Pankhudi Portal: Registration, In-Kind Contributions and Proposal Tracking

The Pankhudi portal is the Ministry of Women and Child Development’s single-window website where individuals, NRIs, NGOs and companies offer support to Anganwadi centres, child care institutions and women’s shelters. Union Minister Annapurna Devi launched it in New Delhi on 8 January 2026. It now serves as the ministry’s formal route for CSR and voluntary partnerships, so anyone who wants to help one of these institutions is expected to come through it.

Most people who search for it expect a donation page. It isn’t one. The portal accepts no money at all: every contribution is made in kind, as materials or services, and it moves only after a district or state officer approves it. NGOs register here as givers too, not as grant seekers. Hold on to that one fact and every screen on the portal starts to make sense.

What is the Pankhudi portal?

Pankhudi matches what grassroots institutions need with what contributors can give. Institutions run by state and UT governments under the ministry’s missions post their requirements, contributors browse them and pledge items or services, and officers approve each step until the delivery is logged. Think of it as a wish list maintained by the government, where the giver ships the item and an officer signs for it.

Who the Pankhudi portal is for

The portal serves two sides. On one side are the institutions that need things. On the other are the people and organisations willing to supply them.

The launch release names the institutions the portal is meant to strengthen:

• more than 14 lakh Anganwadi Centres;
• about 5,000 Child Care Institutions;
• around 800 One Stop Centres;
• more than 500 Sakhi Niwas (working women’s hostels);
• more than 400 Shakti Sadan (relief and rehabilitation homes for women in distress).

Anganwadis are the village-level centres of the ICDS and Anganwadi system, where young children get supplementary food, health checks and preschool. That’s why requirements under Mission Saksham Anganwadi & Poshan 2.0 lean heavily on nutrition and early childhood care and education, and the POSHAN Abhiyaan note explains the nutrition side in full.

What the requirements actually look like is concrete. On 14 September 2026, the requirement categories on the portal’s home page opened with civil infrastructure, listing items such as:

• additional rooms;
• toilets for girls, boys, Divyang children and staff;
• drinking water and overhead tanks;
• playgrounds and ramps;
• kitchens, dining space and rainwater harvesting.

On the contributor side, the ministry pitched the portal to a wide circle: individuals, NRIs, NGOs and companies spending CSR money. A retired teacher in Pune who wants to fund a playground and a company with a CSR budget use the same screens and the same approval chain.

Who can register and what each needs

Four categories can register, and each has its own form. Registration asks for identity numbers, not scanned documents, so have the right number ready before you start.

Two of these numbers come from other government systems, and the portal won’t issue them for you. The NGO Darpan ID is the unique ID an NGO gets by signing up on NITI Aayog’s Darpan platform, and NITI Aayog hosts it. The CSR Registration Number is generated by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs when an entity files Form CSR-1, which is done on the MCA portal. Registration of CSR implementing agencies with the Centre has been mandatory since 1 April 2021.

The registration screens also carry a Passport Number field, with a note that passports are issued by the Ministry of External Affairs. Keep yours handy if you’re registering from abroad.

How to register on the Pankhudi portal

Registration takes a few minutes if your ID number and a working email and mobile are ready. The steps below follow the labels the portal shows.

1. Open the official site at pankhudi.wcd.gov.in and click Register.
2. Pick your tab: Individual (From India), NRI, NGO/NPO or CSR.
3. Fill in the form. An individual gives Name, Email, Mobile, PAN, State/UT and District/Region. An organisation gives Organisation Name, organization type, registered address and its Darpan ID or CSR Registration Number.
4. Set a password with at least 1 uppercase letter, 1 number and 1 special character.
5. Click Validate Registration. Enter the OTP sent to your email (and, for individuals, your mobile) within 5 minutes.
6. Accept the terms and click Submit. Your login credentials arrive on the registered email.

The OTP window is the step that trips people up. Five minutes is short if the email lands in spam, so keep the inbox open before you click Validate Registration.

How to log in and reset a password

Contributors log in through a separate button from officers, and that’s the first thing to get right.

1. On the home page, click Login and choose Individual/NRI/CSR/NGO Login. The other option, Administrator/Ministry/State/District Login, is for officers only.
2. Enter your registered email, or switch to the Mobile Login tab and use your mobile number.
3. Enter your password and the CAPTCHA, then click Login.

If you’ve forgotten the password, click Forgot Password, then enter your registered email and the CAPTCHA and click Submit. A new password comes by email. Change it from your profile after you log in, because an emailed password shouldn’t stay in use.

How to contribute to a live project

A live project is a requirement that an officer has already created and approved. Contributing means pledging part or all of what it needs.

1. After logging in, open Live Projects from the left sidebar (it may appear as Project Search or Explore Projects).
2. Filter by Mission, Category, State, District, Project Title, Project UID or Description, then click Search.
3. Click View Details on a project card. The page shows the objectives, the required support, the location and the status.
4. Click Contribute. The Contribution Form lists the project’s line items.
5. Enter your quantity and remarks for each item, then click Submit, or Draft to finish later.

Some projects show an Open for partial contribution? flag. That’s worth checking first: a company that can fund 10 toilets doesn’t have to take on a project asking for 200 if partial pledges are allowed.

How to submit a proposal request

A Proposal Request is what you use when no project exists yet for the thing you want to give. You propose it, and the government side decides whether to take it up.

1. Log in, open My Proposals and click Add Proposal Request.
2. Fill in the mandatory fields: Mission, Scheme, State, the recipient User and a Description. Choose a District where it applies.
3. To support a particular institution, search for it in the institutions tab first and name it in the description, as the screen itself advises.
4. Click Draft to save, or Submit to send it for review.

Every proposal passes two tiers of approval. A single-district proposal goes from the District User to the District Reviewer; a state-level or multi-district one goes from the State User to the State Reviewer. The portal calls these roles Maker and Checker: one officer prepares a decision and a second one verifies it, much like a bank cheque that needs two signatures. The analogy stops at the signatures, though, because either tier can also send the proposal back with questions.

Two rules deserve attention before you click Submit. A proposal can be deleted only while it’s still a Draft. And a final approval can’t be reversed from the portal, so read the description twice.

How to track status and update delivery

Everything you pledge shows up under My Contributions, and everything you propose under My Proposals. Each item carries a status, and each change triggers an email.

Once a contribution is approved, you still have to deliver it and record the delivery:

1. Open My Contributions, find the approved contribution and click Delivery Update in the Action column.
2. Enter the delivered quantity, the delivery date and remarks for each line item.
3. Click Submit, or Save as Draft if only part of the items has reached the institution.
4. An officer checks the Delivery Status tab and approves it. The contribution is then marked Delivery Approved and you get an email.

After delivery, the Feedback button on the Delivery View page takes up to 500 characters and an image. The administrator may publish it under the Success Story section of the main site.

Documents, fees and timelines

The paperwork on the contributor’s side is light. Registration needs only the ID numbers in the table above. Where the portal asks for files, such as documents attached to an activity or a project, the limit is 3 MB per file in PDF, Word (DOC/DOCX) or image formats like JPG and PNG.

There’s no registration fee listed on the portal, and no payment screen anywhere in it, because the portal doesn’t handle money.

There’s also no fixed timeline for approval. The portal’s own FAQ says approval time depends on how many levels review your contribution and on whether a reviewer asks for clarification. The practical advice it gives is sensible: keep your profile current, read the project details before pledging and store receipts and acknowledgements, since a company will need them for its own CSR records.

Common errors and their fixes

Most failed registrations come down to a handful of avoidable mistakes.

Where to complain or ask for help

Problems with a specific project go through Raise Your Query, the button at the bottom-right of the project details page.

1. Choose Query or Complaint.
2. Select the recipient, either the District Nodal Officer or the State Nodal Officer.
3. Enter a subject and a message of up to 1,500 characters, then click Send.
4. Track the reply under My Complaints/Queries on your dashboard, which shows the status (Open or Close), the days pending and the reply date.

For problems with the portal itself, the contact page lists a Pankhudi Portal desk at the ministry on 011-23388715. The ministry’s postal address is Shastri Bhawan, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Road, New Delhi 110001.

The portal also displays three national helplines: 181 for women, 1098 for children and 1515 for Poshan and PMMVY. These exist for people who need help, not for portal errors, so don’t expect them to fix a failed OTP.

What the Pankhudi portal does not do

The portal is narrower than its launch coverage suggests, and readers get misled in five places.

• It doesn’t take money. No cash, no online payment and no bank transfer passes through it.
• It doesn’t fund NGOs. An NGO registers as a contributor offering support, not as an applicant for a grant. The role of civil society and NGOs in welfare delivery is wider than this one channel.
• It doesn’t issue Darpan IDs or CSR numbers. Those come from NITI Aayog and MCA first.
• It doesn’t settle a company’s CSR compliance. That’s governed by Section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013.
• Its manuals show sample data. The FAQ states that the screenshots in its user manuals are for demonstration only.

The CSR point needs a sentence of law behind it. Section 135 applies to a company with a net worth of Rs 500 crore or more, a turnover of Rs 1,000 crore or more or a net profit of Rs 5 crore or more, and such a company must spend at least 2 percent of its average net profit of the last 3 years on activities listed in Schedule VII. The rule has been in force since 1 April 2014, and CSR remains a board-driven, disclosure-based system reported to MCA. The CSR note covers the full framework. Whether a given in-kind contribution counts towards a company’s 2 percent is for its board to decide under those rules; the portal’s pages don’t address it.

Where the Pankhudi portal stands today

The portal is young, and the early numbers are small. By 3 February 2026, less than a month after launch, 38 contributors had registered, the minister told the Lok Sabha on 6 February 2026. For scale, that’s 38 contributors against more than 14 lakh Anganwadi Centres the portal is meant to serve.

The ministry’s effort so far has gone into the officers, not just the public. It has run training and handholding sessions for state and district functionaries, held virtual meetings with senior state officials and added a Pankhudi module to the major courses of the Savitribai Phule National Institute of Women and Child Development, the ministry’s training institute named after the reformer Savitribai Phule.

That order makes sense. A contributor’s pledge goes nowhere unless a district officer has posted a requirement and is there to approve it, and the “No user has been assigned” message shows what happens when that officer is missing. For contributors, the takeaway is to start with one district and one institution, and to check that its requirement is live before promising anything to your board. For companies weighing where their CSR money goes, the trends in CSR filings show how crowded health and education already are, and the portal is the ministry’s bid to steer more of that support to women and children.

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