About Foundation, Legal Governance & Operational Setup FAQs
Supansha® Development Foundation is an ISO 9001:2015 certified Section 8 Not-for-Profit organization registered under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA), Government of India (License No. 144064) in the year 2023. The Foundation works across core domains and 9 targeted service areas to deliver sustainable solutions and project activities that address critical, unmet community needs.
SUPANSHA stands for Social Union for Progressive Advancement and Navigation towards Sustainable Holistic Actions. Driven by the core philosophy of इक्षाशक्ति (Power of Willingness), ज्ञानशक्ति (Power of Knowledge), and क्रियाशक्ति (Power of Action), the Foundation works to bring holistic advancement in healthcare, education, research, data science, and ecological care.
Supansha holds all primary government approvals and tax compliances:
Corporate & Quality Registration: Section 8 License No. 144064 (Incorporated in 2023) and ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System certification.
Tax Approvals: Permanent 12A and 80G tax exemption status granted by the Income Tax Department.
Government Portals: Registered on NITI Aayog NGO DARPAN (Unique ID: MP/2023/0348886) and compliant with MCA CSR-1 requirements (Registration No. CSR00059426).
Registered Trademarks: Legal trademarks and brand marks include SUPANSHA®, SURMAI™, SURAMYA™, and DRDATA™.
The Board of Directors brings over 20+ years of practical experience in the social development sector and strongly believes in working through collaboration and partnerships. A Quality Management System (QMS) is active for ground-level monitoring, ensuring that project approvals and operational decisions are processed on the same working day.
Supansha operates on a structured 10-tier hierarchy:
L1 to L4: Board of Directors and Advisory Council.
L5 to L6: Senior Managers and Operational Managers.
L7 to L9: Field Officers, Program Coordinators, and Working Staff.
L10: External Vendors and Contractual Manpower hired on a project basis.
The Organizational Backbone: The members of SURMAI™ Welfare Groups (SWG), who stand dedicated with the Foundation in mind, body, and spirit.
To ensure absolute fairness and transparency in every project, Supansha has established specialized Internal Committees. These committees comprise both internal Foundation staff and invited external independent members to resolve grievances, operational challenges, or complaints impartially.
Targeted Service Areas & Beneficiary Support FAQs
Supansha® Development Foundation provides direct assistance and sustainable interventions across 9 targeted core service areas as outlined on our platform:
Child Development: Early childhood care, learning, safety, life skills, nutrition, and play-based activities.
Adolescent Care: Physical and mental health awareness, hygiene education, and developmental guidance.
Youth Enrichment: Structured skill acquisition, career mentorship, academic internships, and leadership orientation.
Women Empowerment: Market-linked vocational training, financial self-reliance through SHGs, and community leadership.
Positive Masculinity: Engaging men and boys to foster social responsibility, empathy, and positive community engagement.
Elder Support: Tailored healthcare, emotional well-being initiatives, and emergency aid for senior citizens.
Ability Inclusion: Promoting dignity, social inclusion, assistive equipment, and adaptive sports for individuals with disabilities.
Eco-Stewardship: Biodiversity conservation, native tree care, environmental restoration, and waste management drives.
Community Advancement: Grassroots mobilization, social action networks, welfare causes, and community support systems.
Core Focus: Early childhood care, nutritional security, hygiene education, and value-based learning.
Key Activities: School awareness drives (such as SUPOSHAN Sewa), nutrition kit distributions, health and sanitation workshops, and value education through sports and interactive activities.
Target Beneficiaries: Children aged 0–12 years, school students, malnourished children, and underprivileged kids in rural and semi-urban communities.
Primary Benefits: Improved physical health, balanced nutritional intake, early foundation in hygiene habits, and holistic personality development.
Core Focus: Physical and mental health awareness, puberty and hygiene guidance, and youth well-being.
Key Activities: Menstrual health and hygiene drives for teenage girls, adolescent counseling, substance abuse prevention workshops, and digital literacy awareness.
Target Beneficiaries: Teenage boys and girls (ages 13–19), school and college students, and dropouts in grassroot areas.
Primary Benefits: Safe spaces to discuss mental and physical health, removal of social taboos, improved personal hygiene, and informed decision-making.
Core Focus: Skill building, career guidance, academic internships, and social leadership.
Key Activities: Structured skill acquisition workshops, academic and field internships, leadership orientations, and participation in community development drives (including BYEP program initiatives).
Target Beneficiaries: Youth (ages 18–30), university students, tribal youth, and unemployed rural youngsters.
Primary Benefits: Real-world development experience, career readiness, mentorship, ISO-certified experience credentials, and active participation in community building.
Core Focus: At SUPANSHA, we firmly believe that real empowerment of women is incomplete without knowledge; gyan (knowledge) is the supreme power (param shakti) of every woman. Guided by this belief, our focus centers on economic self-reliance, leadership development, knowledge-driven capacity building, and health security for women.
Key Activities: Formation and support of Self Help Groups (SHGs), market-linked vocational training, maternal health awareness drives (like 'Swasth Nari, Sashakt Parivar Abhiyaan'), and capacity-building for SURMAI Sakhi members through course modules of SPANSHA® Learning.
Target Beneficiaries: Grassroot women, homemakers, rural and tribal women, micro-entrepreneurs, and single mothers.
Primary Benefits: Financial independence, community leadership roles, access to welfare networks, improved maternal health, in-kind support and decision-making power in households.
Core Focus: Engaging men and boys to promote social responsibility, empathy, gender equality, and safe community spaces.
Key Activities: SURMAI Mitra workshops, men's mental health safe spaces, community logistics support in health drives, and anti-violence awareness sessions.
Target Beneficiaries: Adult men, young boys, community elders, and local male volunteers.
Primary Benefits: Reduction in domestic and social conflict, active male participation in family health and welfare, mental health support for men, and creation of safer neighborhoods.
Core Focus: Geriatric health, emotional companionship, dignity, and emergency care for senior citizens.
Key Activities: Free geriatric health checkups, distribution of essential medicines, emotional counseling, family counselling and support, community engagement for seniors, and emergency aid via SURMAI-SURAMYA Funds.
Target Beneficiaries: Senior citizens (ages 60+), destitute elders, neglected elderly individuals in semi-urban and rural areas.
Primary Benefits: Access to timely healthcare, reduction in social isolation and depression, emergency medical relief, and dignified living.
Core Focus: Dignity, social inclusion, rehabilitation, adaptive sports, and long-term aid for persons with disabilities (Divyangjan).
Key Activities: Emotional Support and Counselling, Livelihoods Support, In-kind Support, Distribution of upper/lower limbs, tri-cycles, and adaptive equipment; 3-year agreement with Cricket Association for the Blind - MP, under SURMAI™ Sparsh Programme, to sponsor male/female blind cricket teams; eye and organ donation drives.
Target Beneficiaries: Differently-abled individuals (Divyangjan), visually impaired sports persons, and families caring for disabled members.
Primary Benefits: Physical mobility, equal opportunities in sports and employment, social dignity, and long-term rehabilitation.
Core Focus: Biodiversity preservation, environmental stewardship, stray animal safety, and municipal waste management.
Key Activities: 24-month dedicated care for planted saplings with geo-tagging under SAMPADA Samvardhan Programme, reflective collar drives for stray cattle protection on roads, river cleanup initiatives, temple flower waste recycling models, and school kitchen gardens.
Target Beneficiaries: Local communities, urban municipalities, school children, stray animals, and the natural ecosystem.
Primary Benefits: Increased green cover, cleaner local water bodies, reduction in road accidents involving cattle, sustainable municipal waste processing, and reduced global warming impact.
Core Focus: Grassroots mobilization, social action networks, hyper-local problem-solving, and delivering immediate welfare relief.
Key Activities:
Mobilizing 51-member SURMAI Welfare Groups (SWG) within a 1–3 KM radius and holding regular neighborhood hub meetings.
Organizing targeted welfare drives in local slums (slum bastiyon) and providing in-kind support (clothing, rations, survival kits, and seasonal aid) to residents and night shelters (ashray sthal).
Championing local causes including road safety pledge campaigns, civic advocacy for local infrastructure, and neighborhood resident welfare.
Target Beneficiaries: Slum dwellers, shelter residents (ashray sthal inmates), middle-class families, local micro-merchants, neighborhood associations, and grassroots citizens.
Primary Benefits: An immediate offline community support network, direct in-kind relief for underprivileged bastis, emergency micro-aid access, local civic advocacy, and discount benefits via SURMAI Associate Welfare Cards.
SURMAI-SURAMYA™ Funds (Emergency Micro-Aid) FAQs
The SURMAI-SURAMYA™ Funds is a dedicated community micro-contribution fund designed to provide immediate financial assistance for sudden, urgent micro-level emergency needs ranging from ₹1,000 to ₹50,000. It acts as a fast-response safety net when formal processes or large-scale fundraising are too slow for urgent situations.
Individual beneficiaries, Self Help Groups (SHGs), local community groups, or small registered societies facing genuine, sudden micro-emergencies within SUPANSHA's focus operational areas are eligible to apply under SURMAI-SURAMYA™ Funds.
Financial help is extended strictly for critical causes aligned with the Foundation's 4 core operating domains and 9 targeted service areas, such as emergency medical needs, urgent educational support, immediate livelihood distress, or local community relief, cultural supportive activities.
Applicants can apply online through the official portal. Upon receiving the application, a swift review is conducted based on the recommendations of the Directors directly. Once approved, the funds are transferred directly into the verified bank account of the beneficiary with minimal delay. Subjected to terms and conditions.
To maintain complete transparency, the live status and current available balance of the SURMAI-SURAMYA™ are publicly displayed on the official website portal under SDF Funds in real time.
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Statutory Tax Exemption Benefits (12A, 80G, CSR-1 & Form 10BE) FAQs
Careers, Internships, HR Logistics & Operational Culture FAQs
The selection process is a 3-stage paperless system:
Online CV & Application Screening: Qualification and initial skill-set verification.
24 Hours in 6 Days Orientation: A mandatory trial/orientation period to understand the Foundation's work ethics, culture, and digital reporting system.
Technical Task / Case-Study Assignment & Final Panel Interview: Specialized domain competency assessment.
Upon selection, a candidate is assigned a single lifetime unique ID (under the L1 to L10 level hierarchy) based on the core institutional philosophy "Once an SDFian, Always an SDFian".
SDF Internships are structured and outcome-driven:
Mentorship: Every intern is assigned a dedicated Senior Mentor.
Tenure: Ranging from a minimum of 4 weeks to a maximum of 12 weeks.
Mandatory Deliverables: Execution of specific tasks such as baseline survey data collection, literature reviews, social content/policy design, or live field drive coordination.
Certification: Certificates formatted under ISO 9001:2015 standards, along with a Performance Grade Sheet, are issued upon evaluation of the final project report.
Volunteers and project associates engage with the Foundation on a campaign or assignment basis:
Registration & Skill Mapping: Volunteers register via the website portal by sharing their availability and skill matrix.
Custom Assignment Allocation: The Foundation maps profiles to specific project drives (such as emergency relief operations, blood donation camps, or school nutrition campaigns) to maximize field efficiency.
Active Doer Network: Volunteers are supported with official orientation, field badges, and digital activity logs to ensure structured participation.
Standard Exit Documentation: Departing team members receive an ISO 9001:2015 formatted Experience Certificate, a Performance Metrics Sheet, and a Director-signed Letter of Recommendation.
Institutional Retention Policy: The Foundation never forces anyone to leave; operational challenges are resolved through open dialogue. If a team member leaves, they are welcome to return in the future with the same dignity and seniority parity ("Once an SDFian, Always an SDFian").
Digital Cloud Ecosystem: Over 90% of the Foundation's operations are managed on online cloud systems (management portals and shared drives).
Strict Daily Reporting Deadline: Whether working from home, on the field, or at the physical office, the daily reporting link automatically closes at 12:00 AM (Midnight).
Re-opening Protocol: A missed reporting link is unlocked only after submitting a formal email request to the Reporting Manager with a valid technical or operational justification. All daily reports must be evidence-based (including metrics, links, and work outputs).
SDF operates under a lean, focused, and impact-driven 10-Tier Organizational Structure (L1–L10):
L1 (Board / Governance Level): Board of Directors
L2 (Executive Leadership Level): Executive Director (Mrs. Sharda Dubey)
L3 (Director Level): Operations Director (Dr. Pankaj Dubey)
L4 (Advisory / Professional Level): Chartered Accountant (CA), Auditor, Technical Advisor, Legal Advisor, Technical Consultant, Committee Member, Senior Member (Non-Employee Advisory & Professional Structure)
L5 (Senior Management Level): Senior Managers
L6 (Manager Level): Managers
L7 (Officer / Professional Level): Officers / Professionals
L8 (Executive Level): Executives
L9 (Assistant / Support Level): Assistants / Support Staff/ Internal Volunteers
L10 (External / Service Provider Level): Vendors, Suppliers, External Volunteers, Service Providers, Technical/IT/Digital Providers, Agencies, Consultants, Experts, and Outsourced Manpower Agencies (as per Service Contract/Work Order)
Performance assessment at SDF is fully transparent, structured, and tailored according to role hierarchies and specific program demands:
Role-Based JDs & Program-Specific KRAs/KPIs: While every hierarchy level (L2–L10) has a standardized Job Description (JD), key Key Result Areas (KRAs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are dynamically customized based on specific project objectives, field campaigns, and institutional activities.
Customized Reporting Formats: Daily reporting structures and deliverables are tailored to the nature of each program (e.g., field survey metrics for research drives vs. stakeholder engagement logs for CSR projects), with progress submitted through the mandatory daily 12 AM reporting line.
Quarterly Review & Compliance: Performance outputs are audited at the end of each quarter in alignment with Section 8 institutional standards and ISO quality compliance to evaluate milestone achievements and field impact.
Transparent Promotion Matrix: High performance, consistent daily reporting compliance, and demonstrated leadership on active projects qualify team members for L-level tier upgrades (e.g., L8 Executive to L7 Officer) along with corresponding compensation or role advancements.
SDF enforces a strict zero-tolerance policy against all forms of harassment, abuse, and misconduct to ensure a safe workspace for team members, volunteers, and project beneficiaries (especially children):
POSH Compliance & ICC Framework: A statutory Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) is operational under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act, 2013. In accordance with legal requirements, the ICC includes an External Legal Member (an independent legal expert/NGO representative) alongside internal presiding officers to ensure impartial inquiries, legal fairness, and strict confidentiality across all office and field operations.
POCSO & Child Safeguarding Policy (CPP): Given SDF's extensive school drives and community outreach involving minors, strict child safeguarding protocols are implemented in alignment with the POCSO Act (2012). Every team member, intern, and volunteer engaging with school children must strictly adhere to the Foundation’s mandatory Child Protection Code of Conduct.
Field Safety Protocols: Mandatory safety guidelines, emergency escalation contact trees, and pre-approved field movement logs are enforced for female staff, interns, and field teams during rural outreach, school campaigns, or late-hour duties.
Confidential Reporting & Grievance Redressal: An anonymous digital reporting mechanism and dedicated grievance email channel are accessible on the portal for swift, confidential, and legally compliant redressal of any ethical or harassment concerns.
Leaves: Full-time staff are eligible for Earned Leaves (EL), Casual/Sick Leaves (CL/SL), and statutory Maternity/Paternity benefits.
Salary/Stipend Payouts: Direct bank transfers (NEFT/RTGS) are processed between the 9th and 10th day of every month following the completion of monthly performance audits. Cash transactions are strictly prohibited.
Gazette Holidays: In addition to official National and State gazette holidays, team members on duty during emergency field drives receive Compensatory Offs (Comp-Off).
SDF maintains strict institutional protocols to safeguard internal data, legal registered trademarks, brand assets, and operational integrity:
Data Security & NDA: All staff, interns, consultants, and volunteers must sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) upon joining. Maintaining complete confidentiality regarding research algorithms, beneficiary databases, CSR/grant proposals, and internal project data is legally binding.
Registered Trademarks & Program Brand Usage: The primary registered trademark SUPANSHA®, along with specialized foundation funds and program trademarks such as SURMAI™ (Emergency Micro-Aid Fund) and SURAMYA™ (Healthcare & Welfare Initiatives), as well as associated program logos, are protected legal assets. They can only be used on pre-approved official documents, letterheads, and authorized campaign materials. Unauthorized use of these registered trademarks for personal or non-foundation work is strictly prohibited.
Mandatory Official ID Card Protocols: Every team member, intern, and field facilitator is issued an official SDF Identity Card linked to their unique Level-ID (L-ID). Wearing official ID cards during field drives, office work, school campaigns, and administrative meetings is mandatory. ID cards cannot be shared, transferred, or misused for non-official activities.
Social Media & Beneficiary Privacy: To protect community beneficiaries (especially minors during school nutrition/health drives), sharing unapproved field media or beneficiary photographs on personal social media accounts is strictly prohibited. Only designated L1–L3 officers are authorized to issue official media statements or press releases on behalf of the Foundation.
Disciplinary Action & L-ID Freezing: Misuse of registered trademarks (SUPANSHA®, SURMAI™, SURAMYA™), breaches of NDA, unauthorized public representation, or fake ID card usage attracts immediate internal inquiry, legal action, and instant freezing of the assigned L-ID.
All remote operations, task assignments, and IT assets are strictly controlled through SDF’s centralized digital ecosystem:
SDF Central Panel & Admin Portals: All official task allocations, project progress monitoring, daily 12 AM reporting, and workflow approvals are processed exclusively through the SDF Central Panel and dedicated domain Admin Portals.
Official Communication Channels: Internal project communications, official documentation, and administrative notifications are governed through official @supansha.org email accounts and SDF Central Panel system alerts. Unapproved personal communication channels are prohibited for official task sign-offs.
Centralized IT & Resource Allocation: Project-specific digital tools—including cloud permissions, survey tablets, field hardware, and custom admin access—are granted directly through the SDF Central Panel based on the member's Level-ID (L1–L10).
Asset Offboarding & Exit Clearance: Upon project completion or offboarding, digital credentials, admin panel permissions, and physical hardware are revoked and reclaimed via a mandatory Central Panel exit clearance workflow.
SDF’s Data Science & Research Wing fosters an open academic research ecosystem guided by distinguished advisory panel members, including retired ICMR scientists, university professors, and domain experts:
Academic Integration & Field Research: University students, scholars, and research fellows can undertake dissertations, theses, and baseline social impact surveys integrated with official SUPANSHA® Findings.
Publication & Co-Authorship: Exceptional research contributions to whitepapers, field surveys, and analytical impact reports published under SUPANSHA® Findings earn formal credit as Co-Authors or Designated Researchers.
Upcoming SUPANSHA Journal Portal: To democratize research access, SDF is launching a dedicated open-access Research Journal Portal to provide local researchers, students, and faculty members with free peer-review support, indexing, and digital research publication services.
Institutional Research & DSIR Recognition: To establish SDF as a nationally recognized scientific and social research institute, the Foundation, supported by its expert panel of retired ICMR scientists and academic professors, is actively working toward obtaining Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) recognition.