources 

No more wood in stillages At Ashok Leyland Hosur I, total wood consumption during 2005-2006 was more than 100,000 cubic feet. Out of this total consumption, close to 20% was used in making wooden ‘stillages’ used for packing engines to be transferred to other units. Cutting down this consumption became the goal. After analyzing various options, reusable

and returnable steel stillages were decided on. Factors like optimizing the size of the stillages, improving the engine loading layout in the truck and effective use of vertical space in a truck were also taken into account while designing the stillages. Further, it was also found that two-tier steel stillages helped more in effectively utilizing the vertical space in a truck. Carried out with an investment of aboutrupees four million the project involved extensive fi eld trials and some changes in the stillage design before it could be made fully operational. Today, usage of wood for transfer of engines to other units has been fully eliminated, saving wood to the tune of 43,610 cubic feet. That’s like planting more than 1,200 trees!

Life cycle assessment (LCA)          

In 2005-2006, Ashok Leyland and the University of Colorado Denver and Health Sciences Center (UCDHSC), USA, initiated a joint effort to explore the use of environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) to facilitate green engineering in India.

For more information about LCA in India, please contact:

Balachander G (bala.alc@ashokleyland.com) or Naveen Kumar (naveen.alc@ashokleyland).

More On CSR of this company :

 http://www.ashokleyland.com/images/downloads/presentations/CSR_report_final1.pdf

Amount spent on CSR: No information regarding the amount spent on CSR was available on the homepage .

Contact details : Ashok Leyland Ltd

Mr. Thomas .T. Abraham

GM - Corporate Communications

19, Rajaji Salai ,Chennai 600 001

Tel : 0091 44-25342141
Fax : 0091 44-25342493

Website address : www.ashokleyland.com