Sesa Goa Limited (‘Sesa Goa’ or the ‘Company’) has today allotted equity shares to the Shareholders of Sterlite Industries (India) Limited (‘Sterlite’), The Madras Aluminium Company Limited (‘MALCO’) and Ekaterina Limited (‘Ekaterina’) pursuant to the Schemes of Amalgamation and Arrangement as under:

1. To the Shareholders of Sterlite: 194,45,43,741 (One Hundred Ninety Four crores Forty Five lacs Forty Three Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty One) equity Shares of Re. 1/- fully paid up, 3 Sesa Goa shares being issued for every 5 existing Sterlite shares;
2. To the Shareholders of MALCO: 7,87,24,989 (Seven crores Eighty Seven Lacs Twenty Four Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighty Nine) of Re. 1/- each fully paid up, 7 Sesa Goa shares being issued for every 10 existing MALCO shares;
3. To the Shareholders of Ekaterina: 7,23,04,334 (Seven crores Twenty Three Lacs Four Thousand Three Hundred and Thirty Four) of Re. 1/- each fully paid up, 1 Sesa Goa shares being issued for every 25 existing Ekaterina shares.

Consequent to the aforesaid allotments, the paid up equity share capital of the Company stands increased from Rs. 869,101,423 to Rs. 2,964,674,487.

Sesa Goa will apply to the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange in India (together, the "Indian Stock Exchanges") for listing approval for the new Sesa Goa shares and expects to receive the final listing approval within three to four business days. Thereafter, Sesa Goa will apply to the Indian Stock Exchanges for trading approval for the new Sesa Goa shares and expects to receive the trading approval within a further two to three business days. The new Sesa Goa shares are expected to begin trading on the Indian Stock Exchanges on the next business day in India after trading approval is received.

About Sesa

Sesa is India’s leading producer and exporter of iron ore in the private sector with operations in the states of Goa and Karnataka in India and a large integrated project site in Liberia, West Africa. Founded in 1954, for about 6 decades, Sesa has been involved in iron ore exploration, mining, beneficiation and exports. Sesa is a part of Vedanta Resources plc, the London-listed FTSE 100 diversified metals and mining major. Sesa also manufactures pig iron and metallurgical coke, with a 0.56 mtpa metallurgical coke plant and a 0.625 mtpa pig iron plant in Goa, and associated two power plants of 30 MW each.

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