Reducing other significant air emissions ITC Units ensure that their discharges into the external physical environment are well within the specified threshold levels. The Company is setting up detailed systems to account for total air emissions. The adjacent diagram shows the estimated emissions in 2003–04 from Units with significant emissions.

Ozone-Depleting Substances (ODS)

India is a signatory to the Montreal Protocol of 1987. The Government of India has consequently formulated a policy to phase out various ODS on a priority basis.

ITC Units continue to scrupulously follow the Government policy on ODS and have exhaustively identified equipment for replacement. These equipment are being phased out in a planned manner. Progress is monitored in periodic EHS Audits of individual Units.