FY 2025-26

In FY 2025-26 Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Company Limited spent ₹91.19 crore on CSR against a 2% obligation of ₹91.14 crore.

Period: Apr 2025 - Mar 2026.

• Obligation (2% rule): ₹91.14 crore
• Spent in the year: ₹91.19 crore (projects ₹88.53 crore, admin overheads ₹1.75 crore, impact assessment ₹0.91 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): ₹0.05 crore
• Environment spend: not disclosed

Main programmes

• Project Raahi truckers eye health: 1,49,715 screenings, 76,583 spectacles, 21,585 cataract surgeries, 3,805 diabetic retinopathy screenings
• Mamtva maternal health centres (Haryana, Chandigarh, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Maharashtra): 416 mothers supported
• Gift of Life: 105 children cardiac surgery and 108 children cancer treatment (Haryana, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Telangana, Tamil Nadu)
• Scholarships for 6,923 students across 8 states; school infrastructure in Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Karnataka
• Sports: facilities for 1,089 young athletes in Chennai; Chola Chess (233 players); inclusive sports for para-athletes
• Regenerative agriculture and FPOs: 34,679 farmers across 62 districts (Project Annadata)
• Housing for 13 Adhiyan families in Tiruvannamalai; 65 toilets in Tamil Nadu and Odisha; vocational training for 2,657 tribal children in Maharashtra
• Heritage conservation with ASI at Kailasanathar Temple (Kancheepuram) and Airavateswara Temple (Darasuram); report cites 104 CSR projects

Trees and greening

• 12 lakes rejuvenated covering 116 acres (Project Nanneer, Erode and Sivagangai)
• Forest restoration and carbon sequestration research in Spiti, Kinnaur and Hassan; human-elephant co-existence in Valparai and Sakleshpur; marine/reef studies in Lakshadweep and Andaman. No tree count disclosed

States: Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Bihar, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Odisha, West Bengal, Uttarakhand, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Himachal Pradesh, Lakshadweep, Andaman and Nicobar.

Implementing agencies: Chola Foundation, AMM Foundation, Isha Foundation, Archaeological Survey of India (partner), Roja Muthiah Research Library.

Source: S1 Annual Report 2025-26, Board report Annexure-II CSR Report, pages 61-70