FY 2025-26

In FY 2025-26 Ambuja Cements spent ₹54.93 crore on CSR against a 2% obligation of ₹53.89 crore; the largest area was skills and livelihoods (₹29.11 crore).

Period: Apr 2025 - Mar 2026.

• Obligation (2% rule): ₹53.89 crore
• Spent in the year: ₹54.93 crore (projects ₹53.97 crore, admin overheads ₹0.96 crore, impact assessment ₹0 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): ₹0 crore
• Environment spend: not disclosed

Spending by area

Area	Amount
Sustainable livelihood - healthcare and others (company head, CSR expense claimed)	₹29.11 crore
Education (company head)	₹23.79 crore
Project planning, design and research (company head)	₹5.28 crore
Social Inclusion (company head)	₹2.88 crore
Administrative overheads	₹0.96 crore

Main programmes

• Water resource management: 242 rooftop rainwater harvesting systems, 33 check dams, 54 ponds revived, 85 drinking water structures, 1,069 farm ponds; 1,960 ha under micro-irrigation
• Marwar Mundwa, Rajasthan: over 3,400 household rooftop rainwater systems in 11 villages, 47 community systems, 140 ponds revived/deepened
• Agro-based livelihoods: 56,639 MT biomass supplied via 4 farmer producer companies; 17,885 soil samples tested; 86.09 ha under solar pump irrigation; 16 FPOs with 9,261 shareholders
• Himachal Pradesh watershed project with NABARD support and Uttarakhand Bhu Amrit FPO (630 organic farmers) cited
• Skill and entrepreneurship: 14 Skill and Entrepreneurship Development Institutes; 6,621 youth trained (as reported)
• 784 animal health camps treating 93,776 animals
• CSR of 1.19 crore in aspirational district Haridwar, Uttarakhand (BRSR)
• Impact assessments/SROI reported for rural infrastructure (PwC), Chandrapur integrated development, and four SEDIs (CRISIL); no impact-assessment spend shown

Trees and greening

• 3,93,000+ saplings planted across all locations
• Oxygen park at Bhendavi, Chandrapur gram panchayat: 3,600 saplings (cumulative with earlier year)
• World Environment Day tree plantations across locations

States: Rajasthan, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand.

Implementing agencies: Ambuja Cement Foundation (41.00 cr), Adani Foundation (11.04 cr), Ambuja Hospital Trust (1.93 cr).

Source: S1 Integrated Annual Report 2025-26 (NSE filing), pages PDF pp 95-99, 141 (CSR narrative); 154 (CSR annexure); 377 (CSR note); BRSR: https://nsearchives.nseindia.com/corporate/AMBUJACEM\_30052026183805\_ACL\_BRSR\_30052026.pdf p 52