Air India aims to become India's 1st green airline in one year

 As part of this process, the airline's Chairman and Managing Director, Arvind Jadhav, today outlined the company's corporate environment policy which seeks to reduce carbon emission, noise and other forms of pollution as well as reduce consumption of fuel and other natural resources.

"We are committed to go green. As a part of this process, we plan to introduce a documentation management system and aim to go electronic with an e-filing system to cut down on our use of paper," Air India's Quality Management Systems Head, Harpreet A De Singh, told PTI here.

The policy provides sufficient resources to meet environmental objectives by continuous measuring, monitoring, reporting and improving upon environmental performance.

"We will implement our e-filing system in critical areas by June this year. In about a year's time, we will implement it in the entire company," she said, adding orders have already been placed for procuring hardware and software for the system.

The airline would turn paperless except in the areas where it is is mandatory by law, the Air India official said. The air-carrier has already implemented the Fuel Gap Analysis along with International Air Transport Association (IATA) two years ago. Besides, it has also introduced various measures to reduce fuel consumption and carbon emission.

In the last two years, the company claims to have achieved carbon dioxide emission savings to the tune of about 38 crore kilos through various green measures.