In short: Healthcare is India’s second-largest CSR cause, after education. Companies spent ₹8,531 crore on health in FY2024-25 – about 21% of all CSR – and it is growing faster than education, up 16% on the year. Much of it is delivered as camps, mobile units, equipment and nutrition programmes in rural areas, which are events and assets, not line items – and exactly the kind of spend that needs someone on the ground to confirm it happened.
At a glance – healthcare CSR
FY2024-25: ₹8,531 crore · ~21% of national CSR · up 16.1% from ₹7,345 cr · #2 sector · source: MCA National CSR Portal
After education, health is where CSR goes. Hospitals and diagnostics, mobile medical units, health and eye camps, nutrition and maternal-health programmes, medical equipment and ambulances, and water and sanitation – all of it funded from corporate CSR budgets, and increasingly aimed at rural and underserved districts. The Ministry of Corporate Affairs data shows both the scale and the momentum: health is the fastest-growing of India’s two biggest CSR sectors. Here is what the National CSR Portal shows for healthcare. For the full sector picture, see our CSR spending by sector analysis.
CSR spending on healthcare in India, FY2024-25 (₹ crore). Source: MCA National CSR Portal. Infographic by Anaxee Digital Runners.
How much CSR goes to healthcare?
Health CSR rose from ₹7,345 crore in FY2023-24 to ₹8,531 crore in FY2024-25 – a 16.1% increase, faster than education’s 11% and well above the overall growth of CSR. It is now about 21% of every CSR rupee.
Healthcare CSR
₹7,345 Cr → ₹8,531 Cr
Healthcare CSR expenditure, FY2023-24 vs FY2024-25 (₹ crore).
The closely related water-and-sanitation heads add to the health footprint: in FY2024-25, Sanitation (₹439 Cr) and Safe Drinking Water (₹342 Cr) together carried another ₹781 crore of public-health spend. Taken with health care, the broad health-and-WASH cluster is over ₹9,300 crore.
Health-related head (FY2024-25)
CSR (₹ Cr)
Health Care
8,531
Sanitation
439
Safe Drinking Water
342
Poverty, Hunger & Malnutrition
1,647
Nutrition and anti-hunger programmes (₹1,647 Cr) overlap heavily with health delivery in practice. For the full ranking across every sector, see our sector-wise CSR analysis, or the national overview in the CSR spending in India hub.
Why healthcare CSR is hard to verify on the ground
Health CSR is unusually event- and asset-based. A reported number can mean a hundred health camps across a district, a fleet of mobile medical units, diagnostic equipment installed in rural clinics, or nutrition kits distributed to thousands of households. None of that is self-evidencing: a camp either happened or it did not; a machine was either delivered and works or it did not; a beneficiary was either seen or was not. Under Rule 8(3) of the CSR Rules, large projects must be independently assessed by an agency that is not the implementer – and for health programmes that means verifying events and assets where they actually took place.
This is where a field network earns its keep: Anaxee’s Digital Runners can confirm a health camp ran and who attended, verify that equipment and ambulances were delivered and are in use, and survey beneficiaries – geo-tagged and timestamped, across 540 districts rather than a convenient sample.
Camp & event verification – independent confirmation that health camps, screenings and drives actually happened, with attendance evidence. See our field coverage.
Asset & equipment verification – geo-tagged checks that equipment, ambulances and clinic infrastructure were delivered, installed and are in use.
Independent + tech-enabled – Anaxee verifies rather than implements (as Rule 8(3) requires), with timestamped, AI-assisted field capture.
Running a CSR healthcare programme? Whether it is camps, mobile units, equipment or nutrition, let’s put independent, geo-tagged field verification behind the numbers.
In FY2024-25, Indian companies spent ₹8,531 crore on health care – about 21% of all CSR and the second-largest sector, up 16% from ₹7,345 crore in FY2023-24. (Source: MCA National CSR Portal.)
Is healthcare CSR growing?
Yes – health is the fastest-growing of India’s two biggest CSR sectors, up 16.1% in FY2024-25, faster than education’s 11% and faster than overall CSR growth.
What does healthcare CSR fund?
Hospitals and diagnostics, mobile medical units, health and eye camps, maternal and child health, nutrition programmes, medical equipment and ambulances, and water and sanitation – much of it aimed at rural and underserved districts.
Why does healthcare CSR need independent verification?
Because it is largely event- and asset-based – camps, equipment, distributions – which are not self-evidencing. Independent field verification confirms that camps ran, assets were delivered and in use, and beneficiaries were real, as Rule 8(3) requires for large projects.
Where does the healthcare CSR data come from?
From the Ministry of Corporate Affairs’ National CSR Portal (csr.gov.in), built from company disclosures under Section 135. Figures are sector-wise reported CSR expenditure and reconcile to the national total.
Data note. Health care, sanitation, safe drinking water and nutrition figures (FY2023-24 and FY2024-25) are sector-wise reported CSR from the Ministry of Corporate Affairs’ National CSR Portal (csr.gov.in) and reconcile to the national totals (₹35,918 cr FY23-24; ₹40,794 cr FY24-25). All amounts in ₹ crore. Compiled and field-verified by Anaxee Digital Runners.
Govind Agrawal is the Founder & CEO of Anaxee Digital Runners — India’s Reach Engine. He writes on last-mile reach across Bharat, go-to-market, field data and climate-tech execution.
