The award is a testament to Cairn’s continuous excellence in digital execution

New Delhi, 7 July 2020: Cairn Oil & Gas, Vedanta Ltd., India’s largest private sector Oil and Gas Company, has been awarded Excellence in Digital Execution for Quality Transformation at TechCircle Business Transformation Awards 2020. Cairn was selected winner for “Next Generation Workplace – Office 365”, a complete cloud-based solution, which provides a set of collaboration and productivity tools to enhance security and provide remote access to the web versions of office applications.

The next generation workplace solution supported business continuity during the new normal of working from home. Cairn has been rethinking & reinventing the role of operational excellence to gear up for the future, and be part of this digital era, to enable accelerated growth. By adopting best global technologies and practices, Cairn continues to lead business transformation.

Anand Laxshmivarahan R., Chief Digital Officer, Cairn Oil & Gas, says, “Digitalisation is rapidly evolving industries across India. The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has emphasized the role and importance of technological advancements. Its adoption in the oil & gas industry is ensuring business continuity in trying times like these. In this new normal of working from home, Microsoft’s Next Generation Workplace – Office 365 has connected employees at Vedanta, to provide business solutions in real-time. We believe that technology is shaping the future of industries across India and will give India Inc. an edge in supporting the country’s economy.”

Ankur Goel, Managing Director for Poly India, says, “Poly is happy to partner with Vedanta for NextGen Workplace and provide them with our video solutions for board rooms, huddle rooms and Office 365. As industries are navigating through the new normal during this pandemic, technology plays a crucial role in helping ensure business continuity. Customers look to Poly to deliver a seamless collaboration experience across platforms like Microsoft, Zoom and many other leading platforms. We are happy to be able to support Vedanta in their digital transformation initiatives through our solutions.”

Cairn has been the recipient of a flurry of awards and recognitions for its digitalization initiatives, including the recent CIO Conclave Award 2020 it won for the same project in March. Last year, Cairn also won the FIPI award for its intensive deployment of digitalisation initiatives to drive value-creation across business operations and function, and the SAP Industry Innovation Award 2019 for “Excellence in Operations” and SAP ACE Award for “Breakthrough Innovation”.

About Cairn Oil & Gas, Vedanta Ltd.

Cairn Oil & Gas, Vedanta Ltd., is the largest private oil and gas exploration and production company in India, accounting for more than a quarter of India’s domestic crude oil production. It has a world-class resource base, with a current interest in 58 blocks in India, including the 41 blocks under the Open Acreage Licensing Policy (OALP) Round I auction, five blocks each under Round II and Round III, and two awarded under the Discovered Small Fields (DSF) Round-II. In 2004, Cairn made the largest onshore discovery in more than two decades in India at Mangala, Rajasthan. In its operations of 20 years, Cairn has opened four frontier basins with numerous discoveries, 38 in Rajasthan alone.

Vedanta Limited, a subsidiary of Vedanta Resources Limited, is one of the world’s leading Oil & Gas and Metals company with significant operations in Oil & Gas, Zinc, Lead, Silver, Copper, Iron Ore, Steel, and Aluminium & Power across India, South Africa, Namibia, and Australia. For two decades, Vedanta has been contributing to India’s growth story, currently contributing 1 percent of India’s GDP. The company is among the top private sector contributors to the exchequer with the highest ever contribution of INR 42,560 Crore in FY 2019. Governance and sustainable development are at the core of Vedanta’s strategy, with a strong focus on health, safety, and environment and on enhancing the lives of local communities. The company has been conferred the CII-ITC Sustainability Award, the FICCI CSR Award, Dun & Bradstreet Awards in Metals & Mining, and certified as a Great Place to Work. Vedanta Limited is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange in India and has ADRs listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

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