Vedanta HZL CSR Udaipur

Community Development at Hindustan Zinc includes health and wellbeing of not just local communities, but also extends to their sources of livelihood – their farms and livestock. On World Animal Welfare Day, SAMADHAN farmers invited livestock expert Dr. D. P. Gupta from Government Animal Husbandry department at Udaipur.

The cattle health specialist gave a holistic training on livestock development, vaccination, importance of deworming, benefits of artificial insemination (AI) and breed improvement, enhancement of milk production, seasonal diseases and home remedies for cattle, along with welfare methods for care of stray animals. More than 60 beneficiaries of SAMADHAN project from 10 villages actively participated in the event. SAMADHAN project reaches more than 2200 farmers and benefits over 1300 cattle rearers at Zawar.
Dr. D. P. Gupta shared knowledge and information on various aspects linked with seasonal diseases in cattle. He emphasized that consumption of excessive grass is harmful to animals. During monsoon, animals choose soft and freshly sprouted grass and consume it in large quantities. Since fresh grass has a lot of water and fibre, it is unhealthy for the animals and causes diarrhoea. A simple preventive solution would be to cut grass and dry it in sunny weather and store it as fodder. Another issue specially related to monsoon is that of excessive moisture which is linked with bacterial diseases as well as worms. A preventive as well as curative remedy is to ensure de-worming – both, at the beginning of the rainy season as well as at regular intervals during monsoon season. Udder Diseases, commonly known as udder mastitis occur during monsoon. They cause the cattle’s udder to swell and then reduce or stop milk production. These can be treated using general antibiotics. Cattle rearers should regularly disinfect their farms and animal shelters through-out the rainy season as a preventive measure. Cattle Pests like ticks cause a disease called east coast fever, which is serious can also lead to the death of cattle. Farmers must spray their animals regularly to treat infection caused by ticks and cut the bushes near the cattle shades to prevent ticks. Additionally, Indigestion in cattle is a common cause of reduced milk production and overall poor health of the animal. Feeding Mustard oil is a simple home remedy that could help resolve the issue. He also shared basic healthcare information for taking care of stray animals.
Dr. D. P. Gupta appreciated the work being done by Hindustan Zinc through SAMADHAN project and said, “I really found the farmers of Zawar progressive and enthusiastic and looking at the potential of livestock development, setting up a dairy unit can be very successful in this area.”
Mr. Nathulal Patel, a cattle rearer at Zawar and SAMADHAN beneficiary said, “ Under Samadhan project, I was informed about the benefits of Artificial Insemination among goats. Currently I have 2 hybrid baby goats thanks to goat AI under SAMADHAN. I started providing BNH – 10 Napier grass to all my cattle after attending a training by explained by Samadhan. This has noticeably increased the milk production capacities among them which has led to improved income. As one of the cattle rearers benefiting under Samadhan project, I receive time to time information and training on preventive and curative care of animals which has been really helpful to me and many of us.”
Through SAMADHAN project, best scientific practices have been combined with technology along with inputs from domain experts to enhance the productivity of existing farm-based resources owned by more than 11000 livestock rearers across Rajasthan. The cattle rearers are trained on various aspects of cattle health in terms of preventive and curative health, along with ensuring an increase in milk production capacity of cattle and breed improvement of livestock. The company also organizes seasonal cattle health camps and ensures availability of fresh and high nutrition feed for cattle. The company’s aim is to make India better and to achieve that goal they want to empower the backbone of our country with their resources and expertise at every step possible. SAMADHAN project is implemented by Hindustan Zinc in technical partnership with BISLD.

Award received for best practices in all aspects of mining performance, Best in class practices in economics, social, environmental, quality and safety in mining sector
Udaipur: Hindustan Zinc (HZL), one of the world’s largest and India’s only integrated producer of Zinc, Lead, and Silverembraces a valuable culture for encouraging innovation that leads to a Zero harm environment and drives sustainability throughout the company. Hindustan Zinc has received Excellence Award from the Federation of Indian Mineral Industries (FIMI) on 29th September 2021 for its Kayad Mines. This award was presented by the Hon’ble Union Minister of Mines, Coal, and Parliament Affairs, Mr. Prahlad Joshi and received by Mr. K.C Meena, Director SBU-Kayad Mine. The ceremony was conducted at the FIMI House, New Delhi during the annual general meeting of FIMI.

This excellence award was instituted in the year 2004-05. The country’s first mining Engineer and former Chairman of Coal India Ltd Sh. G. L. Tondonhas been conferred the prestigious Padma Bhushan Award, in memory of his late wife Smt.Bala Gulshan Tandon. The award is intended to recognize excellence in all aspects of mining performance, such as economics, social, environmental quality, and safety. The evaluation of the award also covers areas such as commitment, self-evaluation, transparency, and governance. Based on the above parameters, FIMI received 9 entries for this award for 2020-21, of which 3 mines were shortlisted and Kayad Mine of Hindustan Zinc Limited won the Excellence award.

The future world wars will be fought over water if we don’t step up and conserve water today. Hindustan Zinc, a certified 2.41 times water positive company, strongly believes in water sustainability not just in its own operations, but also with its employees and local communities. The organization spread the message of water conservation through a series of 18 street plays across all its locations to sensitize employees, contract workers, employee relatives and local community members.

The street plays on the theme of water conservation revolved around a water-scarce dystopian future in the year 2050 where a king with all of his wealth and riches could still not manage to get water enough to fill a small swimming pool due to scarcity. The citizens fought against each other due to lack of drinking water, resorting to even violence and murder to get just a mouthful of drinking water. The play highlighted the possibility of today’s world where one could put in conscious efforts to save water and prevent such a dreadful future from becoming a reality.
Hindustan Zinc had partnered with Udaipur based local theatre group Natyansh to spread this important message on the theme of water conservation. The organization celebrated September as the month of water conservation and initiated a series of street plays across its locations in Rajasthan at Kayad in Ajmer, Agucha in Bhilwara, Chanderiya in Chittorgarh, Dariba in Rajsamand, and Debari, Zawar and its Head Office in Udaipur.
As a major economic contributor in Rajasthan, Hindustan Zinc is constantly working on recycling, searching alternatives for use of water, and exploring alternative water sources. Giving emphasis on water conservation, the company has worked on sustainability of water resources. HZL has state effluent treatment plants and recycling facilities, sewage treatment plant, rise in water vigilance and water storage facilities with which it is playing an important role in water-management and progress. Further, the company demonstrates its commitment to water stewardship by using water efficiently, maintaining water quality, and engaging with communities to collaboratively manage a shared water resource throughout the life cycle. With this, Hindustan Zinc is certified as a “water positive company”.
To provide safe and pure water, RO plants are set up under model project through which 1000 LPH pure water is made available. Water ATMs are also set at some places, where villagers get pure water at reasonable cost. In some areas where clean water source is not available, water is supplied through water tankers in 16 villages benefitting over 14000 community members. Till now, 13 RO plants and 39 ATMs have been setup. Through this, pure water is supplied to the 5000 families in 52 villages.
The certificate of water positive company in metal and mining sector indicates stability of Zinc and commitment towards water storage. As a major financial contributor in the region, Hindustan Zinc gives emphasis on the water recycling, identifying, and developing alternative water sources and water supply. The company has also included water stewardship as one of its sustainability development goals (SDG) 2025 and has prepared a roadmap to become five times water positive company in the coming years by implementing strategies and concepts to reduce water footprint. Company is also working on increasing availability and improving quality of water in coming years and, reaching to the available water resources to supply pure water to maximum villages in the state by 2025.

350 youth from across 180 villages participate on-ground& Virtually to interact with CEO of Hindustan Zinc Mr. Arun Misra, More than 1700 skilled & trained under the existing program, Over 1400 youth across the nation linked to livelihood through employment & entrepreneurship
Udaipur. Hindustan Zinc, a company that firmly believes in contributing towards the development of the country, came forward to support the Youth of the nation by celebrating ‘International Youth Day’, focusing on the theme ‘Role of Youth in Nation – Building’, in various locations of Rajasthan.

An interactive session was organized between the youth of all the skill development centres and Hindustan Zinc’s CEO, Mr. Arun Misra. He motivated the 350+ youth who participated in the event and had a fun interactive session. The participants asked various questions ranging from guidance on personal life to advise on the professional and career front.
Mr. Arun Misra, CEO, Hindustan Zinc said, “It was very refreshing to interact with the 350 young minds being trained at our Skill and Entrepreneurship Development Institutes. Out of the 1700 youth trained by us through these institutes, 1400 have already joined different organizations across the country in various capacities and roles. It is a matter of immense pride and satisfaction when our trainees get jobs & become independent and still reach out to us to stay connected & seek guidance from us. These youngsters are brimming with confidence, and after getting equipped with the right skill, knowledge and technology, sky is the limit for them.”
On this occasion, Hindustan Zinc introduceddiverse skill development trainingsthrough its newly launched Skill Development Centre at Chanderiya in partnership with Tata Strive. This project is set to bridge the gap between the youth of our country and the right livelihood opportunities. This centre is one of 2 such centres run by Hindustan Zinc in partnership with TATA Strive and 4 such centres in partnership with Ambuja Foundation. This initiative will help on addressing the root cause of the problem within the youth which is ‘the lack of right skills’.

As a part of the event, various other activities were held across all the Skill Development Centres, wherein more than 350 youths across 180 villages participated through on groundand virtual presence. This project will aim to offer short-duration intensive courses in different sectors like Business Development Executive, Hospital Front Desk Coordinator, Front Office Associate, Assistant Electrician, and Auto Sales Consultant. The capacity of allthe Skill Development Centres is 1250 youth per year.
The Chanderiya Skill Development Centre was inaugurated by Mr. Tarachand Meena – District Collector Chittorgarh, Mr. Rajendra Prasad Goyal Superintendent PoliceChittorgarh,Ms. Anupam Nidhi Head CSR – Hindustan Zinc, C Chandru –COO Smelters Hindustan Zinfc, Ms. Anita Rajan CEO – Tata Strive and VP Tata Community Initiative Trust and Tata Strive Team.
MsAnita Rajan, CEO TATA Strive said, “Hindustan Zinc and Tata Strive together will make efforts for better training of rural youth in skill development.Through this association with Hindustan Zinc, youth will be better prepared for employment opportunities in banking, health, tourism, hospitality, automotive and other sectors.”
Hindustan Zinc’s Skill and Entrepreneurship Development Institute (SEDI) were started in Dariba& Agucha in 2019-20 with an aim to offer short-duration intensive courses in different trades like Assistant Electrician, Microfinance executive, Unarmed Security Guard, General Duty Assistant, Retail Sales Executive, etc. The centre helps and prepares the youth for entering into the job market and self-employment opportunities which will later make a concrete & positive difference in their lives.
Four new skill development centres have been initiated by the company at Kayad, Debari, and Chanderiya in Rajasthan, and at Pantnagar in Uttarakhand. As of now, more than 1,700 youths have been trained through these skilling centres and more than 1,400 youths have been employed in different organizations of their respective fields. Some have already started their own business. These skilling centres provide a very enriching experience to the enrolled trainees, in terms of technical knowledge of their respective fields. Additionally, trainees are also schooled in English, Computers, and Lifeskills with company exposure visits, on-the-job training, guest lecture, projects, etc.

Pledges to set the climate targets in line with limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5°C.(Business Ambition for 1.5 C campaign- SBTi), The company recently launched its first Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) Report based on TCFD recommendations and guidance.
Udaipur. Hindustan Zinc Limited, one of the world’s largest and India’s only integrated producers of Zinc, Lead, and, Silver has been a pioneer in sustainable mining. While the world is now dealing with the rage of climatic change,

Hindustan Zinc has Committed to set the long term target to reach Net Zero emission by 2050 in line with Business Ambition for 1.5 C campaign led by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). The Science Based Targets initiative is a collaboration between CDP, the United Nations Global Compact, World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).”
On committing to Business Ambition for 1.5°C Campaign, Mr. Arun Misra, CEO, Hindustan Zincadds, “Sustainability has always been the most prominent vision of Hindustan Zinc. The consequences occurring globally due to climatic change demonstrate that our Earth is very vulnerable to global warming. It’s time that we should do our part to control and limit the global temperature rise. 1.5°C is #OurOnlyFuture and being a responsible corporate, we have set a goal to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. We have committed to the ‘Business Ambition for 1.5°C’ campaign to set a net-zero target in line with a 1.5°C future., which is led by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). I believe that we can yet build a better, safer, and greener future, and this commitment will rightly help us to achieve that.”
Earlier this year, Hindustan Zinc was awarded the Most Sustainable Company in the Mining Industry by World Finance at their Sustainability Awards 2021. As a COP26 Business Leader, the company has always been actively initiating towards tackling the repercussions of climate change. The company is also among the only two mining companies globally and among only four Indian companies to be a part of the coveted CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project) ‘A List’ 2020. Hindustan Zinc has set Sustainability Development Goals 2025 for themselves where company is aiming towards 0.5 mn tCO2e GHG emission savings in their operations from the base year 2017 as part of their climate risk mitigation efforts.
Hindustan Zinc hasalso signed MoUs with Epiroc and Normet to bring Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) in underground mining. This initiative is the first of its kind in India in the mining sector. that will help in reducing carbon emissions, enabling the mine operations to become more environmentally friendly.
Epitomizing towards smart, secure, and sustainable operations, the company has launched its first TCFD (Task Force on Climate-related financial disclosure) report which sets the adoption of TCFD framework for climate change risk and opportunity disclosure.
The ‘Business Ambition for 1.5°C’ campaign is backed by a global coalition of UN leaders, business organizations, and NGOs. The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), which leads the campaign, drives ambitious climate action in the private sector by enabling companies to set science-based emission reduction targets. The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) aims at joining a growing group of leading companies that are demonstrating the highest level of ambition on climate and paving the way to a net-zero future. Hindustan Zinc and the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) together will aid in limiting the global warming rise to 1.5°C.