Vasundhara Awards by Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB)

Vasundhara Awards by Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB)
Thu May 3, 2012 10:39 pm (PDT)

VASUNDHARA AWARDS 2012 Instituted by: Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) GUIDEBOOK FOR INDUSTRY & URBAN LOCAL BODIES April, 2012 1.0 BACKGROUND
Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has announced the “Vasundhara Award 2012” to recognize the exemplary work carried out by Industries, Urban Local Bodies, Schools and Environmental Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) towards protection of environment in the State of Maharashtra.

2.0 OBJECTIVE
The “Vasundhara Award” aims to:- a. Recognize the efforts of industries, urban local bodies, schools and environmental Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) who have made significant contributions to sustainable development and made measurable improvements to their performance, whilst achieving their own business plans, service functions and societal objectives;
b. Put forward role models in sustainable development for Indian industries, urban local bodies, schools, and NGOs for others to get inspired;
c. Align with international best practices of promoting efforts beyond compliance by practicing sustainability.
3.0 WHAT ARE THE CATEGORIES OF THIS AWARD? MPCB has instituted the ‘Vasundhara Awards’ broadly in four categories. These categories are:

i. Industry Under the industry category there will be following two sub-categories: a. Large Scale Industries [Capital Investment (*) over 10 crore] b. Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME)[Capital Investment (*) up to 10 crore] (*): Note: Capital investment in plant and machineries. Ref: Notification dated 29th September 2006 by Ministry of SSI, GOI. ii. Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) Under the ULBs category there will be following two sub-categories: a. Municipal Corporations b. Municipal Councils, Cantonment Boards This Guidebook is for the applicants of the Industry and ULB categories 4.0 WHAT IS THE AWARD? Award will be given citing the facility for which application is made in the following forms: a. Award delivered through a well publicized function or an event – that can mean “recognition”; b. A trophy/memento and a citation; c. Cash prize; Three awards (First, Second and Third) under each category/ sub-category will be given by MPCB. 5.0 WHEN WILL THE AWARDS BE GIVEN? For Industry and Urban Local Bodies categories the winners will be announced on 5th June 2012. 5.0 WHAT IS THE ELIGIBILITY OF THE AWARD? 5.1 Industry • Industries complying with all applicable environmental regulations over past three years (viz. January 1 2009, 2010 & December 31, 2011). • Industries without any show cause notice or litigation by MPCB or Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in past three years (viz. January 1 2009, 2010 & December 31, 2011). • Industries operating/ having facilities in the State of Maharashtra. 5.2 Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) • ULBs in the State of Maharashtra. 6.0 AWARD MANAGEMENT PROCESS MPCB has appointed Expert Committee for assisting the award process. 7.0 CONSTITUTION OF THE TECHNICAL COMMITEEES For each of the categories, MPCB has formulated Technical Committees consisting of reputed personalities. The Committee members with the assistance of MPCB Officials will evaluate the Applications and make recommendations for the Award. 8.0 ASSESSMENT PROCEDURE The assessment of application would be carried out in three stages as given below: 8.1 Stage-1: Initial assessment 􀂙 Screening against the eligibility criteria. 􀂙 Checking for completeness. Only complete applications shall be considered for evaluations. 􀂙 Initial assessment against the evaluation criteria. 􀂙 Short listing of applicants for detailed assessment. 8.2 Stage-2: Detailed Assessment 􀂙 Shortlisted applicants shall be called for interview and presentations to the Award Committee. This will lead to a final round of the shortlisted applicants. 8.3 Stage-3: Final Assessment 􀂙 Conduct of site visit for better understanding as well as verification. Visits will be conducted a Team consisting members of the Technical Committee, and MPCB officials . 9.0 ASSESSMENT CRITERIA The broad assessment criteria for the two categories viz. Industry and ULB are highlighted below: 9.1 Assessment Criteria for Industries Industries would be evaluated based on the following five broad criteria. The Technical Committees will refine these criteria further and establish an appropriate scoring framework: 1. Consistence compliance 1.1 Status of compliance to legal and market based requirements (if any or applicable) for past three years. (viz. January 1 2009, 2010 & December 31, 2011) 1.2 Documentation on procedure/ process that shows pro-activeness of the industry towards legal compliance and if applicable with market requirements 2. Institutional capacity, Training and Awareness 2.1 Environment/ EHS Organization Structure, Function and reporting, Staff strength and Qualifications 2.2 Training on environmental matters of the personnel in the Cell and across the Industry 2.3 Awareness programmes carried out on environment for staff, across supply chain and neighborhood communities 3. Adoption of Management Systems approach 3.1 Environmental Management System 3.2 Other Management Systems such as on Occupational Health & Safety, Quality Management Systems 3.3 Systems set up to meet international initiatives like Equator Principles, Charters such as International Chamber of Commerce Business Charter for Sustainable Development, Codes of conduct of the Buyers for meeting Eco-labels etc. 4. Innovation: Trends/ incremental change in past three years (viz. January 1 2009, 2010 & December 31, 2011) in the following areas 4.1 Material use efficiency 4.2 Water use efficiency 4.3 Energy use efficiency 4.4 Reduction on waste & emissions through adoption of cleaner technologies, recycle, recovery and reuse 4.5 Eco-design of products, packaging and strategic product distribution 5. Performance beyond compliance 5.1 Social Responsibility (Social/ Community Initiatives) 5.2 Extended Producer Responsibility over supply chain 5.3 Sustainability Reporting & Public Disclosure 5.4 Effort towards reduction of Green House Gas (GHG) Emissions Applicants are encouraged to visit the following websites to see good examples of industrial practices on environmental management: World Business Council for Sustainable Development: http://www.wbcsd.org/templates/TemplateWBCSD5/layout.asp?MenuID=1 UNEP Division of Technology, Industry and Economics http://www.unep.fr/en/ International Institute for Sustainable Development http://www.iisd.org/ IFC Sustainability – Environment, Health and Safety Guidelines http://www.ifc.org/ifcext/sustainability.nsf/Content/EnvironmentalGuidelineshttp://www.ifc.org/ifcext/sustainability.nsf/Content/EnvironmentalGuidelines 9.2 Assessment Criteria for Urban Local Bodies Urban local bodies would be evaluated based on the following five broad criteria: 1. Institutional capacity, Training, Awareness and Reporting 1.1 Environmental Cell, Its structure, function and reporting, Staff strength and Qualifications 1.2 Training on environmental matters of the personnel in the Cell and across the ULB 1.3 Awareness programmes carried out on environment for staff of ULB and communities 1.4 Reporting & Communication: e.g. Environmental Status Report (ESR) 2. Water supply 2.1 Initiatives for improving sustainability of existing water resources 2.2 Percent of unaccounted water 2.3 Water supply service level (Per capita water supply, Supply duration, Supply pressures, Equity in water supply) 2.4 Attainment of water quality standard at various points of delivery 2.5 Energy consumed per unit of water supplied 3. Sewerage & Sanitation 3.1 Percent of population catered to by underground sewer network 3.2 Percent of treated sewage that meets the applicable legal standard 3.3 Percent of slum population having access to pay & use toilet 3.4 Percent of sewage recycled or used for beneficial purposes such as land irrigation 3.5 Energy consumed per unit of swage collected and treated 4. Solid waste management 4.1 Percent of solid waste collection out of total solid waste generation 4.2 Percent of solid waste disposed to landfill out of total solid waste generation 4.3 Percent of solid waste converted into compost 4.4 Percent of collection & treatment of biomedical waste at common facility. 4.5 Status on the collection & disposal of construction & demolition waste. 5. Green initiatives Green initiative could include Eco-housing policy, promoting eco-friendly Ganapati Utsav, facilitating local initiatives such as ALMs (Advanced Locality management) in Mumbai,, Reduction of GHG emissions etc. Applicants are encouraged to visit the following websites to see good examples of practices of some of the ULBs on environmental management ICLEI- Local Governments for Sustainability http://www.iclei.org/ Best Practices for Improving Living Environment http://www.bestpractices.org/ Eco-cities India http://www.ecocities-india.org/ 10.0 RULES AND REGULATIONS i. Please provide all measurements in MKS system only. ii) Please provide the data with respect to per unit of production. E.g. For Textile: -per meter of cloth and for Dyes:- per ton of product iii) Please be precise in furnishing the information. iv) Please provide data for the last three calendar years (2009, 2010 & 2011) v) Use additional sheets, if necessary. vi) Decision of the MPCB ’on Vasundhara Award based on the recommendation of Technical Committees is final and no appeal or correspondence will be entertained. vii). MPCB shall not accept any kind of liability, loss or damage due to disclosure of information made by the Applicant to its Technical Committee members. MPCB will take reasonable precautions however to maintain confidentiality/ secrecy of information by requesting appropriate undertaking from the members of the Technical Committee . viii. All completed application forms shall be submitted in duplicate with relevant attachments ix). Application materials will have to be submitted only one time and not revised or supplemented. x) Application materials submitted will not be returned xi). MPCB and the Award Committee reserves the right to change the award criteria, at any time, if required or appropriate xii) Any attempts made to influence the members of the Technical Committee will lead to disqualification of the Applicant xiii). Shortlisted award applicants will may be invited to make presentation of their costs to Award Committee. xiv). Team members from MPCB consisting members of Award Committee and staff of MPCB may visit the premises/ site of the final round of shortlisted applicants for better understanding and for verification of the information. xv). The expenses to be incurred by the applicants for submitting the application, providing additional information that may be called for by the Jury/ Award Committee/ Member of the Assessment Team, for receiving of award, etc. shall be borne by the applicant. 11.0 NON-DISCLOSURE AND CONFIDENTIALITY Names of applicants, information, data and results of assessment will be kept confidential. Such information would be available to only to those officials/ members of award committee directly involved in assessment and administrative process. Please be assured that such information would not be used for any investigative or litigation purposes by the MPCB. MPCB proposes to publish a compendium of good practices based on the information provided by the Award winning Applicants. MPCB on discussions and consent of the Award winning Applicant will process such information in releasing such a compendium. 12.0 APPLICATION FEES There are no fees for participation/ application for all categories. 13.0 APPLICATION FORMS Please download the Application Form from website of MPCB: http://www.mpcb.gov.in Completed application form with relevant attachment shall be submitted in duplicate. 14.0 LAST DATE FOR SUBMISSION OF APPLICATION S. No. Category Last Date of Submission of Application i. Industry 07.05.2012 ii. Urban Local Bodies 07.05.2012

The application received after Last Date Submission will not be considered. 15.0 ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDANCE Sealed applications complete in all respects and in duplicate with cover marked as VASUNDHARA AWARD 2012 should reach the following address:
The Member Secretary, Maharashtra Pollution Control Board, Kalpataru Point, 3rd Floor, Opp. Cineplanet, Near Sion Circle, Sion (E), Mumbai – 400 022
For any clarification, information or help, applicant may contact: Mr. Sanjay Bhuskute, Public Relation Officer, Maharashtra Pollution Control Board, Kalpataru Point, 3rd Floor, Opp. Cineplanet, Near Sion Circle, Sion (E), Mumbai – 400 022 Tel: (022) 2402 0781/ 2401 0437 Mobile No. 9869440185 **************************************************** URL: http://www.mpcb.gov.in/vasudharaaward12/Guidebook_VasundharaAward2012.pdf