Ambuja Cements Limited: CSR spending FY 2021-22 to 2025-26
Ambuja Cements Limited spent ₹306.12 crore on CSR from FY 2021-22 to 2025-26 (63 months; standalone company, from its annual reports), shown year by year with the money set aside for ongoing projects.
FY 2024-25
In FY 2024-25 Ambuja Cements spent ₹50.27 crore on CSR against a 2% obligation of ₹50.27 crore; the largest area was skills and livelihoods (₹31.01 crore).
Period: Apr 2024 - Mar 2025.
- Obligation (2% rule): ₹50.27 crore
- Spent in the year: ₹50.27 crore (projects ₹48.61 crore, admin overheads ₹1.66 crore, impact assessment ₹0 crore)
- Set aside for ongoing projects (Unspent CSR Account): ₹0 crore
- Transferred to a Schedule VII fund: ₹0 crore
- Excess carried forward to set off in later years (balance at year end): ₹7.09 crore
- Environment spend: not disclosed
Spending by area
| Area | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sustainable livelihood - healthcare and others (company head, CSR expense claimed) | ₹31.01 crore |
| Education (company head) | ₹12.86 crore |
| Project planning, design and research (company head) | ₹5.14 crore |
| Social Inclusion (company head) | ₹4.48 crore |
| Administrative overheads | ₹1.66 crore |
Main programmes
- Water resource management: 462 rooftop rainwater systems, 49 check dams, 121 ponds revived, 152 drinking water structures, 495 farm ponds; 2,869 ha under micro-irrigation
- Rabriyawas, Rajasthan: 60 farm ponds adding 2.89 lakh cubic metres of storage
- Marwar Mundwa, Rajasthan: farmer producer organisation supplied 52,201 MT biomass
- Agro-based livelihoods: 93,383 MT biomass via 4 FPCs; 11,636 soil samples tested; 16 FPOs with 9,261 shareholders
- Skill: 7,770 youth trained at 15 Skill and Entrepreneurship Development Institutes across 10 states; 76% placement
- 918 animal health camps treating 89,163 animals
- 35 participatory groundwater management committees formed under a water literacy campaign
- Impact assessments/SROI: livelihood initiatives at Marwar (PwC) and water/infrastructure at Baloda Bazar, Bhatapara (Crisil)
Trees and greening
- 8,56,274 saplings planted across all locations
- Oxygen park at Bhendavi, Chandrapur: 3,600 saplings
- World Environment Day tree plantations across locations
States: Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh.
Implementing agencies: Ambuja Cement Foundation (46.80 cr), Ambuja Vidya Niketan Trust (0.81 cr), Ambuja Hospital Trust (2.66 cr).
Source: S2 Integrated Annual Report 2024-25 (NSE filing), pages PDF pp 73-75, 122-123 (CSR annexure), 209 (CSR note)
Sources: Integrated Annual Report 2025-26 (NSE filing) – Ambuja Cements Limited; Integrated Annual Report 2024-25 (NSE filing) – Ambuja Cements Limited; Integrated Annual Report 2023-24 (NSE filing) – Ambuja Cements Limited; Integrated Annual Report 2022-23 (15 months to 31 Mar 2023): Board report and financial statements – Ambuja Cements Limited; Integrated Annual Report 2021 (year ended 31 Dec 2021): Directors Report, Annexure I – Ambuja Cements Limited
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