FY 2023-24

In FY 2023-24 Steel Authority of India spent ₹83.67 crore on CSR against a 2% obligation of ₹158.75 crore, and set aside ₹78.26 crore for ongoing projects.

Period: Apr 2023 - Mar 2024.

• Obligation (2% rule): ₹158.75 crore
• Spent in the year: ₹83.67 crore (projects ₹81.77 crore, admin overheads ₹1.9 crore)
• Set aside for ongoing projects (Unspent CSR Account): ₹78.26 crore
• Transferred to a Schedule VII fund: not disclosed
• Excess from earlier years set off against this year's obligation: ₹4.51 crore
• Environment spend: ₹6.1 crore

Spending by area

Area	Amount
Education	₹43.98 crore
Healthcare	₹26.4 crore
Livelihood Generation	₹13.63 crore
Women Empowerment	₹3.76 crore
Drinking Water	₹2.41 crore
Sanitation	₹2.4 crore
Sports	₹30.69 crore
Art & Culture	₹2.2 crore
Rural Development	₹22.75 crore
Social Security	₹4.72 crore
Environment Sustainability (iv)	₹6.1 crore
Project Identification and Monitoring	₹1.01 crore
Capacity Building of Personnel	₹1.9 crore

Main programmes

• Healthcare: 5 Mobile Medical Units reached about 1.80 lakh villagers; 24 primary health centres treated over 84,000 patients free
• Education: support to 77 schools (over 40,000 children) in steel townships; 22 special schools (Kalyan, Mukul, DAV) with about 12,026 BPL students; about 450 tribal and naxal-affected children in residential schooling (Saranda Suvan Chhatravas Kiriburu, Gyanodaya Chhatravas, Gyanjyoti Bokaro)
• Mid-day meals and dry ration kits with Akshaya Patra Foundation for about 60,000 students in over 600 government schools, Bhilai and Rourkela
• Skill training for 1,578 youths and 2,369 women; about 490 youths sponsored for ITI training
• Rs 11.87 crore spent on construction/acquisition of assets under CSR
• Sports Rs 30.69 crore and Rural Development Rs 22.75 crore among the larger heads
• Board-approved FY 2023-24 project list covers 400+ projects across plants (Bhilai, Rourkela, Durgapur, Bokaro, IISCO, mines) without per-project amounts
• Divyang and senior citizen support: assistive devices via ALIMCO; Home and Hope (Rourkela), Ashalata Kendra (Bokaro), Siyan Sadan (Bhilai), Acharya Dham (Durgapur)

Trees and greening

• Durgapur: maintenance of 12,000 trees and 5,000 new trees, Vasundhara SAIL Bio-Diversity Park
• Bhilai: Tree Plantation under Harihar Chhattisgarh Yojana
• Kuteshwar and Nandini mines: tree plantation in peripheral villages
• Rourkela: plantation and free distribution of saplings in peripheral areas
• Bokaro (West Singhbhum and Ranchi) and Dhanbad: green belt development and tree plantation/distribution
• Over 5 lakh trees maintained in townships (Rs 6.10 crore on Environment Sustainability)

States: Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Bihar.

Implementing agencies: Akshaya Patra Foundation, Ramakrishna Mission Ashram, Narayanpur, Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India (ALIMCO), SAIL plants/units (direct implementation).

Source: S3 SAIL Annual Report 2023-24 and SAIL CSR Projects FY 2023-24 list, pages pdf p53-54, p125 (note 49.6), p342-343 (Annexure XII); project list https://sail.co.in/sites/default/files/2025-02/SAIL%20CSR%20Projects%20FY%202023-24.pdf