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 2022-23
In FY 2022-23 Reliance Industries Limited spent ₹744 crore on CSR against a 2% obligation of ₹739 crore; the largest area was healthcare (₹282 crore).
Period: Apr 2022 - Mar 2023.
- Obligation (2% rule): ₹739 crore
- Spent in the year: ₹744 crore (projects ₹744 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: ₹32 crore
Spending by area
| Area | Amount |
|---|---|
| Healthcare incl. COVID-19 (i) | ₹282 crore |
| Education (ii) | ₹281 crore |
| Rural Transformation - rural development (x) | ₹73 crore |
| Sports for Development - promoting sports (vii) | ₹56 crore |
| Environment, Ecology and Animal Welfare - environment sustainability (iv) | ₹32 crore |
| Others incl. Disaster Management, Women Empowerment, Arts and Culture (xii, iii, v - mixed) | ₹20 crore |
Main programmes
- Health and COVID-19: 282 cr; health outreach reached 138,000 people with over 5.8 lakh consultations, of which mobile medical units gave 2.88 lakh
- Drishti vision programme: 11,000 consultations, 545 cataract procedures and 767 corneal transplants facilitated
- Education: 281 cr; 207 cr to Reliance Foundation Institution of Education and Research (Jio Institute, Ulwe, Navi Mumbai); 14 Reliance Foundation schools with over 14,500 students
- Dhirubhai Ambani Scholarship and Reliance Foundation Scholarships: commitment of 50,000 scholarships over ten years announced; up to 5,000 undergraduate (2 lakh each) and 100 postgraduate (6 lakh each) awards for 2022-23
- Rural Transformation in 16 states and 2 Union Territories reached over 2.7 million people
- Reliance Nutrition Gardens: over 20,500 established in 25 districts of 8 states
- Akshaya Patra central kitchen, Jamnagar (Gujarat) for the mid-day meal programme, set up by Reliance Foundation (impact-assessed)
- Grants and sites impact-assessed: Paani Foundation Samruddha Gaon Spardha (Maharashtra), Friendicoes (Delhi NCR), Wildlife SOS, Silvassa and Nagothane plant-site programmes
Trees and greening
- Paani Foundation Samruddha Gaon Spardha (Maharashtra) assessment: plantation of over 5.3 lakh saplings reported by 30 villages, 1,041 ha protected grassland in 17 villages (programme-level finding, not an FY23 count)
- Company greenbelts of 6,500+ ha; over 2 lakh saplings planted in FY23, 2.4 crore cumulative (operations disclosure)
States: Maharashtra, Gujarat, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Delhi.
Implementing agencies: Reliance Foundation (397 cr), Reliance Foundation Institution of Education and Research (207 cr), Reliance Foundation Youth Sports (34 cr), Jamnaben Hirachand Ambani Foundation (15 cr), Hirachand Govardhandas Ambani Public Charitable Trust (3 cr).
Source: S4 RIL Integrated Annual Report 2022-23 - Annexure II, CSR note, Social and Relationship Capital, pages printed 212-215 (CSR programmes), 288-289 (Annexure II); PDF spread 108-109, 146-149, 185
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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