CATERING TO THE DEMAND

The alumina-making cost to $308 a tonne in Q3, down from $358 a tonne in Q2

Vedanta has a long-term linkage arrangement with OMC to source 70% of the extracted bauxite at the latter's Kodingamali mines

In Q1 FY19, it got 8% of its bauxite requirement from the OMC mine, which went up to 17% in Q2 and 40% in Q3

As opposed to Q1 and

Q2, when the company fulfilled 49 per cent of its need from coal linkage, the figure sharply rose to 72 per cent in Q3