FY 2025-26

In FY 2025-26 REC Limited spent ₹168.83 crore on CSR against a 2% obligation of ₹338.07 crore, and set aside ₹163.71 crore for ongoing projects.

Period: Apr 2025 - Mar 2026.

• Obligation (2% rule): ₹338.07 crore
• Spent in the year: ₹168.83 crore (projects ₹159.54 crore, admin overheads ₹9.18 crore, impact assessment ₹0.11 crore)
• Set aside for ongoing projects (Unspent CSR Account): ₹163.71 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: ₹4.74 crore

Spending by area

Area	Amount
Health care, sanitation, drinking water (i)	₹88.8 crore
Education, vocational and skill development (ii)	₹26.14 crore
Environmental sustainability (iv)	₹4.74 crore
Sports (vii)	₹2.56 crore
Art and culture (v)	₹2.04 crore
Others: rural development, armed forces welfare, incubators, disaster management (vi, ix, x, xii)	₹35.26 crore

Main programmes

• Armed Forces Flag Day Fund contribution for education grants to children of ex-servicemen/martyrs, via Kendriya Sainik Board, PAN India: Rs 20.00 cr
• Mobile Medical Units (49 units across Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Punjab, Tripura, Jharkhand, Karnataka) via Red Cross branches and others; e.g. 7 units in Tamil Nadu Rs 3.47 cr, 6 units in Gujarat Rs 2.29 cr
• Medtronic cranial robot for robotic surgery wing, IISc Medical School, Bengaluru: Rs 6.00 cr
• 29 public toilet complexes in UP, Karnataka, MP, Maharashtra, Telangana (Sulabh International): Rs 5.69 cr
• 25 community halls in 25 gram panchayats, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh: Rs 5.94 cr
• Cataract surgery for 8,000 beneficiaries, Sankara Eye Hospital, Chennai: Rs 4.49 cr
• Mental health lab equipment, Bhaktivedanta University, Mathura: Rs 4.91 cr; 5,000 phaco surgeries, Barsana: Rs 3.21 cr
• Workshop and classroom building, Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Coimbatore: Rs 4.45 cr; school education transformation, West Sikkim: Rs 3.99 cr

Trees and greening

• No tree plantation project listed in the Annexure-A project table
• Solar and clean-energy projects under environment: 1,000 solar street lights in 5 districts of Arunachal Pradesh Rs 2.11 cr; 1 MW solar plant at Gandhigram Rural Institute, Dindigul Rs 1.45 cr; solar plants and RO systems in Kaziranga National Park Rs 0.54 cr; 11 solar plants in Goa Rs 0.18 cr
• Crop residue management through surface seeding in 4 Punjab districts (Kheti Virasat Mission): Rs 0.26 cr

States: Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Telangana, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Punjab, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Tripura, Odisha, Manipur, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Sikkim, Goa, Delhi, West Bengal.

Implementing agencies: REC Foundation, Kendriya Sainik Board, Indian Red Cross Society (state branches), Sulabh International Social Service Organisation, Indian Institute of Science, Sankara Eye Hospital, ISKCON/Bhaktivedanta, Ramakrishna Mission, Doctors For You, Arunachal Pradesh Energy Development Agency, Gandhigram Rural Institute, Kaziranga Tiger Conservation Foundation, Gujarat Foundation for Entrepreneurial Excellence.

Source: S1 REC Limited Annual Report 2025-26 (57th), pages Annexure-VI Annual Report on CSR, pdf pp.104-111; CSR note 42.3 (standalone)