FY 2021-22

In FY 2021-22 ITC Limited spent ₹351.13 crore on CSR against a 2% obligation of ₹354.27 crore, and set aside ₹3.9 crore for ongoing projects.

Period: Apr 2021 - Mar 2022.

• Obligation (2% rule): ₹354.27 crore
• Spent in the year: ₹351.13 crore (projects ₹333.38 crore, admin overheads ₹17.75 crore, impact assessment ₹0 crore)
• Set aside for ongoing projects (Unspent CSR Account): ₹3.9 crore
• Transferred to a Schedule VII fund: ₹0 crore
• Spent above this year's obligation (money set aside counts as spent): ₹0.76 crore
• Environment spend: ₹58.23 crore

Spending by area

Area	Amount
Healthcare, sanitation and waste (Schedule VII i): health 51.01 + solid waste 15.87 + ongoing Rural Health Care project 1.56	₹68.44 crore
Education, vocational skills, livelihoods (ii): education 24.41, vocational 15.66, livelihood 2.31, animal husbandry 1.35	₹43.73 crore
Women empowerment (iii)	₹7.83 crore
Environment: soil and moisture conservation 55.62 + social forestry 2.61 (iv)	₹58.23 crore
National heritage, art and culture (v)	₹2.3 crore
Research in science, technology, medicine (ix b)	₹3.77 crore
Rural development / improved agriculture practices (x)	₹55.87 crore
Disaster management incl. COVID relief (xii)	₹93.21 crore

Main programmes

• COVID-19 relief and disaster management: Rs 93.21 crore (oxygen: 24 cryogenic ISO containers, 22 oxygen generation units, 1,200 concentrators; 600 hospital beds in 3 states; vaccination drives)
• Health and sanitation: Rs 51.01 crore across 16 states; solid waste management Rs 15.87 crore
• Rural Health Care ongoing project (Saharanpur UP and Munger Bihar), 2 years, allocated Rs 5.46 crore: Rs 1.56 crore spent, Rs 3.90 crore transferred to Unspent CSR Account (28 April 2022)
• Improved agriculture practices (rural development): Rs 55.87 crore across 20 states; sustainable agriculture programme covered 15.2 lakh acres and 4.5 lakh farmers (cumulative)
• Soil and moisture conservation: Rs 55.62 crore; watershed area up over 1 lakh acres (cumulative 13.3 lakh acres), 3,100 water-harvesting structures; demand management on 7.3 lakh acres in 11 states
• Education Rs 24.41 crore; vocational training Rs 15.66 crore; women empowerment Rs 7.83 crore
• Heritage and culture Rs 2.30 crore (ITC Sangeet Research Academy, Kolkata); science and technology research Rs 3.77 crore
• Karnataka Watershed Dept partnership to drought-proof 100 watersheds across 29 districts (over 1.1 million acres): officials trained

Trees and greening

• Social Forestry: over 30,700 acres in year; 19 districts in 9 states; cumulative 4.25 lakh acres, nearly 7,000 villages, over 1.4 lakh households; project spend Rs 2.61 crore (Social plus Farm Forestry cumulative over 9.5 lakh acres); agro-forestry and bund plantations about 1.8 lakh acres cumulative
• Biodiversity conservation (village commons): over 89,000 acres in year; cumulative over 1.3 lakh acres in 29+ districts of 10 states; partnerships with Forest Departments of Maharashtra and Telangana and WPDB Rajasthan (2.5 lakh acres target, 8 districts)

States: Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal.

Implementing agencies: ITC Education and Health Care Trust, ITC Sangeet Research Academy, BAIF Development Research Foundation, Foundation for Ecological Security, DHAN Foundation, Biome Environmental Trust, (Annexure 2 lists over 100 NGOs; sample shown).

Source: S6 ITC Report and Accounts 2022 (full), pages PDF pp 140-142 (narrative), 158-165 (CSR annexure incl. Annexure 1 project amounts p163-164 and Annexure 2 agencies p165), 391-392 (sustainability data)