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The State Trading Corporation of India Ltd. (STC) is a premier international trading house owned by the Government of India. Having been set up in 1956, the Corporation has developed vast expertise in handling bulk international trade. Though, dealing largely with the East European countries during the early years of its formation, today it trades with almost all the countries of the world.

Visakhapatnam, rightly called City of Destiny is the major industrial center in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Several industrial units in the public and private sectors are located in Visakhapatnam. These include fertilizers, oil refinery, steel making, to name few.

The concept of waste as "a material which has no use" is changing to "a resource at a wrong place". This realisation is making society to think how to minimise waste/ put to other uses. Waste Minimisation hence can be considered as "A new and creative way of thinking about products and the processes which makes them. It is achieved by the continuous application of strategies to minimum the generation of wastes and emissions".To put this definition to practical use organisations have developed various methodologies to suit their requirements. But the underlying principle on which all the WM methodologies are based on the famous DEMING cycle of Plan-Do-Check-Act.

The Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas is entrusted with the responsibility of exploration and production of oil and natural gas, their refining, distribution and marketing,import, export, and conservation of petroleum products and Liquefied Natural Gas.

NPC is a national level organization to promote productivity culture in India. Established as a registered society in 1958 by the Government of India, it is an autonomous, tri-partite, non-profit organization with equal representation from the government, employers and workers’ organizations, apart from technical and professional institutions and other interests on its governing council. Besides providing training, consultancy and undertaking research in the area of productivity, NPC also implements the productivity promotion plans and programmes of the Tokyo based Asian Productivity Organization (APO), an inter-governmental body of which the Government of India is a founder member.