Sterlite to organise Mini Marathon to stress the importance of girl child education

Tuticorin: Sterlite Copper in association with Sports Authority of Tamil Nadu, Thoothukudi district will host a mini marathon for the denizens of Thoothukudi in the city on 3^rd March, 2013 (Sunday) from 7 AM onwards.

The objective of the marathon is to stress the importance of girl child education. More than 1000 runners are expected to participate in the event. Mr.Ashish Kumar IAS, District Collector, Thoothukudi will flag off the event in the presence of Mr.P.Ramnath, Chief Executive Officer, Sterlite Copper.

The marathon will be held for runners of five categories: men and women will run a 21 km and 10 km marathon circuit respectively. Boys and girls under 18 years of age will compete in a 10 km and 5 km run respectively while boys and girls under 12 years of age will compete in a 5 km and 3 km run respectively. Walkathon has also been arranged for men and women above 35 years of age who will run a 12 km and 5 km marathon circuit respectively. Cash prizes worth of Rs.90000 will be given out to the winners.

Participants are expected to register for the event before hand for free at the office of District Sports Officer at Tharuvai grounds. For further information contact 0461 - 2321149.

For publication please:

L.N.Balakrishnan Head - Public Relations Sterlite Copper

ln.balakrishnan@vedanta.co.in Tel:  +91 461 4242926

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Sterlite organises Inter-School Competition for girl children

Thoothukudi: As part of Ilam Mottukal Project, Sterlite Copper organised an inter-school competition for girl children at RC school, Therespuram here on Saturday.

Sterlite Copper in association with Naandi Foundation conducted the inter-school competition called ‘TALHUNT’, where nearly 1500 children from 72 different schools participated in the competition.  Events such as blasting the balloons, frog race, rhyme singing, filling water in the bottle, obeying the order (listening skill), storytelling, 200m running race, lemon race, memory game, essay writing, ball in the bucket, skipping, spellbee, shot put, dance and speech competitions were organised. The purpose of these events was to provide a platform for the girl children to showcase their hidden talents.

The event was conducted as a part of Ilam Mottukal Project launched by Sterlite in July 2012 with an objective to ensure that every girl child is provided with quality school education to realise their fullest potential. For the project, Sterlite Copper has allotted Rs 1.4 crore and will support the education of 5035 girl children from 72 Government schools in Tuticorin. Additional academic, material and moral support for the children are the key components of the programme.

Mrs A. Sumathi, Head- Health, Safety and Environment, Sterlite copper participated as the chief guest of the programme and distributed the prizes to the winners. “The main objective of the programme is to provide opportunity for the students to exhibit their skills,” said Mrs.A.Sumathi. She also listed out the various initiatives being carried out by Sterlite for the benefit of students in Thoothukudi.

Photo Cut-Line: Mrs.A.Sumathi, Head – Health, Safety and Environment, Sterlite Copper distributing the prizes to the winners of the inter-school competition organised by Sterlite Copper at RC School, Threspuram.

For further information, please contact:

L.N.Balakrishnan Head - Public Relations Sterlite Copper

ln.balakrishnan@vedanta.co.in Tel:  +91 461 424 2926

About Sterlite Industries

Sterlite Industries is India's largest non-ferrous metals and mining company with interests and operations in aluminium, copper and zinc and lead. It is a subsidiary of Vedanta Resources plc, a London-based diversified FTSE 100 metals and mining group. Sterlite Industries' main operating subsidiaries are Hindustan Zinc Limited for its zinc and lead operations; Copper Mines of Tasmania Pty Limited for its copper operations in Australia; and Bharat Aluminium Company Limited for its aluminium operations. The company operates its own copper operations in India. The company has entered the commercial energy generation business and is in the process of setting up a 2,400MW independent power plant through its wholly owned subsidiary, Sterlite Energy Limited.  Sterlite Industries is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange in India and the New York Stock Exchange in the United States.

Disclaimer

This press release contains “forward-looking statements” – that is, statements related to future, not past, events. In this context, forward-looking statements often address our expected future business and financial performance, and often contain words such as “expects,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “seeks,” “should” or “will.” Forward–looking statements by their nature address matters that are, to different degrees, uncertain. For us, uncertainties arise from the behaviour of financial and metals markets including the London Metal Exchange, fluctuations in interest and or exchange rates and metal prices; from future integration of acquired businesses; and from numerous other matters of national, regional and global scale, including those of a political, economic, business, competitive or regulatory nature. These uncertainties may cause our actual future results to be materially different that those expressed in our forward-looking statements. We do not undertake to update our forward-looking statements.