Social – Employees
AIKYAM – The Leadership Summit (CXO Convergence)
Hosted in Ajmer, AIKYAM convened the Company's top leadership to co-create the future of sustainable mining and operational excellence. The summit enabled meaningful strategy conversations, tight strategic alignment, and focused leadership development, inspiring fresh thinking and strengthening cross-functional collaboration to translate priorities into execution.
ASCEND – HR 2x Ready (Collaboration • Ownership • Business Impact)
ASCEND brought together HR teams from all locations to align on a unified people strategy anchored in collaboration, ownership, and business impact. The workshop sharpened HR's role as a strategic business partner, built shared priorities across sites, and strengthened a collective operating rhythm to deliver higher organisational impact on the ground.
Building Robust Leadership Bench Strength
Talent Review Council (TRC)
Through a digitally-tracked succession mechanism, 234 executives were assessed and 190+ talent cards were created, mapping successors for critical roles. During the year, we have completed TRC for 234 high potentials (HiPos) in smelters and 144 HiPos in mines, while 100% rotations were executed in sensitive functions, boosting risk mitigation and internal mobility.
Accelerated Competency Tracking & Upgradation (ACT UP)
ACT UP is a flagship programme designed to identify and nurture future leaders by unlocking their potential, building key competencies, and creating growth opportunities. 290+ emerging leaders were evaluated through situational judgement and gamified assessments, out of which 54 ACT UP Stars (38 technical and 16 business stars) were fast-tracked into larger roles with personalised mentorship to ensure accelerated-readiness.
Executive Coaching
In partnership with Dale Carnegie, 13 mid-senior leaders completed psychometrics, 360° feedback, and 312 hours of tailored coaching, elevating influence, communication, and decision quality for larger spans of control.
IGNITE: Sponsorship for Women Leaders
IGNITE advances women leadership through a 12-month sponsorship-based journey that builds confidence, leadership identity, and mobility, strengthening the pipeline across operations and enabling functions.
Under IGNITE, a peer-driven coaching model was initiated for 16 women employees to promote collaborative learning and experiential development. This enabled experience sharing, collective problem-solving, and real-time application of learning through structured coaching conversations, supported by active leader sponsorship.
Disruptive Talent Management Initiatives
SHIKHAR – Fast Track for Early Talent
A structured pathway for graduate engineering trainees (GETs) and management trainees (MTs) that blends mentoring, cross-functional exposure, and career acceleration. SHIKHAR NextGen focuses on retaining 46 high-potential early talent and readying them for expanded responsibilities.
SmeltInnovators – Innovation in Smelter Talent
A practice-led initiative to surface, test, and scale ideas from frontline smelter teams. By pairing subject matter experts with data and operations leaders, SmeltInnovators converts practical insights into measurable productivity, safety, and quality outcomes.
V Aspire
A leadership aspiration platform launched at the Group level, that spotlights 159 high potential talent and codifies clear, merit-based pathways to enterprise leadership roles, ensuring transparency in growth journeys. This creates a strong, future-ready leadership pipeline aligned with long-term strategic priorities.
AI Committee Formation
Formed a cross-functional forum guiding responsible AI adoption in talent, safety, and operations, embedding digital fluency and governance into people practices.
