CSR Spending by State in India: FY2025 Data & Rankings

Corporate social responsibility is now one of India’s largest private development funds – ₹40,794 crore in FY2024-25. But where it lands is a different question from how much is spent. Read state by state, the National CSR Portal shows a map shaped by corporate geography, not by need: the money pools where big companies are headquartered, and thins out exactly where development indicators are weakest. This is the full state-wise picture, and what it means for anyone trying to deploy – or verify – CSR across India. For the national overview across sectors and companies, see our CSR spending in India hub.

Which states get the most CSR funding?

Maharashtra alone takes more than a fifth of all CSR, roughly as much as the next two states combined. Here are the top 15 states and UTs by CSR spend in FY2024-25.

How concentrated is CSR geographically?

Very. The top 5 states account for 54% of all CSR, the top 10 for 74%. The entire North-East, Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, Himachal and most Union Territories together receive low single-digit percentages. CSR follows where companies book their head-office spend, which is why industrial and metro states dominate and why some of the states with the greatest development need sit near the bottom of the table.

Which states are growing fastest?

The headline ranking hides the real movement. Several states have grown their CSR inflow more than tenfold in a decade – often faster than the metros – as companies widen their footprint beyond the traditional hubs.

For an industrialising state like Madhya Pradesh – up 8.4x to ₹1,195 crore but still only 12th nationally – the growth is real but the on-ground delivery footprint is thin, which is where a verification partner with field reach across the state matters most.

Why state-level CSR data only tells half the story

A state total tells you where money was reported spent – not where a programme was actually delivered, or whether it reached the district and village it claims. The gap is widest exactly where CSR is hardest to see: rural and tribal blocks far from the state capital, spread across hundreds of sites. Under Rule 8(3) of the CSR Rules, large projects must be independently assessed by an agency that is not the implementer – and at state and district scale, that means boots on the ground.

• Reach into every district – a field network across 540 districts, 11,000+ pincodes and 26 states, so a programme is verified across its whole state footprint, not just near the city. See field coverage.
• Geo-tagged proof – every visit timestamped and location-stamped, so state and district claims can be checked, not just trusted.
• Independent of delivery – Anaxee does not run the programmes it verifies, which is what Rule 8(3) requires.

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