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The air was electric… filled with a greater sense of

motivation, responsibility and a promise that needed to be delivered with a true emotion of solemnity. The scale of welfare activities undertaken by Vedanta Foundation is what is unique about us, and we are proud of it. Considering the volume of activities undertaken, it is very easy to lose sight of the mission. However, in pursuit of bringing in a revelation, the foundation, dedicatedly works for the service of the underprivileged section of the society who account to a majority in diverse country like India. Perhaps through this newsletter we hope to bring to you snippets that capture the work of our teams who commit to selflessly contribute towards our visionary’s- fondly called babuji’s dream that aims for the prosperity of the community. Without further ado, I proudly present to you the 1st edition of the foundations newsletter- VEDVANI….

In this Edition Editors Desk

History Zonal Achievements

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Editor’s Desk

Origin of an Awe-Inspiring Vision

A lot has been happening in Vedanta Foundation since its initiation in the early 90’s… While so much has been done, there is very little that has been written about this noble institution. Being the first issue, it is difficult to paint the glorious portrait of the Foundation’s contributions in a small canvas. Since 1992, Vedanta Foundation has been a philanthropic initiative of London-listed Vedanta Resources Plc. The Foundation is a Public Charitable Trust registered under the Bombay Public Trust Act, 1950 and the Foreign Contributions Regulations Act, 1976. It is approved under the U/S35AC, U/S 80G of the Income Tax Act, 1961. The Foundation has a Vedanta Post-Graduate Girl's College at Ringus, Rajasthan with hostel facilities and a Vedanta College of Management and Information Technology at Vitthalwadi, Mumbai that offers undergraduate courses and imparts training into various vocational skills. Call centers have been installed at both the colleges to support the initiative of 'Earn While You Learn'. Likewise, Vedanta's E-Shiksha @ Schools have been instituted in the interiors of various states across India. The Foundation’s Gurukul provides primary education to children and the Anganwadi programme is designed as a daycare to manage the children from 2-6 years. In addition, an MR school for the differently abled children has also been established at Vitthalwadi. The Foundation is actively involved in women empowerment programmes like Sakhi and many others like Rojgar Avsar and Computer Literacy Centers. Vedanta’s Umeed aims to train jail inmates with basic computer skills and provide them with suitable placement opportunities upon their release. In addition, the Foundation’s Charitable Hospital and Research center is one of the notable contributions in Ringus, Rajasthan. Besides these activities, a Mass Marriage ceremony was organized by the Foundation to help the tribal community in Maharashtra.

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Know- No bars

Women’s Day Celebration

8th March 2014

Superintendent: Mr. Jayant Naik

Jailor: Mr. Deshmukh

Corporate: Mrs. Sangeeta Gaikwad

Vedanta Representative: Madesh Nagare

Activities List: Essay, Drawing, Musical Chair, Mehandi, Rangoli competition,

Sarees distribution

Nashik Central Jail

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Spencer Retail Ltd. in Kolkata Metro….

Vedanta Foundation organized a Placement Drive Activity for ‘Spencer Retail Ltd.

in Kolkata Metro where Spencer Retails interviewed for Customer Service

Associate-Fashion & Cash Dept on 15th January 2014 for the Students of Kolkata

Metro & South Bengal in Park Street Own Centre, Kolkata. After the final round

interview 16 out of 25 shortlisted students got selected for Customer Service

Associate & NST profile with a salary of Rs.7000P/M and Rs.4500P/M respectively.

“Suvidhaa” for Odishans

Vedanta Foundation took the noble initiative to help the Project Affected People

(PAP) and the villagers under its project “Suvidhaa”.

For the very reason the foundation distributed rajai’s to 17 villages. The activity

was conducted from the 18th January till 1st February.

The distribution program started from the village of Rengopali on 18th January

and also covered Sindhbahali and Bundel. On 22nd January villages Basantpada

and Jaggannathpur were considered for the distribution process.

On the eve of Republic Day- 26th January Rajai distribution was organised in the

Lanjigarh High school ground. On 31st January six villages, Old Batelima,

Khomankhunti, Chandanpur, Jodabondha and Babuguda were benefitted

through the distribution process.

Another 5 villages, Kenduguda, Patrapada, Mohanguda, Bilatipada and

Nangalbeda were drawn in the distribution map on 1st February.

In this project around 1631 blankets were distributed among the beneficiaries.

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Inauguration of Centers

22nd of January- tailoring centers in Champadeipur & Biswanathpur

23 rd of January- village center in Amblavata; computer centre in Muniguda

20th of February- village centre in Paikoranipinda

Empowering wOMAn!!!

On 8th of March the world celebrated international women’s day; Vedanta

Foundation left no stone unturned to commemorate this day and so along with

Sesa Sterlite Ltd arranged a program at Vedanta nagar – Lanjigarh to felicitate

women employees and local female residents. Guest’s like Sankutala Nandruka

(Deputy Chairman, zilla parishad, Rayagada), Shukla Chakraborty(Principal ,DAV

Vedanta International school), Jyostna Mishra( Lady supervisor, ICDS, Lanjigarh),

Swarnalata Mohanty(Principal, Anganwadi Training centre, Bhawanipatna),

Adarsh Gupta(president, ladies club, Sesa Sterlite limited), Tapaswini

Mishra(Principal , DAV, Rourkela),Dr. Mukesh Kumar- President and COO SSL and

H.K Mohanty- Principal AWTC addressed the occasion.

A host of programs like welcome song by Khusi centre students (girls),

introduction speech given by Balakrishna (Area coordinator of Vedanta Bal

chetna, Lanjigarh, child care unit of Vedanta foundation). A welcome note was

given by Ms. Tapaswini Ray (Asst Area coordinator) and Cultural programs like

music and dance were a special attraction. The most important point of

attraction was when a pledge that was taken by all the members to support and

encourage women in every aspect. The program ended with prize distribution

ceremony where prize were distributed to all the participants.

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CSR team of Sesa Sterlite Ltd. Mr. Kaustav Ratan Kundu (Head HR), Jalaj Malpani

(Finance head),Ranjan Sharma(CSR head) and local villagers, community heads,

Child care workers, ASHA workers, Khusi centre girls’ students, Auxiliary Nurse

Midwifery students (ANMS) from Muniguda High school were also present.

Kudos to Vedanta Foundation’s North zone

Vedanta Foundation’s North Zone was awarded with an appreciation letter for

developing a computer lab for Sarswati Vidhya Mandir T.T, College, Lambor,

Churu. With regards to the same, they expressed their feelings with an

appreciation letter.

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Gurukul

Gurukul Students display an excellent art work at their project day!!!!

Editorial Board

Editor- Diana Gonsalves (Exe. Branding and Communication) | Design- Yatish Parchhe

Content courtesy – East Zone /North Zone /West Zone