FY 2025-26

In FY 2025-26 Steel Authority of India spent ₹32.82 crore on CSR against a 2% obligation of ₹53.11 crore, and set aside ₹20.56 crore for ongoing projects.

Period: Apr 2025 - Mar 2026.

• Obligation (2% rule): ₹53.11 crore
• Spent in the year: ₹32.82 crore (projects ₹32.03 crore, admin overheads ₹0.79 crore)
• Set aside for ongoing projects (Unspent CSR Account): ₹20.56 crore
• Transferred to a Schedule VII fund: not disclosed
• Excess from earlier years set off against this year's obligation: ₹0.46 crore
• Environment spend: ₹1.68 crore

Spending by area

Area	Amount
Education	₹18.98 crore
Healthcare	₹12.94 crore
Livelihood Generation	₹6.28 crore
Women Empowerment	₹1.7 crore
Drinking Water	₹0.72 crore
Sanitation	₹0.38 crore
Sports	₹2.82 crore
Art & Culture	₹0.92 crore
Rural Development	₹1.74 crore
Social Security	₹3.94 crore
Environment Sustainability (iv)	₹1.68 crore
Project Identification and Monitoring	₹0.12 crore
Capacity Building of Personnel	₹1.17 crore

Main programmes

• Healthcare: 5 Mobile Medical Units reached about 1.40 lakh villagers; 24 primary health centres treated over 1,43,000 patients free
• Education: support to 77 schools (over 40,000 children) in steel townships; 22 special schools (Kalyan, Mukul, DAV) with about 23,000 BPL students; about 600 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 1,260 youths and 2,375 women in peripheral villages; about 492 youths sponsored for ITI training (Bolani, Bargaon, Baliapur, Rourkela, Bokaro)
• Aspirational Districts: Rs 16.45 crore (30.97% of obligation) in Kanker, Narayanpur, Rajnandgaon (Chhattisgarh) and Bokaro, West Singhbhum, Ranchi (Jharkhand)
• Health and nutrition theme projects: Rs 29.35 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 1.68 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: S1 SAIL Annual Report 2025-26, pages pdf p45-49 (Board report CSR), p135-136 (note 49.6), p402-403 (Annexure XII)