Marquee investors today are wary of companies that are seen to behave irresponsibly towards their environment -- high standards of social governance are treated as importantly as excellence in operations. Following the death of 13 protesters against Vedanta’s copper smelter in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu, in May 2018, the Labour Party in the United Kingdom asked for Vedanta Resources to be delisted from the London Stock Exchange. Earlier, the Church of England had withdrawn from Vedanta because in its efforts to set up a bauxite mine in Odisha, it had failed to respect the human rights of local people, referring to
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