I Am Sterlite January 2015 by Sterlite Communications

ISSUE 1 | VOL.4 | JANUARY 2015

I AM STERLITE CONNECTING EVERY HOME ON THE PLANET

We make it easier, faster and more cost effective for service providers to build telecom & power infrastructures.

HERO FUTURE ENERGY Sterlite's Optical Fiber in Wind Power Generation

TECHNOLOGY Bend insensitive 200 micron optical fiber

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INDEX Sr. No 1

Topic

NEWSROOM Page No

News Room Sterlite Grid successfully commissions India’s ? rst Ultra Mega Transmission project.................................................................................2 Sterlite Grid wins two more power transmission projects.........................................................................................2

Business Update Sterlite’s Business Performance in Q3 FY14.......................................................3 - 4

Technology Optical Fiber for Metro and Premise Networks......................................................5 - 6

Six Sigma Unleash Your Potential.....................................................................................................7 - 8

Client Feature Sterlite's Optical Fiber in Wind Power Generation................................................9

The CSR Edge Jeevan Jyoti Initiative........................................................................................................10

Managing Better Management Excellence Program...............................................................................11 - 12

Events.....................................................................................................................................13 - 15 SCAT 2014 FUTURECOM 2014 Sterlite Telecom Sales Connect

Being Sterlitian................................................................................................................ 16-21 • Moments of Celebration Across Various Offices • Wedding Bells • Sterlite Babies Latest Happenings.......................................................................................................... 22

Sterlite Roll of Honour.................................................................................................23 - 24

Clicking Excellence Internal Photography Competition.............................................................................25 - 26

What's Tweeting...............................................................................................................27

Beyond Reading............................................................................................................... 28

Sterlite Grid completes India's First Ultra Mega Power Transmission Project

Sterlite Grid commissions two lines and two substations of the Bhopal – Dhule Transmission project

Enables Northern region to import surplus power from North-Eastern & Eastern Regions

Sterlite Grid Limited (SGL) announced another milestone achievement with the successful commissioning of two lines and two substations of Bhopal Dhule Transmission Company Ltd. (BDTCL). BDTCL is a wholly owned special purpose vehicle of SGL and is executing a set of transmission lines and substations for the strengthening of the national grid. The company commissioned and put into operation two 765 kV Substations each having capacity of 3000 MW at Bhopal and Dhule and 765kV single circuit transmission lines connecting Bhopal to Indore and Dhule to Aurangabad.

Sterlite Grid Limited, a subsidiary of Sterlite Technologies Limited, announced a major milestone with the successful commissioning of India's first Ultra Mega Transmission Project. The first line in this project connecting Purnea and Bihar Sharif was commissioned in September 2013, which was the first 400 KV line to cross the river Ganges since Independence. The second line which is about 225km long connects Bongaigaon in Assam to Siliguri in West Bengal. The 400 KV double-circuit quad transmission line was commissioned today making the East-North Interconnection Company Ltd. (ENICL) fully operational. ENICL project transmission lines were identified as one of the highest priority lines by Power System Operation Corporation Limited (POSOCO) as they provide critical connectivity for transfer of power from the power plants in the North Eastern (NE) region. Also, this project will address the critical issue of power shortfall during non-monsoon months bringing significant relief to the residents of Assam. Transmission lines in this project pass through some of the most difficult terrains in Bihar, West Bengal and Assam. The construction of these lines were completed by overcoming several challenges including natural calamities like floods & earthquakes, crossing of large rivers such as Ganges, Teesta, Kosi, etc., riots in Kokrajhar and right-of-way hurdles.

This network will facilitate the transfer of upto 5000MW of electricity from the coal-belt in the east, to the energy hungry regions of western and northern India. This network will also provide energy stability to the industrial belts of Indore, Dewas and Aurangabad. Sterlite was able to commission these lines and substations in record-time despite severe right-of-way issues and tremendous delays in forest clearances. To overcome these challenges and to expedite the project execution, Sterlite has introduced helicopter stringing for the first time in India. The commissioned parts of the project represent 62% of the total tariff of the BDTCL project. The balance elements of this project are in advanced stages of completion and will be commissioned in the coming months.

Says Mr. Pravin Agarwal, Chairman, Sterlite Grid Ltd.," The completion of ENICL project is a great achievement for the company, and has helped double the power transfer to the region, impacting the lives of millions of residents. This has also been a great testimony to Sterlite's robust project engineering capabilities and takes us a step closer to achieving our vision of connecting every home on the planet. We remain grateful to the State Governments of West Bengal, Assam and Bihar, Ministry of Power and Project Monitoring Group under Cabinet Committee for Investment for their unwavering support for this project of national importance."

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BUSINESS UPDATE

Sterlite Technologies reports Q2 EBITDA growth of 14% ….Begins Q3 with an all-time high order book of Rs. 4,900 Crores Let's take a look through the key highlights in the business of financial performance and the industry outlook for each of the business segments for quarter ended September 30, 2014.

Financial highlights for Q2, FY 14-15 • Revenues of Rs. 592 Crores and EBITDA at Rs. 81 Crores both showing positive growth over the last quarter.

• Telecom business revenues were at Rs. 287 Crores, with 26% EBITDA margin for the quarter. • Power business is showing signs of revival with Q2 revenues at Rs. 287 Crores up 25% Q-o-Q but still remain below historic averages. • The order book stands at Rs. 4,900 Crores split fairly evenly between the Telecom and Power Business.

Quarter Ended Sep 30

Quarter Ended June 30

Quarter Ended Sep 30

Quarter Ended March 31

Q2, FY 15

Q1, FY 15

Q2, FY 14

H1, FY 15

H1, FY 14

FY 14

Net Revenues (INR Cr)

592

564

642

1,156

1,401

2,726

Net Revenues (Mn USD)

107

193

234

454

EBITDA (INR Cr)

153

144

271

EBITDA (Mn USD)

Net Income (INR Cr)

Net Income (Mn USD)

Standalone Financials

*USD to INR at Rs. 60

Business Highlights • In the Telecom segment, our Brazil JV became operational during the quarter and we recorded the first supplies from that facility to the growing LATAM market .• We have signed a Joint Venture agreement with VISCAS Corporation, Japan, who will invest in our existing power cable facilities for manufacturing HV/EHV cables in India. • In the infrastructure segment, one of the lines for the BDTCL (Bhopal Dhule Transmission Company ltd.) and the Bhopal substation were charged and have become operational. The second line in the ENICL (East North Interconnection Company Ltd.) is nearing completion and is expected to start generating revenues soon.

• We added new accounts in the international markets by securing orders from a major telecom operator in the LATAM market, and repeat orders from some of the key accounts in the Middle East region. • The Power segment showed signs of picking up with increase in domestic activity as well as creating access to new geographies in Africa and Europe for OPGW and Overhead T&D Conductors. • With the increasing renewable energy focus across the country, Sterlite is adding certain key renewable energy customers in India and abroad.

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TECHNOLOGY

Bend insensitive 200 micron optical fiber

Glass Clad, 125 µm diameter Inner (Primary) Coating, around 165 µm diameter

Outer (Secondary) Coating, 190-200 µm diameter Color ink layer, around 200 -210 µm diameter

B. Reduced Coating Diameter SMF Figure 1 Schematic Cross sectional view of SMF (not to scale)

Challenges in cable deployment in optical networks There are two major challenges in cable deployment in high capacity optical networks – limited space in distribution network and tighter bends in subscriber loop.

Optical fiber is used in all modern optical communications including long-haul, regional, access, and FTTX networks. An optical fiber is made up of three layers, namely, core, cladding, and coating. Light is guided down the center of the fiber called the "core". The core is surrounded by an optical material called the "cladding" that contains the light in the core using an optical phenomenon called "total internal reflection." The fiber is coated by a buffer layer that protects it from moisture and physical damage. The buffer or “coating” is what one strips off the fiber for termination or splicing. More protection is provided by the cable which has the fibers and strength members inside an outer protective covering called a "jacket" or a "sheath." Glass cladding and outer coating diameter are standardized to 125 µm and 250 µm respectively in various international standards and recommendations. Standardization of these two critical dimensions of silica glass optical fiber has ensured-compatibility between optical networks across the globe. Currently, single mode optical fiber with a reduced 200 µm coating diameter and 125 µm cladding diameter is

commercially available. The 125 µm cladding diameter ensures backward compatibility with existing optical network. Fig. 1 shows a comparison between 250 µm and 200 µm coated fiber. This reduced diameter optical fiber opens up options for producing cable with more compact designs allowing more penetration depth in access and FTTX networks. Glass Clad, 125 µm diameter Inner (Primary) Coating, around 190 µm diameter

Outer (Secondary) Coating, around 242µm diameter Color ink layer, around 250-255µm diameter

Although high fiber count cable is a solution to handle large volume of information, this option is not always suitable due to limited space in installed ducts. Installation of new ducts is an expensive & time consuming operation and to get right of way approval from the government & other local bodies is a tedious task too. At present, successful penetration of optical fibers into the local distribution networks depends on the development of small, flexible, lightweight and cost effective cables. In addition, cable blowing distances can be vastly increased using smaller and lightweight cables reducing deployment costs. Therefore, reduced diameter cables called ‘micro cables’ have become popular during duct and cable installation. Compact cable design can be achieved by increasing fiber packing density, and reducing size of the cable elements and fiber. A significant improvement in fiber density in optical cables can be achieved by using bend insensitive 200 micron optical fibers. Although this type of design has higher packing density, it can result in higher optical loss due to micro-bending effect. Use of bend improved ITU-T G.657 category fibers with micro-bend resistant coating reduces micro-bend loss and helps to achieve targeted cable attenuation.

Compatibility of 200 micron fiber In the 200 micron fiber, diameter of the coating layers is reduced in comparison to conventional fiber whereas diameter and other characteristics of glass cladding remain same. In the field, 200 micron fiber works well with the existing tools and practices during stripping and splicing. Once coating is stripped out, cladding diameter is 125 micron which is same as conventional 250 microns Single Mode Fiber (SMF); therefore cleaving and fusion splicing can be performed with the same tools. The splice losses in 200 micron fibers are also well below ITU requirement of

maximum splice loss. This fiber has little impact on single fiber connectors as fiber is up-jacketed before connectorization. However, use of 200 micron fiber in ribbon structure is currently under study. Outer coating diameter decides spacing between two adjacent fibers in a ribbon structure and thus effectiveness of mass fusion splicing. Therefore, if splicing to existing 250 micron ribbon cables is a requirement, the ribbon structure of 200 micron fiber with the spacing equal to 250 micron ribbon is needed. Sterlite’s 200 micron fiber are fully backward compatible with existing fibers, and other reliability parameters controlling fiber life time like proof-test level, dynamic fatigue (Nd), tensile strength of both un-aged & aged fibers, and change in attenuation due to environmental aging, etc. meet the requirement of IEC 60793-2-50 standard. Use of next generation coating provides the same reliability level even after reduction of coating diameter. Bend improved single mode optical fiber with reduced coating diameter of 200 micron fiber is compatible with existing 250 micron fiber in optical networks and provides 38% lesser cross-section area allowing more compact micro cable designs. Sterlite’s MICRO BOW-LITE™ and MICRO BOW-LITE™ (E) are 200 micron ITU-T G.657.A1 and G.657.A2/B2 category fiber respectively and provide a novel and reliable solution to tighter bends and limited duct space frequently encountered in real-life network deployments.

About the Author Sudipta Bhaumik is an Associate General Manager in Sterlite Technologies Limited. He holds a bachelor’s degree and master’s in ceramic technology. He has been engaged with research on quality, reliability and application related issues of optical fiber & cable. Sudipta is an expert member of IEC, ITU-T and BIS technical committees. He has authored / co-authored over 25 research papers, white paper and application notes and is recipient of Urbain J. H. Malo medal by Wire Association International, Boston, USA for most meritorious technical paper.

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SIX SIGMA

Control Variation: Unleash Your Potential

Why Six Sigma?

Fierce competition among companies is motivating them to continuously improve customer satisfaction. Similarly, due to the numerous options available to the customer today, there has been an exponential rise in customer expectation. Globalization and instant access to information, products and services have changed the way our customers conduct business - old business models no longer work. Today's competitive environment leaves no room for error. We must delight our customers and relentlessly look for new ways to exceed their expectations. This is why Six Sigma has become an integral part of Sterlite Technologies. This is one methodology that will change the way an organization performs in the market in terms of your product quality.

To accelerate our rate of improvement of quality and productivity faster than our competitors! Customers don't judge us on averages; they feel the variance in each transaction and each product we ship. Six Sigma focuses first on reducing process variation and then on improving the process capability. Customers value consistent, predictable business processes that deliver world-class levels of quality. This is what Six Sigma strives to produce. The word is a statistical term that measures how far a given process deviates from perfection. The central idea behind Six Sigma is that if you can measure how many "defects" you have in a process, you can systematically figure out how to eliminate them and get as close to "zero defects" as possible. A Six Sigma Process is capable of Producing 999966 rights out of every 1 Million Opportunities.

Benefits of the Six Sigma Approach

What is Six Sigma ? Six Sigma is a disciplined, data-driven approach and methodology for eliminating defects standard in any process – from manufacturing to transactional and from product to service.

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Enhances employee’s skill of decision-making and problem solving.

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Makes People Better Managers due to improved Decision-making.

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Customer Focused & Business Results Driven.

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Facilitates Data Driven & Fact Based Decisions.

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Exponential Improvement in Quality.

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Drastic reduction in scrap levels.

Rigor of Six Sigma Roadmap ensures Tool Discipline & improves Success Rate.

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Process Yield Increases up to 99.9997%

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It is more about Depth than Width.

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Increased profitability.

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High Customer Satisfaction and Increase in Sales.

It reduces Variation, Waste & makes our Processes more Predictable.

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Reduced Cycle Times.

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Delivers Accelerated Business Results – It’s a Business Performance Enhancer.

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It’s an established process with a proven history. -Article contributed by Vikas Rawat

Process SIGMA Table

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Sterlite Six-Sigma Wave-1 (Oct-13 to Feb-14)

SIGMA Level

Defect Rate

Yield

2σ

308,770 dempo

69.10000%

3σ

66,811 dempo

93.33000%

4σ

6,210 dempo

99.38000%

5σ

233 dempo

99.97700%

6σ

3.44 dempo

99.99966%

19 Six Sigma Green Belt certificates awarded.

letter of Greek Alphabet which is Symbol for Standard deviation. Standard deviation is the Unit of Variation.

Sterlite Six-Sigma Wave-2 (July-14 to Dec-14)

Sterlite Six-Sigma Wave-3 (Oct-14 to Feb-15)

Roles in Six Sigma

Project Sponsor, Supports the project leader and normally the customer and resource provider to the project. Follow-up the project and leverage the gains

Black/Green Belts, Leading teams in getting results through Six Sigma projects. Black Belts are fulltime committed and Green Belts part-time

Six Sigma Champion, Group, Division and BULevel Deployment, responsibility and the programme process owner within the organisation.

Master Black Belt, Is a specially trained and very experienced Black Belt. Provides Black/Green Belt and Champion training and coaches the Belts in the projects. May lead own projects.

Six Sigma Steering group, i.e Management team, responsible for running the Six Sigma Programme within the organisation scope.

Process Owner, Is responsible for the design of the common process and decides on any changes of that process.

Controller, Initial evaluator of the project to define the potential economical gains. Monitor and confirm projects results.

Project Team Members, Cross functional, with good business process knowledge.

July 2014 Six Sigma Wave-2 started with 15 projects

14 Projects identified from different departments have an estimated potential of over 10 Crores.

How 6 Sigma Works? The Six Sigma Methodology Follows DMAIC approach.

? DEFINE Define the problem

MEASURE Map out the current process

ANALYZE Identify the cause of the problem

IMPROVE Implement and verify the solution

CONTROL Maintain the solution 8

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CLIENT FEATURE

THE CSR EDGE

Hero Future Energy

Jeevan Jyoti Initiative

Sterlite's Optical Fiber in Wind Power Generation About the Customer Hero Future Energies (HFE), a part of the US$ 5.6 billion Hero Group, is a Renewable Energies Company generating power by deploying best-in-class Green Technologies. Operational since 2012 in the field of generation and distribution of renewable energies, HFE carries legacy of The Hero Group; a strategic decision of the Group to enter the domain of power generation from clean and non-polluting sources of energy. The company commissioned its pilot project of 37.5 MW in Rajasthan, India in 2013 and is also setting up 5MW wind power plant in Satara, India as a part of their plans to develop over 1 GW+ of renewable energy assets by 2016.

way to monitor wind turbines for early warning of failures and performance issues. HFE required a fiber optic cabling solution for their project in Satara. The uniqueness about the system is that the fiber optic cables needed to be placed along with the Transmission line to implement SCADA system.

Sterlite’s Solution Through a consultative approach, Sterlite helped HFE with selection of a cable design that is suitable for this application. The communication system that connects 30 wind turbines in this wind power project uses Sterlite’s Single Mode (G.652.D) Multi-tube Single Sheath Figure 8 Aerial Lite Optical Fiber Cable. •

The cables will be used for aerial installation application with internal power evacuation lines.

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These cables have integrated extra high strength (EHS) stranded steel messenger wire as a support strand which provides high tensile strength to the cable and make them ideal for such aerial installation.

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This design provides easy and economical one-step installation and stable performance over a wide temperature range and is compatible with any local distribution telecommunication network.

Sterlite Tech Foundation in partnership with Jnana Prabodhini launched a women empowerment centre in September 2014 for the empowerment of women in Velhe Taluka. The project aptly titled Jeevan Jyoti aims to empower women and make them financially, socially and psychologically independent. The centre is a holistic development centre with classroom trainings, workshops, practical labs, library, sports ground, health centre etc. This project aims to empower women by training them under various skill development programs. Here is a brief of all the programs. • Home Nursing: A three month vocational training program for girls who seek to work at various homes in cities for taking care of geriatric patients, baby care or care of bed ridden patients. They are equipped with the knowledge of basics of human body, nursing art, geriatric care, post natal and baby care and management of bed ridden patients. They mostly serve as patient assistants. • Assistant Nursing: A twelve month intensive nursing program which comprises of 6 months of classroom training and 6 months of practical internship with the attached hospital. This program creates junior or assistant nurses who work at various healthcare set ups including multi specialty hospitals, clinics, community health center or any other health care set up. These students have a basic educational background of 9th pass and above. The students are equipped with the detailed knowledge of

human body and nursing art along with pre and postoperative care. The program aims primarily at educating the girls about their own body and environment and how to keep themselves and the community healthy. They work as brand ambassadors of health in their own community/village. This kind of a program is also helping to bridge the gap between the demand and supply of nurses in urban and rural India. These assistant nurses are of great help to the doctors and paramedic teams. They also work as community health workers for the care of women and children. • Tailoring: A six months training program in the basics of tailoring and stitching various dresses in order to make the women financially independent. The women learn the art of stitching and are trained to a level from where they start their own tailoring shop or work at a textile factory to earn a livelihood and get a respectful position. • Computer Literacy: A six months training program for basics of computer science teaching the school/college students/dropouts the basics of Computer including MS office package. The program aims to enable the students with the skills required to operate a computer independently, work as a clerk/data entry operator or pursue higher education in computer science. The curriculum being used is that of MSCIT. -Article contributed by Ankur Agrawal

Business Challenges To improve turbine reliability and reduce maintenance costs , it is necessary to continuously monitor the wind turbines using automated failure detection algorithm so that any unnecessary scheduled maintenance can be avoided. A supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) data based monitoring system uses data collected at one of the wind turbines that acts as a controller. It is a cost-effective 9

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MANAGING BETTER Management Excellence Program Are good leaders born or made? This age old question has perplexed many great minds but modern science seems to have found an answer. Great leaders are made through hard work and the right amount of guidance. The Harvard university approves of this fact and we at Sterlite L&D believe in it.

A key intervention is the MEP (Managerial Excellence Program). This is a custom workshop for which the fourth batch was recently held in Pune and other than great feedback from the participants, there were a lot of business relevant reasons that made this program special; but first; let’s understand what MEP is all about.

The learning and development team (A part of the HRM function) works hard to drive initiatives that make a difference to how work is done at work. Be it a campus to corporate program for the newest team members or a specifically designed program for the entire IT team to assist them on their journey of becoming business enablers. Learning and Development plays a critical role in changing ‘what is’ into ‘what it needs to be’.

MEP – Managerial Excellence Program is a custom designed learning plan spread over 3 months that includes two classroom sessions and a field project leading to the ‘Sterlite-ITrain MEP Certificate of Performance’

Day 25-35: Whatsapp Group Follow Up / E Making List Recap Mailers/ 1 Follow up Callper group

Day 45-55: Workshop 2 Delivery/Evaluation through Refresher Session and Project Presentation/ Regrouping - Re-actionplanning / Cycle Repeat

Day 75-85: Project Summary Refresher / Final Project Review & Presentation / Certification and Evaluation

This program is designed for Managers (M7-M5) and is

Excellence, its DNA – Humility, Passion and Competence

built around three key elements: Sterlite’s value of

and the specifically drafted managerial competencies:

Managerial Competencies

Definition

Target & Achievement Orientation

Having the drive and passion to take up challenges and trying something new that will achieve target within timelines and improve organizational results

People Orientation

Driving & Inspiring People to Collaborate for achieving organizational objective

System & Process Orientation

Creating and driving processes that facilitates sustainable organizational performance

Analytical /Problem Solving skills

Obtaining, analyzing and interpreting data and information for problem solving.

Being a custom designed workshop it focuses on real-time Sterlite values, challenges and ground realities to help people learn. This learning is then implemented and reviewed in the form of an action learning project. Only those teams/people that complete the project are a certified as ‘Sterlite – I Train MEP Practitioner’ If you are not at a managerial level yet to attend this workshop, don’t be disappointed as there are a lot of learning opportunities available for you in 2015. Connect with you HR/L&D SPOC to know more. If you are a manager, here are the top 5 reasons that will tell you why you should not miss the MEP: 1.

It’s not a general course in managerial excellence. It has been designed specifically designed for Sterlite and took over 30 days to do so. This means, a lot of what is discussed is directly related to you and your business

2. Competencies and Values are the lifeblood for any organization. If you are a professional who imbibes and demonstrates these and demonstrates them, you cannot be going wrong with your career. The MEP helps you manage that expectation. 3.

Four batches of the MEP 1 named ‘Good to Great’ have been rolled out and 100% of the participants have recommended this for their colleagues, both at the plant and at the corporate / sales offices.

4. More than 15 business related projects are underway and will be reviewed in January/ February 2015. This will form an essential milestone in the 90 day curriculum that gets you business attention and gives an opportunity to make an impact. 5. This MEP is being designed and delivered by I Train Consultants (I) Pvt. Ltd. It is a renowned Learning and Development consulting firm which works with 11

organizations like the International Labour Organization, Maruti Suzuki, Vodafone, SAP, McKinsey and Bank of America. With over 190 clients, I Train brings a lot of relevant expertise both from an organizational and Indian cultural standpoint. This ensures that when you are attending the MEP – You are in good hands! If you are yet to be a part of any learning intervention, you are missing out on fantastic opportunities carefully curated by your L&D team. To be a part of a program that suits your needs, be it MEP or any other intervention, you can sign up today and being a learning journey that will only make a good professional, a better person and the best asset an organization can ask for. Learning is not compulsory, neither is change and nor is survival. – William Deming

About the Author Abhinandan Chatterjee, is a Managing Partner at I Train Consultants. He works with over a 100 organizations to help drive their learning initiatives and has been associated with Sterlite for the past 6 months. He and I Train can be reached through the HR team or be contacted at www.facebook.com / itrainindia

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EVENTS

SCAT 2014

FUTURECOM 2014

Venue: World Trade Center, Mumbai

Venue: Transamerica Expo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Dates: 8th to 10th OCT 2014

Dates: 13th to 16th OCT 2014

Sterlite's Participation: Stall No F2 (Size of Stall: 29 sq-mtr)

Sterlite's Participation: Stall No G 40 (Size of Stall: 36 sq-mtr)

SCAT is India's largest exhibition exclusively for the Indian Satellite & Cable TV Industry. This year's SCAT event gathered market forces and offered a stimulating environment for business development and networking. The Trade Show showcase attracted a wide variety of exhibitors, their profiles range from CATV hardware manufacturers, broadband service and technology providers as well as satellite broadcasters and TV channels.

Our Stall - Front View 1

Our Booth received an extremely positive feedback from stakeholders during their visit. Several potential new and valuable customers were seen interacting at our booth and it was a very successful event, which further reaffirmed Sterlite's position as a trendsetter and a thought leader.

Futurecom is the largest and most qualified Telecom, IT and Internet event in Latin America. It was held from 13th to the 16th October 2014 at the Transamerica Expo Center in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The Trade Show showcased products like Communication Servers, Open Touch Converged Multimedia Communications Suite, Telephone Table, Mobile Phones, Management services, Mobility, Unified Communications, Visual Communications, and Contact Center etc. in the Industrial Products.

Our Stall - Front View 2

Our Stall - Front View

Visitors @ Booth

Team Sterlite Conduspar

State of Art facilities on display Customer Interaction @ Booth

A great deal of positive expectation could be generated about 'Sterlite Conduspar' as a new Brazilian manufacturer. Our Booth received a positive feedback from stakeholders during their visit. Several potential new and valuable customers were interacted with at our booth. Positioning as a company with "Global Expertise, Local Delivery" model, our stall was focused on showing its JV strengths in quality cable manufacturing, global presence and local solution customization capabilities.

Competitor: Fiber Home

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STERLITE TELECOM SALES CONNECT Telecom Global Connect program for this year was held in Goa, India in November 2014, Sterlitians from across all geographies came together on a single platform to celebrate success of the past year as well as to envision next year in business. 'V.30' was chosen as a fitting name for the event translating vision for the business. Our Director, CEO and COO steered the cross functional teams with their expert guidance. True to the event's theme " Dare, Dream & Deliver" the teams spent 3 days on all aspects related to next level growth for the business. Excellent performers were felicitated for their contribution to the business. It was all about stepping on the accelerator and taking that big surge ahead and it was quite a success.

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BEING STERLITIAN Celebrations @ PTB, Magarpatta Diwali Celebration PTB

November 05 to November 08, 2014. Goa.

Birthday Celebration PTB

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Celebrations @ OFC Silvassa and Dadra Copper Plants Diwali Celebration @ CC

Swach @ OFC Bengaluru Office

Diwali Celebration OFC

SPREAD @ CC Dadra

SPREAD @ CC

Swach @ OFC

Fun Friday -CC Dadra

Medical Check Up

Yoga Camp -CC Dadra

Blood Donation at PCB

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BEING STERLITIAN Snaps of Volleyball d League @ Aurangaba

Celebrations @ Aurangabad Office Celebrations @ Mumbai Office

SNL-Mumbai

Village Adoption @ Aurangabad

SNL-Mumbai

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WEDDING BELLS

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LATEST HAPPENINGS The Peshawar Attack: A Massacre of Epic Proportions

Wedding Bells 20-Oct-2014 Keerthi Lingarajappa weds R. Soniya Networks, Mumbai 03-Nov-2014 Lalit Chandra Gupta weds Ojasvani Uma Varshnoi PTB, Piparia 16-Nov-2014 Dive Rajendra Shankar weds Madhuri PTB, Rakholi 28-Nov-2014 Anup Joshi weds Anupriya OF - Waluj 30-Nov-2014 Sashikant weds Shobha CC Dadra 01-Dec-2014 Utkarsh Triphati weds Kanika OFC Rakholi 01-Dec-2014 Vishal Marwadi weds Khushbu OFC Rakholi 01-Dec-2014 Kailas Kapdane weds Nayana OF - Waluj 01-Dec-2014 Rajnish Singh weds Pallavi PCB, Haridwar 06-Dec-2014 Satish Kumar weds Dipti OF - Waluj 06-Dec-2014 Vishal Ganjoo weds Pratibha PTB, Magarpatta 06-Dec-2014 Shivam Srivastava weds Swati OFC Rakholi 06-Dec-2014 Ravi Mishra weds Shikha OFC Rakholi

On 16 December 2014, seven members of the Tehrik-iTaliban Pakistan (TTP) conducted a terrorist attack on the Army Public School in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. They entered the school and opened fire on school staff and children, killing 145 people, including 132 school children,

Pakistan and India Share the Nobel Peace Prize

Sterlite Babies Babyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Name

Date of Birth

Parent's Name

Location

Mansi Mahesh

14th Oct. 14

Mr. Mahesh S. K. & Mrs. S. Umamaheswari

Chennai

Bhuvikka Sharma

27th Nov. 14

Mr. Vineet Sharma & Mrs. Annapurna Sharma

Mumbai

Anoop Jadhav

17th Oct. 14

Mr. Sahebrao & Mrs. Shital Jadhav

Pune

Kesar Karra

7th Nov. 14

Mr. Santosh & Mrs. Sonika Pandita Karra

Aurangabad

Mr. Ankur & Mrs. Priyanka Baser

Pune

Aadit Baser

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ranging between eight and eighteen years of age. A rescue operation was launched by the Pakistan Army's Special Services Groups' (SSG) Special Forces, who killed all seven terrorists and rescued 960 people.

Two activists who fight for the rights of children were conferred the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai along with Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian activist were the chosen ones for the prestigious award. Satyarthi is the founder and head of the Global March Against Child Labour, a large conglomerate of aid groups, trade unions, and other activists working to rescue children from forced labour and other economic exploitation, and to ensure they receive education. Yousafzai became a global icon in 2012, when a Taliban gunman boarded her school bus and shot her in the head in an attempted assassination. (Thursday was the second anniversary of that incident.) Just 15 years old, she was targeted because she had written for the BBC about life under the Taliban, and in particular, highlighted their attempts to bar girls and women from attending school. She survived the shooting (though she continues to have a fatwa against her) and has gone on to become an International spokesperson for childhood education and a symbol of the struggle against Islamic extremism. Now 17, she is the youngest Nobel laureate ever, and the first to be born in Pakistan. Satyarthi is India's fifth laureate.

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BEYOND READING We always look for books which are not just entertaining to read, but help us evolve as well. Not every book matches that criterion. Keeping that in mind, we bring you a couple of book reviews which will help you go a step beyond reading.

The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All -Micheal Useem To prove their various points, most books on business leadership focus strictly on either a series of standard, contemporary corporate illustrations or a single nontraditional model (such as a specific historic personality or a classic manuscript such as the Tao Te Ching). But Michael Useem, director of the Center for Leadership at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, has long used poignant real-life examples of people facing their "moments of truth"--regardless of the setting--to teach students how best to perform under the pressures they will face in the business world. In The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All, Useem presents some of these surprisingly effective profiles to show how others have responded when push truly comes to shove. Among them are: the story of Roy Vagelos championing an unprofitable drug that ultimately wiped out a debilitating disease in Africa; how flight director Eugene Kranz worked calmly and efficiently to return the endangered Apollo 13 astronauts safely back to Earth; and a look at Arlene Blum's pioneering all-woman ascent of the 26,545-foot Himalayan peak Annapurna in 1978.

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Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive -Harvey B. Mackay This is a great book, whether you're an MBA or just someone trying to get an advantage in everyday life. Harvey Mackay's lessons are to be treasured--he was way ahead of the curve in the mid-1980s. It may be hard to appreciate this today because some of the advice isn't fresh anymore: we all have phones in our cars and we all use answering machines to screen calls and we all take notes on the run on little portable recorders. --Well, many of us do, at any rate. Hardly revolutionary advice anymore, but that's only because we listened to Harvey in the first place. Some of the chapters contain gold that will always be valuable, however. One of my favorites involves the phrase "Dusseldorf passes." I won't spoil it for the unread, but I will say the lesson from that chapter is one everyone should take with them through life. It will save you a lot of money and regret. And the Mackay hiring process. So thorough it seems to border on the obsurd, but the more I work at various companies the more I wish all businesses were as picky about acquiring workers. Harvey shows you that even "lowly" positions such as the receptionist or secretary are among your company's most critical, for 99% of your customers will get their first impression of your company-and in some cases the *only* impression of your company-through this crucial individual. Yet many companies get some 18-year-old part-timer to answer the phones and file valuable company documents--*and they're proud of this cost-cutting maneuver!* They consider this smart management. Harvey explains why this is actually a very dumb move. He also shows you how to get "impossible" tickets to the big game and how to get a reservation at virtually any hotel, even ones that are "completely booked." And no, these are not devious ways. They're just common sense, actually. Whether you're an ambitious manager at a Fortune 500 company or an owner of a small businesses on the corner, this book has nuggets. So grab it. And then read the other books Harvey Mackay has written. While they didn't have the freshness or the impact of this first one (is that possible?) they are still well worth your time.

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