Phulpur
Encyclopedia
Phulpur is a town and a nagar panchayat
in Allahabad district
in the India
n state
of Uttar Pradesh
. It is known for being the Lok Sabha
seat from which Jawaharlal Nehru
got elected to the Indian Parliament.
, Phulpur had a population of 21,066. Males constitute 54% of the population and females 46%. Phulpur has an average literacy rate of 60%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 70%, and female literacy is 49%. In Phulpur, 17% of the population is under 6 years of age.
established this College as its Secretary and Manager and named it in the name of Mrs.Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit the illustrious sister of the first Prime Minister of India Late Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru.This is the only institution in her name. She stayed in this College when she came to contest the parliamentary election after the death of Pandit Nehru.
Syed Jafar Raza Naqvi, Advocate a prominent Lawyer and a renowned personality is the Secretary and Manager of this prestigious Government recognized Minority institution since the year 1976 till date and is nurturing it with his sweat and blood.The College has NCC training facility and a fine Volleyball team. The institution is standing tall since Five Decades and providing quality education to poor and downtrodden at virtually negligible cost and producing excellent results in the Examinations Conducted by Board of Secondary Education.
The township Ghiyanagar (212404) is ISO14002 certified and is a very state of the art township with all the necessary facilities like hospital, schools, clubs, theatres and even petrol pump.
The mobile phone network is about the only thing that functions in Phulpur; the SDM's office doesn't even have a landline. It was disconnected after unpaid bills ran into tens of thousands of rupees. The SDM keeps in touch with his district on cellphone, but keeping it charged is a challenge. Electricity, assured for 18 to 20 hours in Allahabad, is never available for more than five hours a day here. But its people can't even complain: their voice in the Lok Sabha, don-turned-politician Ateeq Ahmed, is cooling his heels in Naini jail nearby.
It's a jail that resonates with history. Nehru and numerous other freedom fighters spent time here. They fought for freedom and the British threw them in Naini when their satyagraha and non-cooperation became too hot to handle. But Ateeq is here for violating, brazenly and crudely, the very laws that this jail's illustrious time-servers framed after India gained freedom.
Beyond its lifeless streets, algae-infested drains and garbage piles however, Phulpur is buzzing with talk these days. The big question is who will contest from here and who will win. Will it be Kapil Muni Kawariya, just nominated by the BSP? Or will it be the don himself or, if he doesn't walk free, his wife Shaista Parveen? Who will be the Samajwadi Party's candidate? Will Phulpur go unchallenged by Congress following its astonishing alliance with SP?
The answers will be known in time. But there's a larger question no one seems to have quite got the hang of: How did Nehru's Phulpur become the playing field of a don who defies everything that the maker of modern India stood for?
In many ways, Phulpur represents the fragmentation of Indian politics in the backyard of the Nehru-Gandhi family. Ateeq may not belong to the Congress, but he is a product of the nexus between crime and politics, a practice first developed by the Congress and later perfected by others.
Asked about this degeneration in public life, UPCC president Rita Bahugna Joshi feigns naive wonderment. "We never believed criminals would get voted to power," she says. Congress bosses say that when criminals began asking for election tickets in return for 'services' rendered, they were obliged in the hope that they would lose! "We couldn't foresee that casteism, communalism and criminalisation will become predominant in politics. To that extent, Congress should take responsibility for how the political system got devalued," Joshi now says.
One of Phulpur's generation of old-timers is M L Jaiswal, 74, who was often part of Nehru's local entourage when he came visiting. "He had a special fondness for his jail mates at Naini, one of whom was Krishna Chand Vaid. Nehruji stayed at his house whenever he came here. So did Indiraji," says Jaiswal, who was Phulpur panchayat chief in the '70s.
Asked whether anybody ever dared to ask Nehru why his constituency was not getting the fruits of development, Jaiswal says, "Vaidji did ask once. So Nehruji sent him to Orissa and Bastar. When he returned, Nehruji asked him what he saw, and Vaidji replied that he saw hunger and deprivation. Nehruji then said, 'Isn't Phulpur better off? People here at least have food to eat, houses to live in and clothes to wear. My concern is for people who have nothing.' Vaidji fell silent. Panditji had the whole nation to think about, not just Phulpur."
After Nehru's sister Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, none of the Nehru-Gandhis has contested from Phulpur. But as Nagesh Kumar Vaid, 48, a descendant of Vaidji, points out, "Perhaps they realized they could not give anything to this place, nor take anything from here." The great nothingness that the great patrician signifies in today's Phulpur is best symbolised by the ruins of Vaidji's house that Nehru made his home here. "We've seen it all, from the sublime to the ridiculous," Nagesh adds. "We took pride in Nehru and find Ateeq an embarrassment."
Ashok Vajpayee, son of late Congress leader Rajendra Kumari Vajpayee, says the decline of Congress began when the party broke its unwritten pact with the people. Vajpayee, who says he was expelled from Congress a year ago for reasons unknown to him, has since joined BSP which is fielding him for the Lok Sabha from Allahabad.
"Until Mrs Indira Gandhi, the top leadership of Congress was accessible. Indiraji met 2,000 people a day and knew the churnings at the grassroots. Today, the party's political dogma has collapsed; it's playing second fiddle to SP whose political base is goondas," says Vajpayee. "The family left its kul deohri (family base) that is Allahabad and Congress is dead because it allowed votebank politics to overshadow issue-based politics."
The flip side of such vote politics was a 'bank run' on Congress - first by the OBCs with Mandal, then the upper castes with Mandir, and the Dalit votes with Mayawati. These numerically powerful sections turned away from the party, cutting its vote percentage in the region down from 40% to around 8%. Kailash Ram, 45, from the numerically strong Patel community, was a typical Congress supporter whose vote always unquestioningly went to the party. Today his entire clan supports BSP.
Kailash shuttles between Phulpur and Allahabad where he works as a waiter. "It's because there are no factories or big businesses here that our children had to look for work in Mumbai. They were humiliated there. At roadside dhabas, they were always the last to be served. My two boys were beaten up and thrown out of Maharashtra. What did we get from voting for Congress?" he asks.
Meanwhile, bhai (as Ateeq is known among his supporters) still has his votaries who point out he has done a lot for poor Muslims in the last 15 years.
In the thoughtfully appointed lounge of SP MP Saleem Shervani's old mansion near upscale Alkapuri in Allahabad, a large portrait of Nehru adorns one side of the wall while on the other hangs one of Mulayam Singh. Perhaps nothing else underscores the 'sangam' of the lofty with the profane. Families like Shervanis, of old money and loyalty to the Congress, left the party in the '90s but still continued to win elections.
Says Shervani, "I wouldn't have won on a Congress ticket in 1996. I spoke to Mrs Sonia Gandhi, Rajesh Pilot, Arjun Singh and others. They said, and I am not trying to sound vain, that it's important that people like you get elected to Lok Sabha, never mind the party. I believe the situation today calls for a Congress-SP tie-up."
"Between too early and too late, there's never more than a moment," goes a quotation on Shervani's Gautier-esque desk. The quote, from Franz Worel, is strangely apt for Congress as it negotiates with its blemished present, sadly not on its own terms but on the terms of its political adversaries and enemies.
Read more: Nehru's Phulpur fails to keep its tryst - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-toi/special-report/Nehrus-Phulpur-fails-to-keep-its-tryst/articleshow/3346754.cms#ixzz11GOJCA9J
With continuous efforts and its endeavours towards waste management IFFCO Phulpur has achieved Zero liquid effluent discharge from premises - a rare performance achievable by any similar industry. An effluent treatment cum recycle plant based on Reverse Osmosis Technology has been installed to treat industrial effluent. The product water is reused in process as cooling water make up. The domestic sewage water is treated in a well - designed sewage treatment cum recycle plant. The treated sewage water is fully reused in plant process and sewage sludge thus produced is utilized as manure in the farm lands of our Farmers Training Institute.
For monitoring the quality of ambient air, water and stack IFFCO has a monitoring laboratory equipped with most sophisticated and modern instruments. The monitoring staff is experienced and well qualified. This laboratory is recognized by the State Pollution Control Board because of its good monitoring capability. Our R & D unit is also recognized by Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India.
Due to our excellent track record and well - established Environment Management System at IFFCO Phulpur, we have been granted consent from State Pollution Control Board continuously since Plant commissioning till date.
IFFCO Phulpur has an elaborate system for solid waste handling and utilization. Our strategy has been to reduce the pollutants at source by adopting appropriate technology and to convert waste into useful material.
Substantial Green Belt has been developed around the factory and Township to keep the environment quality in its most natural condition.
In recognition of its outstanding performance in Environment Management, Phulpur Unit has won the "BEST ENVIRONMENTAL AWAR" three times from Fertiliser Association of India, i.e., for the Year 1993-94, 1996-97 and 1997-98.
2nd Jawahar Lal Nehru Memorial National Award for best organization in implementing "POLLUTION CONTROL MEASURES" from International Green Land Society, Hyderabad.
IFFCO Phulpur has bagged "ENVIRONMENT AWARDS" for its excellent work in the field of Environment Management, by Rotary Club of Allahabad Midtown, for the year 1993-94.
The Regional Director, Ganga Project Directorate, Ministry of Environment & Forests, New Delhi has issued appreciation letters for the good Environment control at IFFCO Phulpur.
"First Position in Fertiliser Sector of Indo German Greentech Environment Excellence Award" New Delhi in Year 2002.
"TERI Corporate Environmental Award" from Tata Energy Research Institute, New Delhi in Year 2000-01 (in the category of companies having turnover more than Rs.500 crores per annum).
All the liquid effluents generated from the various plants are subjected to extensive treatment to ensure that the treated water quality conforms to the specification laid down by the UPPCB and MINAS. For liquid effluent control, deep hydrolyser, distillation column, stripper and ETP based on steam stripping, disc. oil separator, treatment cum recycle plant on Reverse Osmosis technology, pH neutralization facility , guard pond, etc. have been installed and are operating efficiently. Adoption of Non-Chromate cooling water system in process plants has been done away with and menace of hazardous heavy metals like chromium has been eliminated.
ZERO EFFLUENT TECHNOLOGY:
IFFCO Phulpur has presently in operation, a single stream 1670 MT/Day Urea Plant commissioned in 1980 and a twin stream 2x1310 MT/Day Urea Plant commissioned in 1997, based on Snamprogetti’s patented Ammonia Stripping Process. Both the units have in-built waste water treatment section, where the urea bearing waste containing 1.25% Urea and 0.5% Ammonia is treated in deep urea hydrolyser with 35 ata steam. Product of hydrolysis, i.e., Ammonia and Carbon Dioxide are recycled back to process for increased production of Urea. The water is purified for reuse as boiler feed water after passing through Ion Exchange polisher unit. There is no effluent discharge from Urea plant.
977 MTPD and 1520 MTPD Ammonia Plants have been engineered and constructed by MW Kellogg (USA) and Haldor-Topsoe (Denmark), respectively and are based on naphtha as the feed stock. To achieve zero effluent discharge from the plant, it has process condensate stripper, condensate polishing unit to recycle process and turbine condensate for steam generation. About 180 M3 / Day jacket cooling water of Ammonia Plant - I is recycled into Ammonia cooling tower as cooling water make-up. Scheme has been implemented to reuse about 270 M3/day RV sealing water of Ammonia plant-I into cooling tower.
WATER CONSERVATION MEASURE:
IFFCO Phulpur is very conscious and careful towards resource conservation. Several water conservation schemes have been adopted right since inception of the plant for careful utilisation of the precious commodity, i.e., water. The entire effluent generated in the factory is recycled / reused after adequate treatment in plant process and irrigation of farm lands. The various water conservation measures adopted at IFFCO Phulpur are as follows:
1. Treatment and reuse of process condensate and turbine condensate from Ammonia Plant:
In Ammonia Plant, process condensate, i.e., about 2980 M3/day, is treated in the stripper for removal of its ammonical content. Further it is allowed to pass through a polisher unit to remove all dissolved salts contained in the process condensate. The polished condensate is pumped to plant and reused as boiler feed water.
Turbine condensate from Ammonia Plant is also sent to condensate polisher unit of D.M. Plant for polishing in Ion Exchange units. The treated water is recycled and reused as boiler feed water for steam generation in Ammonia plant itself and steam generation plant.
2. Reuse of Steam Condensate from Urea Plant:
About 950 M3/day of steam condensate from surface condensate of turbo driven CO2 compressor
system and approximately 2100 M3/day of steam condensate from process of Urea Plant-I & Urea -
II are recycled to steam generation plant as a make up to boiler feed water.
3. Treatment and Reuse of waste water of Urea Plant (Deep Urea Hydrolyser):
In order to recover the valuable Urea and Ammonia from effluents and make the effluents ( 2200 M3/ Day ) reusable, the deep urea hydrolyser (operating at 35 Ata and 230 deg. C) has been installed and operated.
Nagar Panchayat
A nagar palika or nagar panchayat is a form of an urban political unit in India comparable to a municipality.An urban centre with more than 30,000 and less than 100,000 inhabitants is classified as a nagar panchayat....
in Allahabad district
Allahabad District
Allahabad district is one of the districts of Uttar Pradesh state of India, and Allahabad town is the district headquarters. Allahabad district is a part of Allahabad Division.As of 2011 it is the most populous district of Uttar Pradesh ....
in the India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n state
States and territories of India
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of Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh abbreviation U.P. , is a state located in the northern part of India. With a population of over 200 million people, it is India's most populous state, as well as the world's most populous sub-national entity...
. It is known for being the Lok Sabha
Lok Sabha
The Lok Sabha or House of the People is the lower house of the Parliament of India. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by direct election under universal adult suffrage. As of 2009, there have been fifteen Lok Sabhas elected by the people of India...
seat from which Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru , often referred to with the epithet of Panditji, was an Indian statesman who became the first Prime Minister of independent India and became noted for his “neutralist” policies in foreign affairs. He was also one of the principal leaders of India’s independence movement in the...
got elected to the Indian Parliament.
Geography
Phulpur is located at 25.55°N 82.10°E. It has an average elevation of 87 metres (285.4 ft). The IST (Indian standard time) is calculated from Phulpur.Demographics
India censusCensus
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...
, Phulpur had a population of 21,066. Males constitute 54% of the population and females 46%. Phulpur has an average literacy rate of 60%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 70%, and female literacy is 49%. In Phulpur, 17% of the population is under 6 years of age.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit College Phulpur Allahabad
Syed Ali Hasan Naqvi, Advocate an eminent Lawyer,Social Reformer,Ruler LandLord(zamindar)established this College as its Secretary and Manager and named it in the name of Mrs.Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit the illustrious sister of the first Prime Minister of India Late Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru.This is the only institution in her name. She stayed in this College when she came to contest the parliamentary election after the death of Pandit Nehru.
Syed Jafar Raza Naqvi, Advocate a prominent Lawyer and a renowned personality is the Secretary and Manager of this prestigious Government recognized Minority institution since the year 1976 till date and is nurturing it with his sweat and blood.The College has NCC training facility and a fine Volleyball team. The institution is standing tall since Five Decades and providing quality education to poor and downtrodden at virtually negligible cost and producing excellent results in the Examinations Conducted by Board of Secondary Education.
IFFCO Phulpur
Situated near Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh , IFFCO Phulpur complex has two production units – Phulpur unit-I and Phulpur unit-II and is the world’s largest fertilser complex based on naphtha as feed stock.The township Ghiyanagar (212404) is ISO14002 certified and is a very state of the art township with all the necessary facilities like hospital, schools, clubs, theatres and even petrol pump.
Nehru's Phulpur fails to keep its tryst
About 35 km from the impressively housed memorabilia of the Nehru family at Allahabad's Anand Bhawan is Phulpur, the Lok Sabha constituency of independent India's first prime minister, who was elected thrice from here. But today, Phulpur appears to be in a time warp, a place trapped eternally in the Sixties.The mobile phone network is about the only thing that functions in Phulpur; the SDM's office doesn't even have a landline. It was disconnected after unpaid bills ran into tens of thousands of rupees. The SDM keeps in touch with his district on cellphone, but keeping it charged is a challenge. Electricity, assured for 18 to 20 hours in Allahabad, is never available for more than five hours a day here. But its people can't even complain: their voice in the Lok Sabha, don-turned-politician Ateeq Ahmed, is cooling his heels in Naini jail nearby.
It's a jail that resonates with history. Nehru and numerous other freedom fighters spent time here. They fought for freedom and the British threw them in Naini when their satyagraha and non-cooperation became too hot to handle. But Ateeq is here for violating, brazenly and crudely, the very laws that this jail's illustrious time-servers framed after India gained freedom.
Beyond its lifeless streets, algae-infested drains and garbage piles however, Phulpur is buzzing with talk these days. The big question is who will contest from here and who will win. Will it be Kapil Muni Kawariya, just nominated by the BSP? Or will it be the don himself or, if he doesn't walk free, his wife Shaista Parveen? Who will be the Samajwadi Party's candidate? Will Phulpur go unchallenged by Congress following its astonishing alliance with SP?
The answers will be known in time. But there's a larger question no one seems to have quite got the hang of: How did Nehru's Phulpur become the playing field of a don who defies everything that the maker of modern India stood for?
In many ways, Phulpur represents the fragmentation of Indian politics in the backyard of the Nehru-Gandhi family. Ateeq may not belong to the Congress, but he is a product of the nexus between crime and politics, a practice first developed by the Congress and later perfected by others.
Asked about this degeneration in public life, UPCC president Rita Bahugna Joshi feigns naive wonderment. "We never believed criminals would get voted to power," she says. Congress bosses say that when criminals began asking for election tickets in return for 'services' rendered, they were obliged in the hope that they would lose! "We couldn't foresee that casteism, communalism and criminalisation will become predominant in politics. To that extent, Congress should take responsibility for how the political system got devalued," Joshi now says.
One of Phulpur's generation of old-timers is M L Jaiswal, 74, who was often part of Nehru's local entourage when he came visiting. "He had a special fondness for his jail mates at Naini, one of whom was Krishna Chand Vaid. Nehruji stayed at his house whenever he came here. So did Indiraji," says Jaiswal, who was Phulpur panchayat chief in the '70s.
Asked whether anybody ever dared to ask Nehru why his constituency was not getting the fruits of development, Jaiswal says, "Vaidji did ask once. So Nehruji sent him to Orissa and Bastar. When he returned, Nehruji asked him what he saw, and Vaidji replied that he saw hunger and deprivation. Nehruji then said, 'Isn't Phulpur better off? People here at least have food to eat, houses to live in and clothes to wear. My concern is for people who have nothing.' Vaidji fell silent. Panditji had the whole nation to think about, not just Phulpur."
After Nehru's sister Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, none of the Nehru-Gandhis has contested from Phulpur. But as Nagesh Kumar Vaid, 48, a descendant of Vaidji, points out, "Perhaps they realized they could not give anything to this place, nor take anything from here." The great nothingness that the great patrician signifies in today's Phulpur is best symbolised by the ruins of Vaidji's house that Nehru made his home here. "We've seen it all, from the sublime to the ridiculous," Nagesh adds. "We took pride in Nehru and find Ateeq an embarrassment."
Ashok Vajpayee, son of late Congress leader Rajendra Kumari Vajpayee, says the decline of Congress began when the party broke its unwritten pact with the people. Vajpayee, who says he was expelled from Congress a year ago for reasons unknown to him, has since joined BSP which is fielding him for the Lok Sabha from Allahabad.
"Until Mrs Indira Gandhi, the top leadership of Congress was accessible. Indiraji met 2,000 people a day and knew the churnings at the grassroots. Today, the party's political dogma has collapsed; it's playing second fiddle to SP whose political base is goondas," says Vajpayee. "The family left its kul deohri (family base) that is Allahabad and Congress is dead because it allowed votebank politics to overshadow issue-based politics."
The flip side of such vote politics was a 'bank run' on Congress - first by the OBCs with Mandal, then the upper castes with Mandir, and the Dalit votes with Mayawati. These numerically powerful sections turned away from the party, cutting its vote percentage in the region down from 40% to around 8%. Kailash Ram, 45, from the numerically strong Patel community, was a typical Congress supporter whose vote always unquestioningly went to the party. Today his entire clan supports BSP.
Kailash shuttles between Phulpur and Allahabad where he works as a waiter. "It's because there are no factories or big businesses here that our children had to look for work in Mumbai. They were humiliated there. At roadside dhabas, they were always the last to be served. My two boys were beaten up and thrown out of Maharashtra. What did we get from voting for Congress?" he asks.
Meanwhile, bhai (as Ateeq is known among his supporters) still has his votaries who point out he has done a lot for poor Muslims in the last 15 years.
In the thoughtfully appointed lounge of SP MP Saleem Shervani's old mansion near upscale Alkapuri in Allahabad, a large portrait of Nehru adorns one side of the wall while on the other hangs one of Mulayam Singh. Perhaps nothing else underscores the 'sangam' of the lofty with the profane. Families like Shervanis, of old money and loyalty to the Congress, left the party in the '90s but still continued to win elections.
Says Shervani, "I wouldn't have won on a Congress ticket in 1996. I spoke to Mrs Sonia Gandhi, Rajesh Pilot, Arjun Singh and others. They said, and I am not trying to sound vain, that it's important that people like you get elected to Lok Sabha, never mind the party. I believe the situation today calls for a Congress-SP tie-up."
"Between too early and too late, there's never more than a moment," goes a quotation on Shervani's Gautier-esque desk. The quote, from Franz Worel, is strangely apt for Congress as it negotiates with its blemished present, sadly not on its own terms but on the terms of its political adversaries and enemies.
Read more: Nehru's Phulpur fails to keep its tryst - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-toi/special-report/Nehrus-Phulpur-fails-to-keep-its-tryst/articleshow/3346754.cms#ixzz11GOJCA9J
IFFCO PHULPUR UNIT " AN INDUSTRY IN HARMONY WITH THE NATURE"
Waste Management, Natural Resource Conservation, Environment Protection and its enrichment has always been of paramount importance to IFFCO Phulpur Unit. We have adopted eco-friendly technology wherever possible. Due care is taken at the design stage itself, to select the best available technologies that produce low or negligible waste, conserve resources, and reuse treated effluents to the maximum possible extent. ‘Prevention is better than cure’ has been the basis of the Society’s pollution control programme. Environment monitoring and control at IFFCO Phulpur is efficiently met by providing all necessary instrumentation and pollution control measures for effluents, emissions, domestic sewage, and solid wastes.With continuous efforts and its endeavours towards waste management IFFCO Phulpur has achieved Zero liquid effluent discharge from premises - a rare performance achievable by any similar industry. An effluent treatment cum recycle plant based on Reverse Osmosis Technology has been installed to treat industrial effluent. The product water is reused in process as cooling water make up. The domestic sewage water is treated in a well - designed sewage treatment cum recycle plant. The treated sewage water is fully reused in plant process and sewage sludge thus produced is utilized as manure in the farm lands of our Farmers Training Institute.
For monitoring the quality of ambient air, water and stack IFFCO has a monitoring laboratory equipped with most sophisticated and modern instruments. The monitoring staff is experienced and well qualified. This laboratory is recognized by the State Pollution Control Board because of its good monitoring capability. Our R & D unit is also recognized by Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India.
Due to our excellent track record and well - established Environment Management System at IFFCO Phulpur, we have been granted consent from State Pollution Control Board continuously since Plant commissioning till date.
IFFCO Phulpur has an elaborate system for solid waste handling and utilization. Our strategy has been to reduce the pollutants at source by adopting appropriate technology and to convert waste into useful material.
Substantial Green Belt has been developed around the factory and Township to keep the environment quality in its most natural condition.
AWARDS / APPRECIATIONS ON ENVIRONMET & POLLUTION CONTROL:
IFFCO Phulpur Unit has won prestigious Environmental Awards from time to time, which are ample testimony of its excellent Environment Management System. Some of these awards are listed here under :In recognition of its outstanding performance in Environment Management, Phulpur Unit has won the "BEST ENVIRONMENTAL AWAR" three times from Fertiliser Association of India, i.e., for the Year 1993-94, 1996-97 and 1997-98.
2nd Jawahar Lal Nehru Memorial National Award for best organization in implementing "POLLUTION CONTROL MEASURES" from International Green Land Society, Hyderabad.
IFFCO Phulpur has bagged "ENVIRONMENT AWARDS" for its excellent work in the field of Environment Management, by Rotary Club of Allahabad Midtown, for the year 1993-94.
The Regional Director, Ganga Project Directorate, Ministry of Environment & Forests, New Delhi has issued appreciation letters for the good Environment control at IFFCO Phulpur.
"First Position in Fertiliser Sector of Indo German Greentech Environment Excellence Award" New Delhi in Year 2002.
"TERI Corporate Environmental Award" from Tata Energy Research Institute, New Delhi in Year 2000-01 (in the category of companies having turnover more than Rs.500 crores per annum).
ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AT IFFCO PHULPUR.
LIQUID EFFLUENT MANAGEMENT:All the liquid effluents generated from the various plants are subjected to extensive treatment to ensure that the treated water quality conforms to the specification laid down by the UPPCB and MINAS. For liquid effluent control, deep hydrolyser, distillation column, stripper and ETP based on steam stripping, disc. oil separator, treatment cum recycle plant on Reverse Osmosis technology, pH neutralization facility , guard pond, etc. have been installed and are operating efficiently. Adoption of Non-Chromate cooling water system in process plants has been done away with and menace of hazardous heavy metals like chromium has been eliminated.
ZERO EFFLUENT TECHNOLOGY:
IFFCO Phulpur has presently in operation, a single stream 1670 MT/Day Urea Plant commissioned in 1980 and a twin stream 2x1310 MT/Day Urea Plant commissioned in 1997, based on Snamprogetti’s patented Ammonia Stripping Process. Both the units have in-built waste water treatment section, where the urea bearing waste containing 1.25% Urea and 0.5% Ammonia is treated in deep urea hydrolyser with 35 ata steam. Product of hydrolysis, i.e., Ammonia and Carbon Dioxide are recycled back to process for increased production of Urea. The water is purified for reuse as boiler feed water after passing through Ion Exchange polisher unit. There is no effluent discharge from Urea plant.
977 MTPD and 1520 MTPD Ammonia Plants have been engineered and constructed by MW Kellogg (USA) and Haldor-Topsoe (Denmark), respectively and are based on naphtha as the feed stock. To achieve zero effluent discharge from the plant, it has process condensate stripper, condensate polishing unit to recycle process and turbine condensate for steam generation. About 180 M3 / Day jacket cooling water of Ammonia Plant - I is recycled into Ammonia cooling tower as cooling water make-up. Scheme has been implemented to reuse about 270 M3/day RV sealing water of Ammonia plant-I into cooling tower.
WATER CONSERVATION MEASURE:
IFFCO Phulpur is very conscious and careful towards resource conservation. Several water conservation schemes have been adopted right since inception of the plant for careful utilisation of the precious commodity, i.e., water. The entire effluent generated in the factory is recycled / reused after adequate treatment in plant process and irrigation of farm lands. The various water conservation measures adopted at IFFCO Phulpur are as follows:
1. Treatment and reuse of process condensate and turbine condensate from Ammonia Plant:
In Ammonia Plant, process condensate, i.e., about 2980 M3/day, is treated in the stripper for removal of its ammonical content. Further it is allowed to pass through a polisher unit to remove all dissolved salts contained in the process condensate. The polished condensate is pumped to plant and reused as boiler feed water.
Turbine condensate from Ammonia Plant is also sent to condensate polisher unit of D.M. Plant for polishing in Ion Exchange units. The treated water is recycled and reused as boiler feed water for steam generation in Ammonia plant itself and steam generation plant.
2. Reuse of Steam Condensate from Urea Plant:
About 950 M3/day of steam condensate from surface condensate of turbo driven CO2 compressor
system and approximately 2100 M3/day of steam condensate from process of Urea Plant-I & Urea -
II are recycled to steam generation plant as a make up to boiler feed water.
3. Treatment and Reuse of waste water of Urea Plant (Deep Urea Hydrolyser):
In order to recover the valuable Urea and Ammonia from effluents and make the effluents ( 2200 M3/ Day ) reusable, the deep urea hydrolyser (operating at 35 Ata and 230 deg. C) has been installed and operated.