People
- Over 29,000 full-time employees
- 7,000 professionals including 10% women professionals
- More than 1,300 professionals recruited from campuses during FY 2008 400 Stars of Business – employees on the fast track
- Over 2,000 employees covered under Vedanta’s Long Term Incentive Plan
- 4% employee turnover
Health, Safety and Environment
- LTIFR reduced by 24%, from 2.51 to 1.91 for FY 2008
- Zero incidents on occupational diseases
- 66,000 man-days of training on HSE best practices
- Operating sites ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 certified
- 350 Health and Safety professionals
- Health Project Outreach to more than 1.5 million people
- Significant reduction in specific water consumption – HZL (+12.5%), BALCO (+10%) and Sterlite’s Copper Business (+7%) for FY 2008
- Significant reduction in specific energy consumption – HZL (+13%), BALCO (+4%), KCM (+3%) and MALCO (+2%) for FY 2008
- Residues like Fly Ash, Red Mud and Gypsum supplied to cement, brick and construction industries
- Green Energy – 107 MW Wind Power commissioned to date
- 350,000 plantation across all units in FY 2008
Communities
- 383 villages, impacting more than 2.5 million lives
- 70 villages under the Integrated Village Development Programme
- 72 NGO partners at regional, national and international level
- 25,000 children in 900 pre school centers supported under the Integrated Child Development Scheme, Government of India
- School based Mid Day Meal Nutrition programme for 200,000 children
- 2 million vocational training hours for youth
- Developed 1,650 farmers; 3,200 acres of land brought under cultivation
- 781 SHG’s and 10,000 women members part of thrift savings and micro enterprise