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 2025-26
In FY 2025-26 Ambuja Cements spent ₹54.93 crore on CSR against a 2% obligation of ₹53.89 crore; the largest area was skills and livelihoods (₹29.11 crore).
Period: Apr 2025 - Mar 2026.
- Obligation (2% rule): ₹53.89 crore
- Spent in the year: ₹54.93 crore (projects ₹53.97 crore, admin overheads ₹0.96 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): ₹0 crore
- Environment spend: not disclosed
Spending by area
| Area | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sustainable livelihood - healthcare and others (company head, CSR expense claimed) | ₹29.11 crore |
| Education (company head) | ₹23.79 crore |
| Project planning, design and research (company head) | ₹5.28 crore |
| Social Inclusion (company head) | ₹2.88 crore |
| Administrative overheads | ₹0.96 crore |
Main programmes
- Water resource management: 242 rooftop rainwater harvesting systems, 33 check dams, 54 ponds revived, 85 drinking water structures, 1,069 farm ponds; 1,960 ha under micro-irrigation
- Marwar Mundwa, Rajasthan: over 3,400 household rooftop rainwater systems in 11 villages, 47 community systems, 140 ponds revived/deepened
- Agro-based livelihoods: 56,639 MT biomass supplied via 4 farmer producer companies; 17,885 soil samples tested; 86.09 ha under solar pump irrigation; 16 FPOs with 9,261 shareholders
- Himachal Pradesh watershed project with NABARD support and Uttarakhand Bhu Amrit FPO (630 organic farmers) cited
- Skill and entrepreneurship: 14 Skill and Entrepreneurship Development Institutes; 6,621 youth trained (as reported)
- 784 animal health camps treating 93,776 animals
- CSR of 1.19 crore in aspirational district Haridwar, Uttarakhand (BRSR)
- Impact assessments/SROI reported for rural infrastructure (PwC), Chandrapur integrated development, and four SEDIs (CRISIL); no impact-assessment spend shown
Trees and greening
- 3,93,000+ saplings planted across all locations
- Oxygen park at Bhendavi, Chandrapur gram panchayat: 3,600 saplings (cumulative with earlier year)
- World Environment Day tree plantations across locations
States: Rajasthan, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand.
Implementing agencies: Ambuja Cement Foundation (41.00 cr), Adani Foundation (11.04 cr), Ambuja Hospital Trust (1.93 cr).
Source: S1 Integrated Annual Report 2025-26 (NSE filing), pages PDF pp 95-99, 141 (CSR narrative); 154 (CSR annexure); 377 (CSR note); BRSR: https://nsearchives.nseindia.com/corporate/AMBUJACEM\_30052026183805\_ACL\_BRSR\_30052026.pdf p 52
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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