Ex-Bureaucrat, writer & academician at Vedanta Lanjigarh

Three members CSR advisory team of Vedanta Aluminium has visited Vedanta`s Lanjigarh refinery plant at Orissa today and expressed their satisfaction on the company’s initiative for sustainable development. CSR activities of Vedanta Aluminium Ltd, Lanjigarh is mainly concentrated on four areas i.e Health, Education, Livelihood and Infrastructure. The team has reviewed the overall progress of all the areas and shared their views to the local Management.
Mr. SB Mishra, former Chief Secretary of Orissa; Prof. O.N. Mohanty, Vice – Chanceller of Biju Pattnaik University of Technology and Padmashree Prativa Ray, famous novel Writer praised Vedanta’s initiatives for rehabilitation of displaced families and development initiatives in Lanjigarh. These three members, who are part of Vedanta CSR Advisory Board, paid a one-day visit to Lanjigarh today and went to different periphery area villages.
Led by Dr. Mukesh Kumar, Chief Operating Officer of Vedanta Aluminium, Lanjigarh they visited the Vedanta Niyamgiri Nagar and had a meeting with the displaced families who are rehabilitated in this colony. They interacted with the women at the Tailoring centre and phenyl making unit in the Vedanta Niyamgiri Nagar. Appreciating the initiative to provide enhanced livelihood to the tribal women, Mr. SB Mishra said, “the innovative livelihood development project by Vedanta will definitely help in financial and social empowerment of women.” The visitors were very happy to see the health centre, child care centre and primary school in the rehabilitation colony, established by Vedanta.
They also visited the Strawberry field, which has been developed under Vedanta’s Shashya Shilpa Abhiyan program. Dr. Pratibha Ray praised the local farmers and Vedanta’s CSR Team members for their pioneering initiative. Strawberry in Lanjigarh is really exemplary, she said.
The advisory board members also had an over view of the alumina refinery by visiting key plant areas and central control room. Prof. Mohanty commended Vedanta for using latest technology and equipments in the plant. They also planted saplings inside the plant premises.
The three member team also interacted with the senior management team members. Dr. Mukesh Kumar presented an overview of the plant and various development initiatives taken up by the Company for local area development. He thanked the visitors for the visit.