Vedanta Power has brought in 54 new graduates through campus recruitment, with women making up 57 per cent of the cohort , a majority share that is unusual for an industry where women have historically been underrepresented, particularly in technical and operations roles.
The hires come from institutions across India and span a range of functions, including engineering, technical roles, HR, communications, finance, commercial, ESG and CSR.
The recruitment is part of a broader talent strategy at the company, which reports that 56 per cent of its workforce is currently below the age of 35. Campus hiring, combined with structured learning, leadership interaction and early exposure to operational responsibilities, forms the backbone of how Vedanta Power says it is building capability for an evolving energy sector.
To integrate the latest cohort, the company launched AAROHAN : The Rise of Power, a four-day induction programme that brings new employees together through leadership interactions, business sessions, functional learning and exposure to power-generation operations.
The campus push at Vedanta Power sits within a wider group-level push on gender representation. Across Vedanta as a whole, women accounted for 50 per cent of overall campus hires in FY26, and the group has set a target of 35 per cent women's representation across its workforce. At present, women make up 23 per cent of Vedanta's total workforce , well above the mining industry average of 6 per cent, though the gap to the group's stated target remains significant.
For early-career professionals in engineering and adjacent fields, the pattern suggests that diversity-linked campus hiring in energy and heavy industry is becoming more deliberate and more visible as a formal part of workforce planning.
