Vedanta Resources plc and Lanjigarh Alumina Refinery: review of progress on recommendations

This Monitoring Review Report was commissioned as the second 6-monthly update on Vedanta’s progress in implementing the Recommendations from the original independent strategic sustainability review that Scott Wilson undertook in September 2010. The first review of progress was undertaken in July 2011 and involved visits to the Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) alumina refinery at Lanjigarh, the Sustainable Development department at its former location at Udaipur and the Hindustan Zinc Limited (HZL) plant at Chanderiya. As before, Vedanta submitted their own Second Progress Report, which was used as a basis for discussion during our visits to the VAL Lanjigarh, Bharat Aluminium Co. Ltd (BALCO) and Sesa Goa operations and the Sustainable Development office, which has relocated in Delhi.