FY 2025-26

In FY 2025-26 Power Grid Corporation of India Limited spent ₹391.16 crore on CSR against a 2% obligation of ₹340.07 crore.

Period: Apr 2025 - Mar 2026.

• Obligation (2% rule): ₹340.07 crore
• Spent in the year: ₹391.16 crore (projects ₹384.56 crore, admin overheads ₹5.81 crore, impact assessment ₹0.79 crore)
• Set aside for ongoing projects (Unspent CSR Account): ₹0 crore
• Transferred to a Schedule VII fund: ₹0 crore
• Spent above this year's obligation (money set aside counts as spent): ₹51.09 crore
• Environment spend: ₹43.38 crore

Spending by area

Area	Amount
Eradicating hunger and poverty, health care and sanitation (i)	₹240.83 crore
Education, employment and livelihood (ii)	₹69.77 crore
Gender equality, women empowerment (iii)	₹0.35 crore
Environmental sustainability, ecological balance (iv)	₹43.38 crore
National heritage, art and culture (v)	₹0.2 crore
Rural sports (vii)	₹0.02 crore
Incubators / R&D / public funded universities (ix)	₹1.73 crore
Rural development (x)	₹26.3 crore
Disaster management (xii)	₹1.98 crore
Administrative overheads (incl. impact assessment)	₹6.6 crore

Main programmes

• Foundation stone laid for 500-bed Vishram Sadan at AIIMS Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh (Rs 44.49 crore)
• Linear Accelerator provided to Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Visakhapatnam
• Linear Accelerator provided to Mahamana Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya Cancer Centre, Varanasi
• 1.5 Tesla MRI and equipment to Maharshi Vishwamitra Medical College, Ghazipur
• 128-slice CT scan to Gandhi Nagar Hospital, Jammu
• Medical equipment to Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital, Tiruchirappalli
• POWERGRID Vidyalakshmi merit-cum-means scholarship expanded to IITs, NITs and government-funded engineering colleges
• 122 new CSR projects worth Rs 211 crore approved; Rs 235.07 crore spent on DPE themes (Health and Nutrition, PM Internship Scheme)

Trees and greening

• Environmental sustainability spend Rs 43.38 crore (Schedule VII item iv); the report does not itemise the projects in the pages reviewed

States: Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Tamil Nadu.

Source: S1 Annual Report 2025-26, pages pdf 57-58, 84, 171-173, 211 (Annexure IX, Note 53)