MAGNIFICENT WOMEN AND THEIR MACHINES

As a tribute to Women’s day, we look at the trail blazers in Vedanta’s Aluminum business

- Kruti Bharadva

It has been a long held-held belief that few women would choose to take up roles in the manufacturing and heavy engineering segments and even less in the metals and mining industries. Vedanta’s aluminum and power business segment is proving this hypothesis wrong. The company has a veritable treasure trove of skilled women, all successfully handling myriad core operations and technical roles, ranging from metal production, logistics, civil work and railway infrastructure to finance, security, and commodities procurement. In fact, its plant in Odisha also has an all-women fire-fighting team.

So how has the business succeeded in a creating a healthy mix of highly trained women employees in a sector that is unconventional for women, and that too in some of the remotest parts of the country?