FY 2024-25

In FY 2024-25 Steel Authority of India spent ₹86.31 crore on CSR against a 2% obligation of ₹137.63 crore, and set aside ₹51.78 crore for ongoing projects.

Period: Apr 2024 - Mar 2025.

• Obligation (2% rule): ₹137.63 crore
• Spent in the year: ₹86.31 crore (projects ₹84.7 crore, admin overheads ₹1.61 crore)
• Set aside for ongoing projects (Unspent CSR Account): ₹51.78 crore
• Transferred to a Schedule VII fund: ₹0.59 crore
• Excess from earlier years set off against this year's obligation: ₹3.18 crore
• Environment spend: ₹6.69 crore

Spending by area

Area	Amount
Education	₹49.55 crore
Healthcare	₹22.37 crore
Livelihood Generation	₹16.5 crore
Women Empowerment	₹2.77 crore
Drinking Water	₹1.97 crore
Sanitation	₹2.02 crore
Sports	₹9.92 crore
Art & Culture	₹3.42 crore
Rural Development	₹7.76 crore
Social Security	₹12.71 crore
Environment Sustainability (iv)	₹6.69 crore
Project Identification and Monitoring	₹0.79 crore
Capacity Building of Personnel	₹1.61 crore

Main programmes

• Healthcare: 5 Mobile Medical Units reached about 2 lakh villagers; 24 primary health centres treated over 90,000 patients free
• Education: support to 77 schools (over 40,000 children) in steel townships; 22 special schools (Kalyan, Mukul, DAV) with about 12,000 BPL students; about 450 tribal and naxal-affected children in residential schooling (Saranda Suvan Chhatravas Kiriburu, Gyanodaya Chhatravas, Gyanjyoti Bokaro)
• Mid-day meals and dry ration kits with Akshaya Patra Foundation for about 60,000 students in over 600 government schools, Bhilai and Rourkela
• Skill training for about 1,600 youths and 2,400 women; about 474 youths sponsored for ITI training
• Spend on Education Rs 49.55 crore, Healthcare Rs 22.37 crore, Social Security Rs 12.71 crore, Sports Rs 9.92 crore
• Divyang and senior citizen support: assistive devices via ALIMCO; Home and Hope (Rourkela), Ashalata Kendra (Bokaro), Siyan Sadan (Bhilai), Acharya Dham (Durgapur)
• Residential sports academies: Bokaro (football), Rourkela (hockey), Bhilai and Durgapur (athletics), Kiriburu (archery); Chhattisgarh Lok Kala Mahotsav and Gramin Lokotsav

Trees and greening

• Maintenance of parks, water bodies, botanical gardens and plantation and maintenance of over 5 lakh trees in townships (Rs 6.69 crore on Environment Sustainability)

States: Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal.

Implementing agencies: Akshaya Patra Foundation, Ramakrishna Mission Ashram, Narayanpur, Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India (ALIMCO), SAIL plants/units (direct implementation).

Source: S2 SAIL Annual Report 2024-25, pages pdf p53-54, p390-391 (Annexure XII)