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The company's global experts on billet extrusion also shared a slew of initiatives as part of its Customer Technical Service cell for unparalleled customer experience. Vedanta is India's largest manufacturer and exporter of high-quality aluminium billets, which find end-usage in Building & amp; Construction, Solar/Renewable Energy, Automotive, Electrical and many other key industries through the extrusion process.

Anil Agarwal's philanthropic pursuits have been an inspiration across the globe for his charitable foundation, the Anil Agarwal Foundation, which has created an exemplary social impact in rural India with Vedanta's multiple care initiatives. These initiatives, including Swatch Goan Abhiyaan, Nand Ghar, have touched upon over 4.23 crore lives helping them better their quality of life. To bring in sustainable and inclusive growth integrated with social-economic development, the group spent over Rs 331 crore in the year 2020-21.

Cairn Energy PLC, the Scottish oil and gas exploration company, that is also commonly referred to as Cairn Energy, will discontinue the use of the brand name 'Cairn' as part of its corporate identity by December 2021. In a regulatory statement on November 3, Cairn said it plans to change the company name from Cairn Energy PLC to Capricorn Energy PLC, effective from December 13, 2021.

This latest film celebrates the invaluable contribution of a young professional, Jayshree Dhanasekaran, who worked to safeguard remote communities from Covid in Lanjigarh in Odisha's Kalahandi district. She rallied 80 local women in Lanjigarh village to stitch and distribute 1.4 lakh masks to safeguard the rural communities against the disease.

Perform Achieve and Trade (PAT) scheme is a regulatory instrument deployed by the Ministry of Power, to reduce specific energy consumption in energy intensive industries with an associated market-based mechanism to enhance cost effectiveness through certification of excess energy savings, which can be traded.

Vedanta Ltd spent Rs 331 crore in the last financial year on various CSR activities with focus on pandemic relief works, children's well-being & education, women empowerment, health care, sustainable agriculture and animal welfare, market-linked skilling of youth, environment protection and restoration, development of community infrastructure, among others.

For its largest integrated aluminium production facility at Jharsuguda in Odisha, Vedanta procured 354 million units of solar and non-solar renewable energy, primarily from the Green Term-Ahead Market (GTAM) at IEX. IEX is a premiere energy marketplace and is the largest power exchange in the country. GTAM, introduced last year by IEX, supports buyers in procuring green energy .

The company expressed its interest for long-term collaboration with cement industry players on opportunities of using fly ash (a by-product in thermal power generation) and bauxite residue (a by-product of producing alumina from bauxite) in cement manufacturing, in a national workshop conducted with global industry experts.

Vedanta Aluminum's operations are guided by the Vedanta Sustainable Development Framework, which includes a robust suite of technical & management standards and guidance notes developed in line with global sustainability management practices aligned to the International Financial Corporation (IFC), International Council for Mining and Metals (ICMM), Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), etc

Under the company's Vedanta Saathi programme, MSMEs can avail a discount of Rs 500 per tonne on the first 500 tonnes of purchase in Aluminium, Zinc, Lead, Silver, Steel and Pig Iron, on first come first served basis. The scheme will be live for this week, ending on July 3, 2021. For eligibility, MSMEs must have manufacturing operations in the metals business.