Company has contributed some amount of money for Women Empowerment

Vedanta is working on developing the skills of rural women to be able to sustain their livelihood. The project is quite successful in most of their operations and a snapshot of the impact of this project across their operations is listed below:

Project Sakhi (Sterlite Copper): Sakhi project helped create 112 SHGs comprising 1,464 women members. Credit linkages amounting to ` 24.6 million were mobilised through nationalised banks.

Project Shakti (Lanjigarh): Women are engaged in 192 SHGs across 45 villages surrounding our area of operation. Approximately ` 2.5 million has been disbursed as internal loan to various members. In addition, the SHGs have managed to create credit linkages worth ` 6.9 million.