FY 2024-25

In FY 2024-25 NHPC Limited spent ₹109.64 crore on CSR against a 2% obligation of ₹82.3 crore.

Period: Apr 2024 - Mar 2025.

• Obligation (2% rule): ₹82.3 crore
• Spent in the year: ₹109.64 crore (projects ₹104.39 crore, admin overheads ₹5 crore, impact assessment ₹0.25 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): ₹27.34 crore
• Environment spend: not disclosed

Main programmes

• Annual plan: Transforming Varanasi District Library (Rs 10.00 cr planned)
• Construction of Civic Amenity Building, Badrinath Dham, for Shri Kedarnath Utthan Charitable Trust (Rs 8.45 cr planned)
• Expenditure on Kendriya Vidyalaya/other schools for outsiders at ~14 locations, Rs 1.8 to 4.7 cr planned each
• Engineering College at Takdah, Darjeeling WB (Rs 4.00 cr planned across two entries); Vivekanand Kendra Vidyalaya infrastructure, Assam (Rs 3.68 cr planned)
• Shakti Saadhana: support to weightlifters (Rs 2.38 cr planned); Yatri Niwas at Purnagiri Temple, Champawat (Rs 2.31 cr planned)
• Installation of 500 solar street lights across districts of Uttar Pradesh (Rs 1.06 cr planned); 5 parks with solar trees and LED lights in Ayodhya (Rs 0.48 cr planned)
• Waste-to-resource plant in Kashmir blocks (Rs 0.45 cr planned); Adarsh Gaon Jalandora, Gurez (Rs 0.75 cr planned)

Trees and greening

• Modernization of horticulture nurseries at Khawaja Bagh, Baramulla and Baghe Sundari, Sopore (Rs 20.02 lakh planned; impact assessed by CUJ)
• Solar street lighting in rural UP, Rajasthan, J&K, Ladakh, Himachal, Sikkim (plan items)

States: Uttar Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Haryana, Rajasthan, Bihar.

Implementing agencies: NHPC (direct).

Source: S2 NHPC Annual Report 2024-25, pages pdf 120-131