REC Limited: CSR spending FY 2021-22 to 2025-26
REC Limited spent ₹1,082.57 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 2024-25
In FY 2024-25 REC Limited spent ₹288.86 crore on CSR against a 2% obligation of ₹288.48 crore; the largest area was healthcare (₹128.78 crore).
Period: Apr 2024 - Mar 2025.
- Obligation (2% rule): ₹288.48 crore
- Spent in the year: ₹288.86 crore (projects ₹279.38 crore, admin overheads ₹9.2 crore, impact assessment ₹0.28 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): ₹5.53 crore
- Environment spend: ₹7 crore
Spending by area
| Area | Amount |
|---|---|
| Health care, sanitation, drinking water (i) | ₹128.78 crore |
| Education, vocational and skill development (ii) | ₹15.88 crore |
| Environmental sustainability (iv) | ₹7 crore |
| Sports (vii) | ₹38.98 crore |
| PM CARES Fund (viii) | ₹50 crore |
| Others: rural development, armed forces welfare, incubators, disaster management (vi, ix, x, xii) | ₹38.74 crore |
Main programmes
- Contribution to PM CARES Fund: Rs 50.00 cr
- Sports: National Sports Development Fund (Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports) for broad-basing of sports: Rs 38.00 cr
- Clean Ganga Fund contributions Rs 35.00 cr (two entries 20.00 and 15.00) and Swachh Bharat Kosh Rs 31.00 cr (10.00 and 21.00), booked as Government of India contributions; Armed Forces Flag Day Fund Rs 20.00 cr
- Healing Little Hearts (congenital heart disease surgeries for children, Chhattisgarh/Haryana/Maharashtra) with Sri Sathya Sai Health and Education Trust: Rs 4.50 cr and Rs 14.49 cr (HLH 2.0)
- Linear accelerator for trauma centre, Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh: Rs 11.20 cr
- REC waiting lounge at AIIMS New Delhi: Rs 5.81 cr; Kedarnath hospital and development works, Uttarakhand: Rs 4.55 cr
- Mobile Medical Units: 4 in Chhattisgarh, 4 in Punjab, 7 in Tamil Nadu, 5 in Uttarakhand; 10 mobile health clinics in Bhojpur, Bihar
- Rehabilitation aids for 8,000 disabled persons (Rs 2.95 cr); 500 toilet blocks for BSF troops in Punjab (Rs 2.25 cr)
Trees and greening
- Procurement for plantation of 54 plants/trees by REC offices at state power utilities and urban parks, PAN India (REC Foundation, direct): about Rs 0.005 cr (Rs 49,518)
- Solar and clean energy: 4 e-buses and 2 charging stations at MANIT Bhopal Rs 4.16 cr; 1,000 solar street lights in Arunachal Pradesh Rs 0.89 cr; 1,650 solar street lights, Nashik Rs 0.38 cr
- Biodiversity and wildlife conservation laboratory and training centre, Kashmir and Ladakh (Atal Incubation Centre-CCMB): Rs 0.23 cr
States: Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Manipur, Telangana, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Gujarat, Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir/Ladakh.
Implementing agencies: REC Foundation, Sri Sathya Sai Health and Education Trust, Government of India (PM CARES, Clean Ganga, Swachh Bharat Kosh), National Sports Development Fund, Kendriya Sainik Board/Armed Forces Flag Day Fund, Sevarth Sansthan Trauma and Physiotherapy Dharmarth Samiti, AIIMS New Delhi, Shri Kedarnath Utthan Charitable Trust, Indian Red Cross Society (state branches), Border Security Force.
Source: S2 REC Limited Annual Report 2024-25 (56th), pages Annexure-VII CSR report pdf pp.192-206; note 41.3 pdf p.282
Sources: REC Limited Annual Report 2025-26 (57th) – REC Limited; REC Limited Annual Report 2024-25 (56th) – REC Limited; REC Limited Annual Report 2023-24 (55th) – REC Limited; REC Limited Annual Report 2022-23 (54th) – REC Limited; REC Limited Annual Report 2021-22 (53rd) – REC Limited
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