Vedanta Aluminium brings 4 AI Control Towers into logistics, safety and plant maintenance
Vedanta Aluminium is using artificial intelligence (AI) and other digital tools across its operations as part of its efforts to improve day-to-day decision-making, logistics, safety and equipment monitoring. At BALCO in Korba, Vedanta Aluminium has introduced four AI-enabled Control Towers to keep...
Vedanta Aluminium shares rise as the group denies stake-sale speculation
Vedanta Aluminium shares gained 3.32 per cent after Vedanta Resources denied speculation that it planned to sell its stake in the aluminium business, while brokerages maintained bullish views on the stock. Vedanta Aluminium came into focus after its parent, Vedanta Resources, dismissed reports and...
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Vedanta restarts Lanjigarh alumina refinery plant
Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) on Thursday restarted its 1 million tonne per annum alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Odisha, about seven months after the company had shut down the unit due to scarcity of bauxite. "We have started operations of the alumina refinery. We have to limit its capacity...
Nalco dithers over alumina supply to Lanjigarh refinery
Anticipating trouble from its workers union, the management of the state-owned Aluminium producer NALCO is deliberating whether it should supply a 'trial' amount of alumina to Vedanta Resources' refinery in Lanjigarh, Odisha. NALCO had obtained an advance from its private sector rival for the trial...
Niyamgiri poised for voting on bauxite mining for Vedanta plant
A recent show on a local Doordarshan channel about Dongria Kondhs, indigenous people who inhabit the plateaus of the Niyamgiri hill ranges in Odisha, ended with a scene where a young member of a tribe throws away some rupee coins given by a government official, asks for a matchbox instead and...
Vedanta unit extends support to women welfare
The Madras Aluminium Company Ltd (MALCO) a unit of Vedanta Group has arranged Loan Distribution Function for Women Self Help Groups in association with Kadayampatti Vattara Pengal Munnetra Nala Sangam (KVPMNS) on 29 June with help of NABARD Financial Services Limited. The gesture was made under the...
Vedanta sources bauxite to restart alumina refinery
Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) Tuesday said it has received about 35,000 tons of bauxite from Gujarat to re-start its alumina refinery in Odisha'sKalahandi district at lower capacity. "We have started getting bauxite from Gujarat. We will build a buffer stock of at least one and half lakh tones of...
Vedanta awaits government report to re-open Lanjigarh refinery
Vedanta Aluminium is awaiting Odisha government’s report on long-term raw material supply to its Lanjigarh alumina refinery in the state before resuming operations at its unit, that has been lying closed for the past seven months, say company sources. The aluminium firm had closed its 1 million ton...
Vedanta project: Centre, state differ on holding gram sabhas in Niyamgiri
Differences of opinion continues between the Centre and the State Government over holding of ‘gram sabhas’ to decide on bauxite mining in Niyamgiri for the Vedanta project. While the State Government has maintained that it is not working to protect the interest of any private company, the Centre...
Centre pulls up Odisha government for reluctance to hold gram sabhas, despite Supreme Court ruling
The Centre has raised concerns over Odisha government's reluctance to let all the gram sabhas in Raygada and Kalahandi districts decide the fate of Vedanta's alumina refinery and bauxite mining project in Niyamgiri as per the Supreme Court. Odisha government has told the Centre that it will conduct...
Centre terms state government's approach to Niyamgiri mining as "incorrect"
The Centre has told the Odisha government that it cannot take short cuts on the Supreme Court’s order to hold village meetings on Vedanta Aluminium's proposed bauxite mining in the Niyamgiri hills. The state government had told the tribal affairs ministry it would hold gram sabha or village...
Vedanta awaits go-ahead for Balco expansion
London-based Vedanta Resources is awaiting the green signal from the Chhattisgarh government to expand the capacity of Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd (Balco), which it acquired in 2001 amid controversy. Vedanta chairman Anil Agarwal had talks with chief minister Raman Singh and senior officials in...
Amnesty urges holistic particpation for Vedanta mining project talks
International human rights advocacy group, Amnesty International, has urged the Odisha government to hold gram sabhas in all 80 odd Dongria Kondh Adivasi (Indigenous) and other Adivasi villages in Niyamgiri hills which are likely to be affected by bauxite mining for an alumina refinery of Vedanta...
Vedanta mulls imports to revive Lanjigarh refinery
After exhausting its options to source bauxite from the domestic market, Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) is mulling importing the raw material to resume operations at its Lanjigarh refinery. The one-million alumina refinery has remained shut since December 5, 2012, on bauxite crunch and VAL has been...
Expanding aluminium sector propels Himadri Chemicals’s investment plans
Himadri Chemicals & Industries (HCIL), India’s largest producer of coal tar pitch, will invest INR 350 crore to meet higher demand arising out of new capacity additions in the aluminium sector and the graphite industry, its main user industries. The company’s main product line, coal tar pitch (CTP)...
Nod unlikely for stake increase in HZL, Balco
Anil Agarwal's Sterlite Industries might not gain in the dispute with the government over its exercise of a call option in Bharat Aluminium Company (Balco) and Hindustan Zinc (HZL) in the light of the proposed move to allow call and put options in listed companies outside the stock exchanges....
Vedanta Aluminium Limited, Lanjigarh conferred with 'Best Corporate Award'
Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL), Lanjigarh has been conferred with ‘Best Corporate Award’ in Aluminium sector. Minister of Revenue and Disaster Management, Government of Odisha, Shri Surya Narayan Patro presented the award in presence of Shri Abasar Beuria, former Ambassador and Padma Vibhushan...
Vedanta SEZ extension proposal to get breather from ministry approval
The Board of Approvals under Union commerce ministry is likely to clear two proposals from Odisha for extension of approvals of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in its 58th meeting to be held on June 12. This includes SEZs of Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) at Jharsuguda and the Infovalley IT SEZ being...
Indian Tribal Ministry objects to state move against SC order
The Union ministry of tribal affairs (MoTA) has objected to the Odisha government's decision to hold gram sabhas in only 12 villages of Niyamgiri hill slopes to decide the fate of bauxite mining for Vedanta Group’s alumina plant. In a letter to Odisha chief secretary BK Patnaik on Friday, the union...
Indian Tribal Affairs Ministry curtails village councils’ rights on Vedanta’s mining project
Despite the Supreme Court’s order, the village councils, or gram sabhas of the Dongria Kondh tribals may not be able to decide upon their traditional and religious rights against the mining interests of Vedanta. A narrow interpretation of the Supreme Court order by the tribal affairs ministry...
