Water & Effluent Treatment Business of L&T Construction enters the Guinness World Records
Chennai, Mar 22 (IBNS): L&T Construction, a brand of Larsen & Toubro, announced on Thursday that its Water & Effluent Treatment Business entered the Guinness World Records for conducting the ‘Largest Environmental Sustainability Lesson’ involving 2,289 students.
L&T Construction’s Water & Effluent Treatment Business initiated a mega awareness campaign as a part of the World Water Day 2018 celebrations across 130 schools in India, Sri Lanka and Tanzania to make more than 40,000 school students aware of the importance of sustainability.
The grand finale of the campaign was an ‘Environmental Sustainability Lesson’ conducted for 2,289 students at the SRM Easwari Engineering College, Chennai, which has been recognized as the largest such exercise and thus gained entry in the books of Guinness World Records on March 16, 2018, the company said.
The exercise involved a session convened by Dr. S. Kanmani, Director, Center for Environmental Studies, Anna University, along with Mohammad Ahmed Salah, Water Technologist, L&T, followed by the students answering an environmental questionnaire, which was adjudicated by the Guinness World Records' official adjudicator Swapnil Dangarikar.
Dangarikar subsequently confirmed the ‘world record’ and presented the official certificate.
“We are proud to have bagged this global accreditation because it is reflective of our core values of social consciousness and sustainable operations” said S Rajavel, Senior Vice President & Head, Water, Smart World & Communication.
“We have thus far helped meet the water needs of more than 15 million people across India and, in the process, have been striving to increase awareness about the importance of environmentally sustainable initiatives to create a better world for all,” he said.
Larsen & Toubro is an Indian multinational engaged in technology, engineering, construction, manufacturing and financial services with over USD 17 billion in revenue. It operates in over 30 countries worldwide.
L&T’s Water & Effluent Treatment business covers water infrastructure related to urban and rural water supply, water treatment plants, waste water treatment and collection network, industrial water and effluent treatment, desalination plants, lift irrigation projects, canal rehabilitation, unaccounted-for water (UFW) and water management contracts.
Image: L&T Construction/website
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