Hindustan Zinc : Baal Mela spreads smiles on the faces of more than 6000 children across 265 Khushi Anganwadis

• Baal Mela organized in 265 Khushi anganwadis across 5 districts of Rajasthan including Chittorgarh, Bhilwara, Rajsamand, Ajmer and Udaipur
• Children participated in dance, poem reciting, and fancy dress along with other sport activities like Jalebi Race, Lemon Race with great enthusiasm

Udaipur, 21st November 2022 - Hindustan Zinc under its Khushi Project organized Baal Mela across 265 Anganwadi Centres where more than 6000 children and their parents from across 5 districts including Chittorgarh, Bhilwara, Ajmer, Rajsamand, and Udaipur came together to celebrate the little, tiny tots and their joyful spirits.

As part of the celebrations, Baal Mela was organized which witnessed fun activities like dance, poem recitation and fancy dress. The tiny tots actively participated in all the activities with great ardour and joy. Additionally, keeping in mind the interests of different age groups, several sports events such as hit the pyramid, jalebi race, lemon race were conducted to cheer up the athletic spirit among the young ones.

Khushi Anganwadi programme aims to enhance early childhood intervention across 3,145 Anganwadi centres in five districts of Rajasthan. It is further continuously touching the lives of more than 1,60,000 children across 2400 villages in 5 districts of Rajasthan by actively working on improving health & nutrition, imparting preschool learning, and community engagement.

Hindustan Zinc has been touching the lives of around 1.4 million people through its long-term community development initiatives and is also the only Indian company to be recognised at the S&P Global Platts Metal Award 2022 and has won the prestigious award 'Corporate Social Responsibility' Award.

Hindustan Zinc, a Vedanta Group Company, is one of the world's largest and India's only integrated producer of Zinc-Lead and Silver. The Company has its headquarters at Udaipur in the State of Rajasthan where it has its Zinc-Lead mines and smelting complexes. Hindustan Zinc is self-sufficient in power with captive thermal power plants and has ventured into green energy by setting upwind power plants. The Company is ranked 1st in Asia-Pacific and globally 5th in Dow Jones Sustainability Index in 2021 amongst Mining & Metal companies. Hindustan Zinc is a certified Water Positive Company and is the only Indian company to be recognised at the S&P Global Platts Metal Award 2022 and has won the two prestigious awards for 'Industry Leadership Award - Base, Precious and Specialty Metals' Award and 'Corporate Social Responsibility' Award.

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 2022', 'Company with Great Managers 2020' by People Business and the PeopleFirst HR Excellence Award.

As a socially responsible corporate, Hindustan Zinc has been relentlessly working to improve the lives of rural and tribal people residing near its business locations. The company is amongst the Top 15 CSR Spenders in India and is currently transforming the lives of 1.4 million people in 234 villages out of which 184 in Rajasthan, 34 in Uttarakhand and 16 villages in Gujarat. As a market leader, Hindustan Zinc governs about ~80% of the growing Zinc market in India.

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