FY 2025-26

In FY 2025-26 NHPC Limited spent ₹113.91 crore on CSR against a 2% obligation of ₹78.01 crore.

Period: Apr 2025 - Mar 2026.

• Obligation (2% rule): ₹78.01 crore
• Spent in the year: ₹113.91 crore (projects ₹108.73 crore, admin overheads ₹5 crore, impact assessment ₹0.18 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): ₹63.24 crore
• Environment spend: not disclosed

Main programmes

• Annual plan approved Rs 193.13 cr (incl. carry-over projects); largest items: Transforming Varanasi District Library (Rs 10.00 cr planned), Government Girls Inter College Siddharthnagar UP (Rs 4.43 cr planned)
• Expenditure on Kendriya Vidyalaya/other schools for outsiders at power stations, Rs 2.1 to 4.9 cr planned per location across ~14 locations
• Cultural Heritage Centre at Thalwal, Jammu (Rs 2.55 cr planned); Engineering College at Takdah, Darjeeling WB (Rs 2.00 cr planned)
• Installation of 100 intelligent teaching consoles in government schools in Dibang (Arunachal) and Leh (Rs 2.75 cr planned)
• Yatri Niwas at Purnagiri Temple, Champawat, Uttarakhand (Rs 2.61 cr planned); Civic Amenity Building at Badrinath/Kedarnath (Rs 2.19 cr planned)
• Medical equipment for Autonomous State Medical College Siddharthnagar UP (Rs 2.50 cr planned); Shiksha Rath 7.0 for seven LoC border villages in Ladakh
• Construction of Government Middle School in Chamba, Himachal Pradesh; Adarsh Gaon development at Jalandora, Gurez, Bandipora (Rs 2.14 cr planned)
• 88 capital assets created with CSR money, total Rs 32.99 cr (Annexure-B)

Trees and greening

• Ecological restoration of Sale Lake, Sale village, Raigad, Maharashtra (Rs 49.94 lakh planned)
• Two vehicles for wildlife protection/forest conservation, Nandhaur Wildlife Sanctuary, Uttarakhand (Rs 27.5 lakh planned)
• 50 solar RO water coolers in schools/colleges, Raigad and Pune (Rs 1.71 cr planned); solar street light and high-mast installations in UP, Bihar, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand

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

Implementing agencies: Central University of Jammu (CUJ Site Council) - impact assessment.

Source: S1 NHPC Annual Report 2025-26 (Annexure-I CSR report), pages pdf 79-82, 114-117, 237-246