DICV sustainable initiatives; dealer relief efforts

Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV) has announced that it has been successful in achieving sustainable initiatives under the vision of ‘Reduce, Recycle and Reuse’ in the span of just four years. It has achieved a recycling ratio improvement of up to 99 per cent. It has come to use 80 per cent renewable energy at its Oragadam manuacturing facility. It is striving to reduce water consumption by 20 per cent. The CV maker has employed a robust set of innovative and impactful sustainable initiatives to address every aspect of its operational interaction and use of resources. These include a focus on maintaining the ground water level, re-using hazardous waste as an alternative fuel, reducing absolute energy consumption and a focus on the use environmentally friendly materials in the vehicles its makes. In other news, DICV has announced a slew of extra initiatives to help dealer partners and staff to tackle pandemicinduced challenges. These include financial and medical benefits (vaccination, insurance, incentives) for the dealership workforce and assistance measures for dealerships’ business sustainability (like Rupees two-lakh Covid Group insurance, 20 days credit for instock vehicles, fast-tracking of pending claims, complete salary support, and an aid to frontline employees with Rupees-one lakh COVID medical insurance, free vaccinations, and gift coupons for technicians) among others.