The Company has carried out following activities for ensuring environmental sustainability

Afforestation/ large-scale tree plantation: Project Hero Green Drive: To bring about a significant increase in green cover with the plantation of more than 1.4 million trees with a focus on survival of saplings (90% survival rate) and trees. This has led to the addition of ~5.9 million square feet of green cover in several cities in the country. Eco-friendly and alternative energy – 

Project Aarush: Aimed at encouraging alternative and eco-friendly energy resources, the project has two main components:

Replace traditional lamps with Light Emitting Diode (LEDs) and skill the community to make and repair the same: Replaced conventional lamps with 7W LEDs with thousands of households in over 300 villages of Kedar Ghati – home to survivors of some of the worst floods that the country has witnessed. Transformed 27 additional villages in Uttarakhand to fully LED lit. Overall, the 26,000 households using 110,000 LED lights will save over 30 million units of electricity per year.

Solar street lights to save electricity and make villages safer: Significantly expanded the reach of solar street lights to now cover 250 villages. The initiative has reached some of the remotest villages and benefits over 800,000 people.

Single Use Plastic: In its commitment to the environment, Hero MotoCorp has banned ‘Single Use Plastic’ across all locations and has successfully eliminated its use from Jan 2019 onwards.

Water conservation: This initiative included cleaning and rejuvenating of ponds, supported the check dam infrastructure and built rain water harvesting facilities in schools and channelized over 7.5 million litres of water in villages around our operations in Rajasthan.

Forest conservation: Continued support, security and conservation of forests with 40 more motorcycles to the rangers, taking the fleet to 230 motorcycles.