Our stakeholders are integral to who we are and how we grow. We cultivate trust and collaboration with every group connected to our business, listening actively, responding meaningfully, and ensuring that diverse perspectives shape the decisions that matter most. This includes communities, employees, investors, regulators, and business partners, each of whom contributes to strengthening our understanding of risks, opportunities, and expectations.
This continuous exchange does more than inform. It sharpens our strategy, strengthens our decision making, and ensures our actions remain aligned with the expectations of those we serve and those we impact. Together, these relationships drive long-term value creation and form the foundation on which sustainable, inclusive growth is built.
Our stakeholder engagement framework enables structured and ongoing dialogue with key groups, including communities, employees and workers, NGOs and civil society, government and regulators, investors and shareholders, and industry partners, suppliers, and customers. For each stakeholder group, the framework systematically covers key dimensions: who they are, how we engage, the frequency of engagement, what we aim to achieve, stakeholder expectations, our actions, and outcomes, ensuring a consistent and comprehensive approach to engagement.
Pillar 1: Transforming Communities · Aim 1 · Aim 2 · Aim 3
Individuals, households, and organised groups whose lives and livelihoods intersect with our operations: including farmers, indigenous communities, women's collectives, youth, local entrepreneurs, and elected village bodies across our areas of presence
Of CSR expenditure
Stakeholders impacted through CSR
Nand Ghar beneficiaries
Monthly
Pillar 3: Transforming the Workplace · Aim 7 · Aim 8
Engineers, metallurgists, frontline site workers, and corporate functions across nine business verticals, working in operationally demanding environments across India, where the quality of the workplace shapes both professional and personal lives
Safety training hours
Of Women recruited (Full time)
Women in decision-making
Avg. training hrs/employee
Employee benefit expense
Employee satisfaction score
Monthly
Pillar 3: Transforming the Workplace · Aim 9
Capital providers whose confidence in Vedanta’s strategy, governance, and long-term value creation underpins our ability to operate, invest, and grow, spanning equity shareholders, institutional and retail investors, and lenders who assess our risk profile and disclosures
Dividend declared
Shareholder complaints resolved
Average tenure of Board
Annually, Quarterly
Pillar 3: Transforming the Workplace · Aim 9
The commercial ecosystem through which Vedanta’s products reach the world: customers, suppliers, industry forums, trade bodies, and business partners whose practices and standards become an extension of our own ESG footprint
Significant suppliers assessed
Industry forums
Complaints resolved
Quarterly
Pillar 1: Transforming Communities · Pillar 2: Transforming the Planet
Independent organisations; international, national, and local; bringing sectoral expertise, community access, and advocacy capacity that complement Vedanta’s reach across human rights, environmental stewardship, health, and social welfare
Skill programme beneficiaries
Operations assessed for human rights
Sites have biodiversity management plans
Periodic consultations; project-specific engagements
Pillar 3: Transforming the Workplace · Aim 9
Central ministries, state departments, district authorities, statutory bodies, and industry associations (CII, IBBI, FIMI, FICCI, and UNGC), that constitute the institutional framework within which Vedanta operates and through which we contribute to national development
Exchequer contribution
Associations actively engaged
Cases of conflict of interest
Continuous
