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SEIL Energy India Limited, an autarkic powerfulness shaper operating a 2,640 MW supercritical thermal powerfulness analyzable successful Nellore, and supplies 1,500 MW powerfulness to Andhra Pradesh to conscionable the State’ ever increasing vigor needs, is focusing connected grassroot improvement and socio-economic upliftment successful the portion done its recently established SEIL Energy Foundation. The institution has earmarked ₹40 crore for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities successful this fiscal twelvemonth (FY 2026-27).
In an exclusive interrogation with The Hindu, SEIL Energy India Limited’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Janmejaya Mahapatra said, “The institution is statutorily obliged to walk 2% of its mean profits of the past 3 years connected CSR. This amounts to astir ₹100 crore. More than the value, the interaction and scope of the CSR initiatives are important for us. Our CSR programmes person benefitted astir 10 lakh section radical implicit the past decade.”
“The contiguous CSR thrust is going to springiness a large propulsion to A.P. Chief Minister’s ambitious Public-Private-People Partnership (P4) inaugural aimed astatine eradicating poorness successful the State by 2029. Majority of the CSR contributions suffice nether this strategy - making SEIL Energy 1 of the cardinal drivers of this inaugural successful the region,” helium said.
As per SEIL Energy’s yearly reports, it registered a nett aft taxation (PAT) of ₹1,508 crore and ₹2,281 crore during FY 2024–25 and FY 2023–24 respectively. The institution confirmed dependable yearly gross of much than ₹8,500 crore paired with a coagulated PAT of implicit ₹1,300 crore for the past fiscal (FY 2025-26).
Highlighting the company’s large CSR projects, the CEO said, “Our commitments see ₹12 crore for a 30-bed infirmary and ₹5 crore for an Inclusive Sports Academy (ISA) for differently-abled and intellectually-challenged people. The ISA is being developed alongside the Government of India’s National Institute for the Empowerment of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities (NIEPID).”
Other assemblage enactment initiatives see a three-kilometre-long h2o pipeline and 18 reverse osmosis (RO) plants to combat coastal h2o scarcity. He further added: "The institution has distributed 2,840 bicycles to students from Class 8 to Class 10, bulk of who were miss students (2,300 bicycles) to promote miss kid acquisition and trim schoolhouse dropouts. Additionally, 98 battery-powered tricycles person been fixed to persons with disabilities 'divyangjan'. We person besides provided patrolling vehicles and surveillance drones to the constabulary department.”
The company’s CSR helping has precocious skilled astir 55 young women aged 18-30 years from underprivileged backgrounds done transformative empowerment programmes. These women person been successfully placed successful commercialized roles astatine multinational companies and different commercialized outlets implicit the past mates of years.
