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    Maharastra Tops List Of Maximum CSR Spending

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    By on Media Monitoring, Private Sector

    When we look at the total CSR spendings by various companies in different states of the country, we see that there is clearly a big discrimination by the companies as many rich states like Maharashtra, Delhi, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat have cornered major part of the CSR spending while poor states like Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar, Assam, Uttarakhand etc. have received less than 1% each of the total CSR spending. Shockingly, a large state like Uttar Pradesh received just 2.55% and 2.94% of the total CSR spendings during FY17 and FY16, respectively. On the other hand, Maharashtra remained to be the top recipient of CSR funds in all three years up to FY17, cornering more than 14% share.

    When we look more closely at the trend of CSR expenditure state-wise, we find that those states receive better CSR spending that house big corporate and these companies are interested in spending the amount around their own vicinity. Just to highlight this fact, Maharashtra, which received 14.88% of CSR spending in FY17, got mammoth Rs. 442.22 crore from Reliance Industries Ltd. alone. Bajaj Auto, Coal India and Infosys were the other main spenders in Maharashtra. On the other hand, erstwhile Andhra Pradesh (now Andhra and Telangana) and Karnataka received decent amounts in FY16 and FY17 due to the fact that many big IT, petroleum, automobiles and pharma companies are active in these states.

    This psyche of companies must change as they are just funding the better-off states of the country while turning a blind eye towards the areas that actually require the vital financial CSR support to uplift the living standards of the people. Interestingly, the historically backward area of northeast is nowhere in the CSR spending strategy and these seven states got less than 0.20% of the total CSR spending during FY17 and FY16. If this is the case, we can imagine the real impact of CSR expenditure on financially backward states.

    CSR Spending In Various States

    S.No. States Amount Spent   Amount Spent   Amount Spent  
    FY 2014-15   FY 2015-16   FY 2016-17
    (INR Cr.) (INR Cr.) (INR Cr.)
    1 PAN India 4434.12 46.36 4650.39 33.63 1928.25 40.86
    2 Maharashtra 1372.34 14.35 1810.44 13.09 702.36 14.88
    3 Delhi 214.23 2.24 468.17 3.39 229.87 4.87
    4 Madhya Pradesh 137.15 1.43 178.93 1.29 213.47 4.52
    5 Karnataka 382.78 4.00 730.63 5.28 202.71 4.30
    6 Tamil Nadu 498.89 5.22 597.59 4.32 202.53 4.29
    7 Odisha 249.49 2.61 604.26 4.37 191.42 4.06
    8 Gujarat 296.53 3.10 550.98 3.98 152.04 3.22
    9 West Bengal 178.6 1.87 399.89 2.89 121.12 2.57
    10 Uttar Pradesh 138.63 1.45 406.93 2.94 120.34 2.55
    11 Haryana 176.29 1.84 364.21 2.63 107.87 2.29
    12 Andhra Pradesh 403.91 4.22 1220.53 8.83 101.69 2.15
    13 Rajasthan 271.35 2.84 472.46 3.42 84.99 1.80
    14 Telangana 94.88 0.99 248.56 1.80 64.56 1.37
    15 Kerala 64.29 0.67 129.23 0.93 50.94 1.08
    16 Assam 133.06 1.39 166.8 1.21 38.28 0.81
    17 Bihar 36.19 0.38 108.14 0.78 36.9 0.78
    18 Uttarakhand 69.99 0.73 71.5 0.52 30.74 0.65
    19 Jammu And Kashmir 40.56 0.42 103.01 0.74 27.83 0.59
    20 Jharkhand 75.86 0.79 115.7 0.84 24.24 0.51
    21 Punjab 53.85 0.56 68.16 0.49 20.16 0.43
    22 Chhattisgarh 158.88 1.66 236.21 1.71 14.85 0.31
    23 Himachal Pradesh 9.29 0.10 51.7 0.37 10.56 0.22
    24 Goa 26.6 0.28 30.24 0.22 10.53 0.22
    25 Arunachal Pradesh 11.03 0.12 1.49 0.01 7.98 0.17
    26 Manipur 1.56 0.02 5.93 0.04 6.02 0.13
    27 Chandigarh 1.72 0.02 5.08 0.04 4.16 0.09
    28 Puducherry 1.8 0.02 6.31 0.05 3.7 0.08
    29 Meghalaya 3.52 0.04 3.86 0.03 2.98 0.06
    30 Sikkim 1.03 0.01 1.89 0.01 2.12 0.04
    31 Dadra And Nagar Haveli 2.54 0.03 12.03 0.09 1.65 0.03
    32 Daman And Diu 20.05 0.21 2.12 0.02 0.83 0.02
    33 Tripura 1.16 0.01 1.46 0.01 0.6 0.01
    34 Nagaland 1.1 0.01 0.94 0.01 0.45 0.01
    35 Mizoram 1.02 0.01 1.07 0.01 0.08 0.00
    36 Andaman And Nicobar 0.29 0.00 0.53 0.00 0.06 0.00
    37 Lakshadweep 0 0.00 0.3 0.00 0 0.00
    Grand Total (in Cr.) 9,564.77 13,827.86 4,719.00
    Source: MCA

     

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