Country/Countries I have worked in:: India
More Details: Registration No. 26665/95 31st March, 1995
(2008 – 09)
(An All India NGO)
Address: HIG-B/79, A-Sector, Vidhya Nagar
Bhopal – 462 026 (M.P.)
Phone No. : 0755-405 8566.
Mobile No. : 98260 20686, 98270 59134, 98263 77497, 98263 56622
Fax No. : 0755-241 8498
E-mail : saharamanch@rediffmail.com
Website: www.saharamanch.org
Organizational Details
Name of Organization : SAHARA MANCH
Legal Status : Non-Government Organization
Registered under : M. P. Societies Registration Act 1973
Registration No. : 26665/95, dated 31 March 1995.
Postal Address
Regd. Office : H-203, Bagmugalia Extension, Bhopal-43
Head Office : HIG-B/79, A-Sector, Vidhya Nagar, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Contact No. : 0755-4058566, 2418498
Mobile No. : +919425012070, 9826020686
Fax No. : 0755-2418498
Website: www.saharamanch.org
E-mail: saharamanch@rediffmail.com
Contact Person :
Capt. V.P. Singh (Retd.)
Chief Functionary & Founder Member
Mobile No. : 09827059134
Email – vrps24@rediffmail.com
Mrs. Vibha Singh
Secretary
Mobile No. : 09425012070
Email – singhvibha66@gmail.com
Mr. Suneel S. Magre
Treasurer,
Mobile No. : 09826020686
Madhya Pradesh State
District Mandla Office : C/o, Mr. Snehal Joshi, Sahashtra Dhara Road, Devdara, Near Resham Center, Mandla
District Tikamgarh Office : c/o Mr. Jai Prakash Shrivastava, Nutan Bihar Colony, Near Sankar Mandir, Tikamgarh, Madhya Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh
Noida Office : B-164, Sector-41, Noida (U.P.)
Phone No. : 0120-2570713,
Chhatisgarh State
District Durg Office : Mr. Sandeep Kumar Rajput, 1st Floor, Samarth Medical Store, Jail Road, Padnabhpur, Durg, Chhatisgarh.
Contact No. : Phone. 0788-4031037
Mobil. 9300290753
Jharkhand State:
Regional & Branch Office : SE-2, Kresent Tower Appt.
(covering Bihar also) South Office Para, Doranda
Ranchi (Jharkhand)
Contact No : Phone: 9431109331
Bankers:
Our Bankers for transactions in Indian Rupees and that of dealing with and handling foreign contributions are:
For Indian Rupee transactions : Canara Bank
Arera Colony Branch
Bhopal
Account No. SB-11167
FCRA No. : Social: 063160153
For Foreign Contributions : State Bank of India
Mahavir Nagar Branch
Bhopal
Account No. 30009523892
Registrations under Income Tax Act:
Because of its character as a charitable, non-profit voluntary organization, the SAHARA MANCH has been granted registrations by the Department of Income Tax and now enjoys the exemptions under following Income Tax Rules:
1. Under Section 12-A of the Income Tax Act
2. Under Section 80-G of the Income Tax Act
Income Tax Details : Pan No. : AA BAS 7896Q
Having “12 A” & “80 G” Certificate from I.T. Department.
Area of Operation as per the Bye-laws :
a) Jurisdiction Area : All India NGO
b) Geographical Area : Urban, Rural, Tribal and Other Remote / Difficult
Areas.
c) Focus Area : Livelihood, Vocational Training and Skill
Development
d) Focus State : Madhya Pradesh, Chhatisgarh, U.P.,
Jharkhand & Bihar
e) Main Target : Woman & Children, Schedule Casts, Schedule
Groups Tribe, Small and Marginal Farmers, BPL
families, Slum Dwellers and disabled.
f) Years of Experience : 14 years
BRIEF HISTORY OF SAHARA MANCH:
Sahara Manch is a National level Non-Government Voluntary Organization operating in the field of Social Development since 1995 and registered as a Society with the Registrar of Firms & Societies, Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal, under M.P. is Societies Registration Act 1973 as No. 26665 dated 31st March 1995. It is based at Bhopal and operates at All-India level, particularly in rural and tribal areas.
Way back in the year 1995 it was realized that natural resources like land, water and forest, which are the assets for providing livelihood, have turned into liabilities due to its over-exploitation and gross neglect, causing problems for families dependent upon these resources and worst sufferers being women and children.
Based on aforesaid findings as well as under their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), an initiative was taken by the two renowned organizations i.e. World Wide Security Organization, Bhopal, and M/s Vasudha Facility Solution Pvt. Ltd., Bhopal, headed by Capt. V.P. Singh (Retd.) and Dr. Neeraj Kumar (Associate Professor, Xavier Institute of management Bhuve\neshwar, Orrisa), respectively and manned by group of professionals with multidisciplinary background and considerable grass root experience, and decided to form a Society to focus on this gray area to help uplifting the poor families, particularly women and children and to create better livelihood opportunities for them.
Thus, SAHARA MANCH came into existence on 31st March 1995, as a Society (Voluntary Organization) with specific objectives of carrying out Research and other Projects aimed for alleviation of poverty and to intervene in areas of social importance, such as education, livelihood, health, nutrition, hygiene, sanitation etc.
We enjoy the exemption under Section 80-G and 12-A of the Income Tax Act and having its Permanent Account Number (PAN) as AA BAS 7896-Q. We are also registered under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA) as No. Social – 063160153.
Immediately after its registration, the society started promoting innovative methodology by participatory approach to make judicious use of local resources and enhance local skill for generating gainful self-employment and employment opportunities for sustainable development. At present, society is implementing programmes as per the work in hand and also implementing various Income (self-finance) Generation Activities and Training Programmes coupled with Integrated Horticulture, Irrigation Management, Ground Water Charging, Reproductive Health, Sanitation, Non-Formal Education (NFE) and SHG Formation & their Marketing Linkages etc. At the same time the society has also established partnership with various other organizations / resource persons, who from time to time give their expertise on different topics.
Vision, Mission and Objective of Sahara Manch :
Vision:
“A community where every individual finds the means of living and gets appropriate resources to fulfill the needs of livelihood so that a better social living is ensured for all”.
Our Mission:
“Improvement in the quality of life and empowerment of the Women & Children specially from backward community / economically poor & deprived section through intensive capacity building interventions, income generation activities and health related activities with special focus on continuous & Sustainable support.”
Keeping in view the aforesaid primary motive, “Sahara Manch” operates as a social organization, aspiring to fulfill and work towards the following visionary aspects for extending a much needed helping hand to the needy, poor, women, children, disabled, orphans, uncared senior citizens, scheduled casts and scheduled tribes, with particular intervention in rural areas – covering more than 70% of population in the target areas.
Core Activities
Vocational Training & Skill Development Training
Income Generation / Self Employment Activities
Catering to Health needs
Educational Services
Women Empowerment
Integrated Development
Supporting Activities
Emergency relief operations
Awareness camps
De-addiction camps
Capacity Building
Research Studies
Our Objectives:
1. To create awareness among the people especially Women & Children about the root cause of the various problems and to kindle the confidence in their ability to find the solution.
2. To develop and provide better educational and health services to the community.
3. To organize the people into social groups that can act as change agents / peer-educators for society.
4. To increase the people’s capacity through various interventions and capacity building.
5. To act as a demand creator for the groups so that maximum resources both internally and externally are generated.
6. To act as a facilitator to address the development needs identified by the people themselves.
7. To promote income generation activities to generate self-employment.
8. To make the community aware especially women about Gender issues, Reproductive health, rights, importance of sanitation etc.
9. To draw a plan for sustenance and keep providing support whenever needed.
10. Create opportunity of employment /self employment for youth by providing vocational training.
11. Improving the quality of life by promoting Income Generation Activities and providing opportunity for better Livelihood through Vocational Training Center,
12. Imparting trainings to create awareness and infuse confidence leading them to make employable or to set up an enterprise;
13. Caring for Health of People, Including Nutrition, Child-Care, Reproductive Health, Institutional Deliveries, Lactating Mothers, HIV/AIDS/STD/RTI, and Sanitation etc.
14. Women Empowerment;
15. Literacy – including Non-Formal Education (NFE);
16. Water and Soil Conservation;
17. Research and Impact Assessments
As part of our income generation activities, we are most successfully running “CENTRE FOR VOCATIONAL TRAINING” at Bhopal, April 1995, aimed to provide job/ Enterprise-oriented training to youths to enable them to in self reliant. Till 31st March, 09, we have successfully trained approx. 17,500 youths.
Focus Interventions:
To achieve the aforesaid objective, our focus interventions, so far, include:
1. Income Generation/Self Employment activities through Vocational Training specially for women and under privileged and to Promoting primary education to enable individual to be self dependent;
2. Integrated development of rural areas especially to help illiterates and link them to income generation, horticulture, dairy, and linking them to micro finance / bank
3. Advocacy programme for Creating awareness on various issues of social importance and also about various ‘government’ welfare scheme; and also create awareness about de-addiction , ADIS, and Superstitions,
4. Special Capacity building programmes for traditional skill holders and link them to the market,
5. Research, studies, particularly aimed for promoting livelihood & Rural Technologies;
Major Operational Areas:
Although, we are a National level voluntary organization but, presently are focusing our activities in the States of
• Madhya Pradesh (covering 8 districts), District with details of Projects
• Chhatisgarh (2 districts),
