Reliance Industries Limited: CSR spending FY 2021-22 to 2025-26
Reliance Industries Limited spent ₹4,989 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 2021-22
In FY 2021-22 Reliance Industries Limited spent ₹813 crore on CSR against a 2% obligation of ₹737 crore; the largest area was healthcare (₹475 crore).
Period: Apr 2021 - Mar 2022.
- Obligation (2% rule): ₹737 crore
- Spent in the year: ₹813 crore (projects ₹813 crore, admin overheads ₹0 crore, impact assessment ₹0.5 crore)
- Set aside for ongoing projects (Unspent CSR Account): ₹0 crore
- Transferred to a Schedule VII fund: ₹0 crore
- Excess from earlier years set off against this year's obligation: ₹0 crore
- Environment spend: not disclosed
Spending by area
| Area | Amount |
|---|---|
| Health incl. COVID-19 (i) | ₹475 crore |
| Education (ii) | ₹202 crore |
| Rural Transformation - rural development (x) | ₹101 crore |
| Sports for Development - promoting sports (vii) | ₹27 crore |
| Disaster Response incl. COVID-19 (xii) | ₹4 crore |
| Arts, Culture, Heritage and Urban Renewal (v) | ₹4 crore |
Main programmes
- COVID-19 Mission Covid Suraksha: 331 cr in total (109 cr in Gujarat and Maharashtra [Jamnagar, Mumbai], 222 cr across many states), via RIL directly and Reliance Foundation
- Promoting Institution of Eminence - Jio Institute, Raigad (Maharashtra): 142 cr (ongoing project, 15 years), via Reliance Foundation Institution of Education and Research
- Preventive and public healthcare initiatives, Mumbai (Maharashtra): 114 cr via Reliance Foundation; medical relief 7 cr; Drishti corneal transplants 2 cr
- Sustainable Livelihoods Programme: 40 cr across many states; rural infrastructure and rural development 13 cr; drinking water and rural development at manufacturing sites 7 cr
- Reliance Foundation Schools 25 cr (13 cr via RF plus 12 cr direct in Raigad); scholarships and education support 9 cr
- Grassroot sports: 22 cr to Reliance Foundation Youth Sports (Mumbai, Odisha [Khordha]); other sports 5 cr
- Health outreach: 12 mobile medical units, over 2.4 lakh consultations across Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh; 10 KL oxygen plant at Kakinada (Andhra Pradesh) government hospital
- Rural Transformation: 121 lakh m3 water harvesting capacity created, about 5,600 ha assured irrigation, 364 villages with better drinking water access
Trees and greening
- Rural agroforestry: 20,000+ saplings planted on private and common lands and 109 orchards established (Reliance Foundation, Rural Transformation)
- Company greenbelts of 2,600+ ha; 6 lakh+ saplings planted in FY22 and 70 ha greenbelt added, 2.3 crore cumulative (operations disclosure, not stated as CSR spend)
- Promoting Sustainable Environment, Arts and Culture project: 4 cr in Mumbai
States: Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Goa, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Puducherry, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal.
Implementing agencies: Reliance Foundation (494 cr, CSR00000623), Reliance Foundation Institution of Education and Research (142 cr, CSR00000624), Reliance Foundation Youth Sports (22 cr, CSR00000365).
Source: S5 RIL Integrated Annual Report 2021-22 - Annexure II (project table with amounts), CSR note, pages printed 276-281 (Annexure II), 204-207 (CSR programmes), 348-349 (note); PDF spread 104-105, 140-142, 176
Sources: RIL Integrated Annual Report 2025-26 - Board's Report CSR section, Annexure III, Standalone note 31.2 – Reliance Industries Limited; RIL Integrated Annual Report 2024-25 - Annexure III, Standalone note 30.2 (FY25 and FY24 comparatives) – Reliance Industries Limited; RIL Integrated Annual Report 2023-24 - Annexure III, Standalone note 31.2 (FY24 and restated FY23) – Reliance Industries Limited; RIL Integrated Annual Report 2022-23 - Annexure II, CSR note, Social and Relationship Capital – Reliance Industries Limited; RIL Integrated Annual Report 2021-22 - Annexure II (project table with amounts), CSR note – Reliance Industries Limited; RIL - CSR projects approved by the Board for FY 2025-26 – Reliance Industries Limited; RIL - CSR projects approved by the Board for FY 2023-24 – Reliance Industries Limited; RIL - CSR projects approved by the Board for FY 2022-23 – Reliance Industries Limited; RIL Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report 2025-26 - Principle 8, CSR in aspirational districts – Reliance Industries Limited
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