Power Grid Corporation of India Limited: CSR spending FY 2021-22 to 2025-26
Power Grid Corporation of India Limited spent ₹1,674.63 crore on CSR from FY 2021-22 to 2025-26 (standalone company, from its annual reports), shown year by year with the money set aside for ongoing projects.
FY 2022-23
In FY 2022-23 Power Grid Corporation of India Limited spent ₹321.66 crore on CSR against a 2% obligation of ₹311.97 crore.
Period: Apr 2022 - Mar 2023.
- Obligation (2% rule): ₹311.97 crore
- Spent in the year: ₹321.66 crore (projects ₹310.51 crore, admin overheads ₹10.83 crore, impact assessment ₹0.32 crore)
- Set aside for ongoing projects (Unspent CSR Account): ₹0 crore
- Transferred to a Schedule VII fund: ₹0 crore
- Spent above this year's obligation (money set aside counts as spent): ₹9.69 crore
- Environment spend: ₹10.73 crore
Spending by area
| Area | Amount |
|---|---|
| Education and skill development | ₹56.08 crore |
| Ecology and environment | ₹10.73 crore |
| Health and sanitation | ₹229.43 crore |
| Sports, art and culture | ₹4.27 crore |
| Protection of national heritage, art and culture | ₹0.03 crore |
| Other CSR activities | ₹10.25 crore |
| Own CSR personnel cost | ₹10.87 crore |
Main programmes
- Vishram Sadans completed at DMCH Darbhanga (Bihar), Guwahati Medical College (Assam), SSG Hospital Vadodara (Gujarat)
- Ring gantry Linear Accelerator at Regional Cancer Centre, Thiruvananthapuram
- MRI at Vivekanand Medical Institute, Palampur; 100-bed PICU at GSVM Medical College, Kanpur
- NFCH assistance for education of 1600 violence-affected students
- 50-seat SC senior girls hostel, Sarai, Singrauli; playground at K.B. Women's College, Hazaribagh
- Crematorium upgrade, Gangtok; medical equipment for Sikkim facilities
- POWERGRID endowment merit-cum-means scholarship at IIT Madras
- 168 new projects worth Rs 275.10 crore sanctioned; report text also states Rs 105 crore contribution to PM CARES (not visible in the CSR split)
Trees and greening
- Plantation drives at Naya Raipur, Hariyar, Auraiya; 50,000 saplings at Kokrajhar and 1,000 trees at Gurgaon (sustainability section, not tied to a CSR amount)
- Cumulative about 656,702 trees planted by end FY23 (company-wide)
States: Bihar, Assam, Gujarat, Kerala, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Sikkim, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra.
Implementing agencies: National Foundation for Communal Harmony, IIT Madras.
Source: S4 Annual Report 2022-23, pages pdf 70-71, 174-177, 253-257 (CSR annexure, Note)
Sources: Annual Report 2025-26 – Power Grid Corporation of India Limited; Annual Report 2024-25 – Power Grid Corporation of India Limited; Annual Report 2023-24 – Power Grid Corporation of India Limited; Annual Report 2022-23 – Power Grid Corporation of India Limited; Annual Report 2021-22 – Power Grid Corporation of India Limited
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