FY 2024-25

In FY 2024-25 Power Grid Corporation of India Limited spent ₹360.19 crore on CSR against a 2% obligation of ₹349.45 crore.

Period: Apr 2024 - Mar 2025.

• Obligation (2% rule): ₹349.45 crore
• Spent in the year: ₹360.19 crore (projects ₹345.36 crore, admin overheads ₹14.51 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): ₹10.74 crore
• Environment spend: ₹3 crore

Spending by area

Area	Amount
Eradicating hunger and poverty, health care and sanitation (i)	₹235.32 crore
Education, employment and livelihood (ii)	₹51.08 crore
Gender equality, women empowerment (iii)	₹0.95 crore
Environmental sustainability, ecological balance (iv)	₹3 crore
National heritage, art and culture (v)	₹0.09 crore
Incubators / R&D / public funded universities (ix)	₹20.73 crore
Rural development (x)	₹34.45 crore
Disaster management (xii)	₹0.1 crore
Administrative overheads	₹14.48 crore

Main programmes

• POWERGRID Centre of Excellence at IIT Roorkee (Rs 20.73 crore)
• Vishram Sadan completed at RIMS, Ranchi, Jharkhand; others under construction at Jhansi, Berhampur (Odisha), AIIMS Bilaspur (HP)
• Sanctioned 500-bed Vishram Sadan at AIIMS Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh
• Medical equipment for 100 PHCs pan-India and 7 GMERS medical colleges, Gujarat
• Surgical robotic system at King George's Medical University, Lucknow; Tele-ICU at SGPGIMS, Lucknow
• 128-slice CT scanner at MRTB Hospital, Indore
• Skill training for unemployed youths in transmission line tower erection and stringing (Banka, Malda, Bassi-Jaipur)
• Engagement of interns under PM Internship Scheme; 232 projects worth about Rs 858 crore approved

Trees and greening

• Plantation under MoEFCC Green Credit Programme listed as CSR project in progress (amount and tree count not given)
• Separately, Rs 19.71 crore contributed for eco-restoration of 278.76 ha degraded forest land in Gujarat under Green Credit Programme (reported under environment and social section, not stated as CSR spend)

States: Jharkhand, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, West Bengal, Haryana, Maharashtra.

Implementing agencies: IIT Roorkee.

Source: S2 Annual Report 2024-25, pages pdf 88-90, 141-143, 152-154 (Directors report CSR, Annexure, Note)