FY 2022-23

In FY 2022-23 UltraTech Cement Limited spent ₹115.99 crore on CSR against a 2% obligation of ₹115.99 crore.

Period: Apr 2022 - Mar 2023.

• Obligation (2% rule): ₹115.99 crore
• Spent in the year: ₹115.99 crore (projects ₹110.87 crore, admin overheads ₹4.96 crore, impact assessment ₹0.16 crore)
• Set aside for ongoing projects (Unspent CSR Account): ₹0 crore
• Transferred to a Schedule VII fund: ₹0 crore
• Excess carried forward to set off in later years (balance at year end): ₹21.76 crore
• Environment spend: not disclosed

Main programmes

• CSR obligation Rs 134.59 cr less Rs 18.60 cr set off; full Rs 115.99 cr spent (programme amounts not disclosed)
• Reports CSR in 507 villages across 16 states
• Education: 8,200+ girls reached on enrolment and learning; 7 school buildings improved (Shambhupura, Balaji, Dhar, Neemuch); Navodaya coaching centres at Kharia, Rawan, Hirmi (353 children)
• Health: 5 lakh+ people reached; 154,312 patients through mobile health camps; 23 ambulances; 14 hospitals and dispensaries
• Livelihoods: 55,211 cattle immunised, 2,490 artificially inseminated; 183 check dams and 75 rainwater harvesting structures cumulative; Go-Char Krishna with BAIF at Vikram Cement
• Watershed management with NABARD: earthen bunds on 95 ha and 100 waste weirs for 70 farmers
• Skills: 2,278 youth supported in vocational trades; 46 women trained in industrial garment making at Baikunth (19 placed); 39 RO plants in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra
• Infrastructure: 5,28,108 people benefited from village infrastructure programmes

Trees and greening

• Company-wide saplings planted at operational sites: 3,71,799 (survival 84.87%); not stated as CSR-funded
• Watershed project: 2,660 saplings distributed for plantation and kitchen gardens

States: Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal.

Implementing agencies: BAIF Development Research Foundation, NABARD, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Department of MSME (Neemuch), Aditya Birla Centre for Community Initiatives and Rural Development (programme umbrella).

Source: S4 Integrated and Sustainability Report 2022-23, pages CSR annexure PDF 147-149; narrative PDF 105-106, 201-202