Neyveli Lignite Corporation has won the Scope Meritorious Award for Environmental Excellence and Sustainable Development for FY11-12. The company has bagged the award from the Standing Conference of Public Enterprises (SCOPE), an apex body of public sector organisations, to identify public sector organisations which have demonstrated extraordinary skills and have made a mark in chosen fields.
Neyveli Lignite Corporation is engaged in the business of lignite mining and power generation. At present, the company has four opencast lignite mines with a capacity of about 30.60 million tonnes per annum, while it can produce about 2,740 MW of power from four power plants. It is one of the best public sector units in the country and a best profit making company in the past 16 years.
