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18th February 2021

Hindustan Zinc wins ‘People First HR Excellence Award 2020’

Udaipur, 18th February:  Hindustan Zinc (HZL) the leading producer of Zinc, Lead, and Silver in India, has won ‘PeopleFirst HR Excellence Award 2020′. HZL won the highest ‘Winner’ award under the category – “Leading Practices in Technology Deployment in HR”. The award was presented to the company for its overall journey in changing and implementing HR Processes by leveraging technology and automation to eliminate manual intervention and errors.

At HZL, innovation and technology form a core for any operations. In Human Resources, the digitalization approach is based on 3 pillars, Platform – streamlining and integrating HR processes by bringing them under common platforms like SAP, SuccessFactors and Mobility SAP Fiori; People –  encouraging a culture of innovation and sharing among the workforce and activating a digital mindset through a robust change initiative; Work – leveraging digital tools, and apps to deliver solutions to change the way we work and support continuous experimentation and innovation.

Hindustan Zinc has always been at the forefront when it comes to adopting, innovating and creating solutions for a superior and technologically efficient workforce. The company especially tends to align talent with shifting realities, and technology plays a key role of significance to enable this paradigm shift in people practices.

The PeopleFirst HR Excellence Award recognizes the finest initiatives in Human Resources by organizations across geographies and provides opportunity for experts in the profession to appreciate and share world class practices adopted and implemented by them. Nominations were reviewed for usage of technology to move HR forward, either by implementing HR software and analytical systems, online recruitment, e-Learning programs, Talent Management & Development, MDP or Leadership Development.

About Hindustan Zinc Limited

Hindustan Zinc, a Vedanta Group company in Zinc-Lead and Silver business is world’s 2nd largest integrated Zinc producer and 5th largest Silver producer. The company governs about ~80% of the growing Zinc market in India with its headquarters at Udaipur along with Zinc-Lead mines and smelting complexes spread across the state of Rajasthan.

Hindustan Zinc is self-sufficient in power with captive thermal power plants and has ventured into green energy by setting-up wind power plants. The company ranked highest in the S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment in 2023 amongst Metals & Mining companies reflecting & reaffirming its constant commitment towards sustainable and responsible mining practices. Hindustan Zinc is a certified Water Positive company and is the only Indian company to be recognized at the S&P Global Platts Metal Award 2022 winning two prestigious awards for ‘Industry Leadership Award – Base, Precious & Specialty Metals’ Award and ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ Award. Hindustan Zinc is also the only Indian company in Mining sector with validated & approved SBTi targets in alignment with 1.5 °C target.

The company takes pride in having some of the best-in-class people practices and employee-centric initiatives, which have certified Hindustan Zinc as – ‘Great Place to Work 2023’, ‘Company with Great Managers 2022’ by People Business and the ‘People-first HR Excellence Award’.

As a socially responsible corporate, Hindustan Zinc has been relentlessly working towards transforming lives of 1.7 million people in 237 villages in the states of Rajasthan and Uttarakhand with a spend base of INR 276.3 crores in FY23 for various community development initiatives and is amongst the Top 10 CSR Companies in India.

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