This document summarizes the social responsibility efforts of Vedanta Group, an Indian natural resources company, between 2005-2010. It outlines initiatives focused on education, healthcare, livelihoods, and community development that benefited over 2.7 million people across India and Zambia. Key programs included literacy programs reaching 140,000 children and adults, health services for 5.7 million people through hospitals and health posts, and self-help groups and watershed projects supporting farmers and women. The company invested over $100 million USD over 5 years through staff, community coordinators, and NGO partners, resulting in numerous awards for its corporate social responsibility programs.

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2. Founded:1976, Bombay, India
Founder : Anil Agarwal
Headquarter : London, United Kingdom
Employees:30,000 (2010)
Products:Copper, Aluminium, Zinc, Lead, G
old, Iron ore,Metallurgical coke and Petrolium
Revenue :US$7.873 billion (2010)
Operating income : $1.653 billion (2010)
Profit: $598 million (2010)
Total assets: $23.887 billion (2010)
Total equity: $11.357 billion (2010)

4. SUSTAINABLEDEVELOPMENT
ENVIRONMENT
HEALTH AND SAFETY
PEOPLE
OUR COMMUNITIES
CSR

5. Outreach and impact: 2005 - 2010
 Strategic focus on 552 villages and 2.7 million people in eight States in
India and four townships in Zambia
 Literacy and education initiatives for more than 140,000 children and
adult illiterates
 A computer literacy programme in 300 schools and 315 literacy centres
covering more than 140,000 students
 28 company-run schools and a post-graduate colleges for girls reaching
out to 16,000 students
 Health care services provided to 5.7 million people
 18 company-run hospitals and health posts
 250,000 children in 2,952 schools covered under the midday meal
programme through eight centralised kitchens in
Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Orissa
 2,546 Vedanta Bal Chetna Anganwadi Centres covering 132,000
children

6. CONT…..
 Work in progress for a) the 350-bed Vedanta Cancer Hospital & Research
Centre at Raipur in Chhattisgarh and b) the Vedanta Hindustan Zinc Heart
Hospital at Udaipur in Rajasthan
 13,840 acres of land brought under cultivation and watershed covering 17,425
farmers
 Veterinary services benefiting 456,581 cattle
 27,100 women enrolled in 2,050 self-help groups with cumulative savings of Rs.
63.4 million
 100 villages covered under the Integrated Village Development Programme
 A CSR Advisory Board in Orissa comprising eminent personalities to guide and
periodically assess CSR performance
 CSR investment over five years of Indian National Rupees (INR) 463.6 crore
(US$100.7 million).
 Our teams of 77 full-time development personnel, 342 community co-
ordinators (who are natural leaders from the same communities) and 111 NGO
and government partners have made our endeavors tremendously
successful, resulting in rich dividends.

7. AWARDS
 Construction Industry Development Council(CIDC), Viswakarma Award for Social Responsibility, 2010,BALCO
 Wockhardt Foundation, India Shining Initiative, "Best CSR in Mining Sector" award, 2010, Sterlite Industries (I) Ltd
 Bombay Stock Exchange, Runners up for Best Corporate Social Responsibility Practices,2010, Sesa Goa
 CII - National Award for Excellence in Water Management, 2009, HZL
 Ms Dhanalaxmi and Ms Maria Ponnammal of the Sterlite Women Empowerment Project, 2009, received the “National
Virtual Academy Fellowship” award from the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation
 The CSR Green Triangle Award, 2009, Sesa Goa
 The Asian CSR Award, 2008, in the Poverty Alleviation category, HZL
 ‘Business Leader: Fighting Malaria’ by the Ministry of Health and Zambia Association of Chambers of Commerce and
Industry, 2008, KCM
 Golden Peacock CSR Award, 2008, HZL and BALCO
 Golden Peacock Global Award for CSR Reporting, 2008, Vedanta Resources plc
 FICCI Award for Rural & Community Development, 2008, HZL
 CII-ITC Sustainability Award, Commendation for Strong Commitment, 2008, to SIIL and Sesa Goa
 Think Odisha Leadership Award, 2008, made jointly by Tefl and Times of India Group for best CSR Practicing
Company, VAL Jharsuguda
 Pegasus Gold CSR Award, 2008, HZL
 First Prize for Corporate Social Responsibility, for Sesa Goa Ltd by the Inspectorate of Factories and
Boilers, Government of Goa, Government of India and Green Triangle Society, Goa
 St John’s Ambulance Award, 2008, VAL, Lanjigarh
 National Sustainability Award by Indian Institute of Metals in Pig Iron & DR Plant Category, 2008, Sesa Industries Ltd
 State Level Bhamashah Award for five units of HZL
 Nirmal Gram Puraskar, 2008, to Sukhawara Panchayat, of CLZS, HZL and BALCO for Sanitation Project by the
President of India

8. THANK YOU!