FY 2024-25

In FY 2024-25 UltraTech Cement Limited spent ₹165.16 crore on CSR against a 2% obligation of ₹161.18 crore.

Period: Apr 2024 - Mar 2025.

• Obligation (2% rule): ₹161.18 crore
• Spent in the year: ₹165.16 crore (projects ₹157.03 crore, admin overheads ₹8.13 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): ₹3.98 crore
• Environment spend: not disclosed

Main programmes

• Reports 1.82 million CSR beneficiaries; 507 villages (programme amounts not disclosed)
• Education: reach of 1,80,430 students; 102 model Anganwadis established by FY25 (8 upgraded in Baloda Bazaar); 1,500 school bags in Babarkot and Mitiyala (Gujarat)
• Healthcare: 4,77,889 beneficiaries of health initiatives; nutritional support to 742 TB patients; monthly multi-speciality camps at Manawar (Dhar, MP)
• Drinking water: 38 new water sources and refurbishment across 48 villages; water ATMs at Tadipatri, Kuchipudi (Andhra Pradesh) and Awarpur (Maharashtra)
• Livelihoods: 36,122 farmers supported; 56,211 cattle immunised; 220 sprinkler systems and 52 pumps in Baloda Bazaar (Chhattisgarh) and Sonebhadra (UP) for 272 farmers
• Watershed: 9 check dams built, 11 repaired, 13 ponds and 66 harvesting structures at Malkhed (Karnataka) and Tadipatri (Andhra Pradesh), 271 million litres conserved
• Project Saksham women tailoring training (280 trained, 230 placed); mushroom cultivation at Baga (Himachal Pradesh)
• Infrastructure: 5,28,108 people benefited from village infrastructure; Gokul Gaushalas at 6 locations housing 2,163 cattle; 24 solar streetlights in Chandrapalyam (Tamil Nadu)

Trees and greening

• Company-wide saplings planted near operational sites: 4,66,500 (survival 85.82%); reported under biodiversity KPIs, not stated as CSR-funded

States: Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan.

Implementing agencies: Microsoft Philanthropy, BAIF Development Research Foundation, NABARD, Aide et Action, Janhitay Mandal, Aditya Birla Centre for Community Initiatives and Rural Development (programme umbrella).

Source: S2 Integrated and Sustainability Report 2024-25, pages CSR annexure PDF 96-98; narrative PDF 64-68