Tata Steel has been ranked first in the Dow Jones sustainability index 2018, making it the only domestic company to emerge as a winner among all 60 sectors evaluated for the ranking. This is the second year in the past three that Tata Steel has been adjudged industry leader among 24 steel companies globally, the company said in a notice to the bourses on Friday.

Launched in 1999, the Dow Jones sustainability index is the gold standard for corporate sustainability and is the first global index to track leading sustainability-driven companies based on analysis of financially-material environmental, social, and governance factors. Shares of Tata Steel closed at ₹615, up 1.56 per cent, on the NSE.