Apart from these, ensuring environmental sustainability is another cause that firms have focused on The government’s efforts to reduce illiteracy, poverty and environmental damage have received a shot in the arm with companies focusing their corporate social responsibility (CSR) spending on similar activities. Promoting education and eradicating poverty received the maximum funds in the year ended 31 March, according to the annual reports of the top 100 companies by market capitalisation on the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) as analysed by NextGen, a Bengaluru-based CSR management firm. Of the 100 companies, the annual reports of 85 were available by 14 September, the analysts’ cut-off date for accepting data. The CSR rules, 2014, under the Companies Act, 2013, mandated that firms spend an average of 2% of their previous three years’ profit on 11 activities listed by the government in Schedule VII of the Act. An analysis of the 85 companies, carried out by CSR managemen