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30th September 2021

Hindustan Zinc’s Kayad Mines bags FIMI Excellence Award

  • 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 Silver embraces 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. Tondon has 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.

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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