With the aim of ensuring minimum disturbance to the ecology, all possible precautions have been taken to avoid pollution. Effluent treatment and disposal systems in a number of chemical plants in India and abroad have been studied and a suitable system has been designed and built in consultation with specialists in effluent treatment and allied engineering activities. The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board has accorded formal approval after studying the effluent treatment system installed. There is zero liquid effluent discharge. Suitable modifications have also been made in the Urea plant to substantially bring down the noise and air pollution levels during plant start-ups and upsets.

A Urea Hydrolyser Stripper unit, at a cost of Rs.8 Crores, was added in 1990 to treat the effluent from the Urea and Ammonia plants and the outlet water from the Stripper is reused as cooling tower make-up.

As a good corporate citizen, the Company has gone beyond merely complying with the pollution control norms. We are committed to preserving and maintaining the ecological balance.

Change from a chromate-based program to a non-toxic phosphate based system was made in the cooling water treatment system in 1991.

The ambient air quality is monitored regularly at different locations inside and outside the factory premises. The pollutant concentration is well within the levels stipulated.