FY 2025-26

In FY 2025-26 Vedanta spent ₹101.5 crore on CSR against a 2% obligation of ₹125.4 crore; the largest area was National initiatives and others (₹55 crore).

Period: Apr 2025 - Mar 2026.

• Obligation (2% rule): ₹125.4 crore
• Spent in the year: ₹101.5 crore (projects ₹100 crore, admin overheads ₹1.23 crore, impact assessment ₹0.26 crore)
• Set aside for ongoing projects (Unspent CSR Account): ₹0 crore
• Transferred to a Schedule VII fund: ₹0 crore
• Excess from earlier years set off against this year's obligation: ₹108.1 crore
• Environment spend: not disclosed

Spending by area

Area	Amount
Health and sanitation	₹10 crore
Infrastructure development	₹2 crore
Education, sports and culture	₹13 crore
National initiatives and others	₹55 crore
Others	₹22 crore

Main programmes

• Impact-assessed projects (IICA) listed in Annexure B-1, no amounts given per project:
• Sesa Football Academy, North Goa (transition to a girls' academy)
• Mobile Health Van, Barmer, Rajasthan
• Barmer Unnati agriculture and natural resource programme, Barmer, Rajasthan
• Cairn Enterprise Centre, Barmer, Rajasthan
• Vedanta DAV Schools Programme, Kalahandi, Odisha
• Integrated Watershed and Livelihood Project, Kalahandi, Odisha
• Project Aarogya (Vedanta hospital), Kalahandi, Odisha
• Community Development Project, Sundargarh and Jharsuguda, Odisha (43 village ponds rejuvenated)

Trees and greening

• No tree or plantation figure in the CSR annexure; 43 village ponds restored at Jharsuguda/Sundargarh (water body restoration, no amount)

States: Goa, Rajasthan, Odisha.

Implementing agencies: Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (impact assessment only).

Source: S1 Integrated Report and Annual Accounts 2025-26 (Directors Report CSR annexure, standalone note Nature of CSR expenses), pages pdf pp.168-173 (CSR annexure, B-1), p.380 (note)