: eSaheli Mahila Vikas Foundation is a CSR registered Section 8 implementing agency delivering two flagship skilling programmes for rural women’s entrepreneurship and campus to career readiness, with transparent budgets, utilisation reporting and digitally documented beneficiary outcomes.
CSR-1 Registered
CSR00090518
Section 8 Company
CIN U85500PN2025
12A & 80G
Income-tax Act, 1961
NITI Aayog Darpan
MH/2025/0587462
ISO 9001:2015
Certified Governance
A 12 month skilling journey for rural women combining certified vocational training in Marathi, business starter kits, community events, year round mentoring, same day Udyam registration and market linkages.
BUDGETED UNIT COST
₹5,000 per beneficiary · All inclusive
Eight certified employability modules delivered over 48 hours, covering interview readiness, corporate culture, AI, spoken English, wellness and self defence.
BUDGETED UNIT COST
₹1,500 per student · All inclusive
Audit-ready statutory Schedule VII classification
Both programmes qualify for CSR expenditure under Section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013, read with Schedule VII: item (ii) — promoting education, including employment-enhancing vocational skills, especially among women; and item (iii) — promoting gender equality and empowering women. Both advance UN Sustainable Development Goals 4, 5 and 8; the Saksham Yuva curriculum is additionally aligned to the National Education Policy 2020.
Because a Saksham Mahila batch runs twelve months and will ordinarily straddle two financial years, a contributing company may at its discretion classify the project as an ongoing project under Section 135(6) — with unspent amounts transferred to its Unspent CSR Account and applied over the permitted period — or alternatively time its contribution so that utilisation completes within the financial year. EMVF aligns batch scheduling and reporting to the treatment chosen.
The verified LOI pipeline means a sponsored Saksham Mahila batch is identified, confirmed and convened within approximately ten days of funding — no cold starts.
Contribution received; batch allocated; deployment area finalised from the LOI pipeline
Event 1: enrolment, bundle selection, portal onboarding, kit distribution, parallel medical & awareness camps
Course completion; monthly live Q&A; tutor-moderated community support; on-call assistance
Event 2: entrepreneurship & finance training, on-site Udyam registration, certification ceremony
Marketplace listing, exhibitions and placement coordination; income outcomes tracked
Impact report, dashboard update and fund utilisation statement to the sponsor
Final impact report, utilisation certificate and batch close-out; community access continues
The contribution is a voluntary CSR grant — not a price for any service or deliverable; unit figures are the Foundation’s budgeted programme cost, presented for transparency of utilisation.
100% of the contribution is applied to programme delivery. Mobilisation and delivery expenses are direct programme costs — not administrative overheads — supporting the contributing company in remaining comfortably within the 5% administrative-overheads ceiling under the Companies (CSR Policy) Rules, 2014.
All procurement is undertaken directly by the Foundation at component level to eliminate intermediary margins; the budget is constructed with no surplus of any nature.
Unit cost remains constant at every scale — whether the sponsored batch is 100 or 10,000 — and no volume discounts are offered, because there is no margin to discount.
The contribution is a CSR grant, not consideration for any supply of goods or services; accordingly, no GST is chargeable on the contribution. All procurement-side GST incurred by the Foundation is absorbed within the per-beneficiary budget. Contributions are eligible for deduction under Section 80G, subject to the applicable treatment of CSR expenditure under the Income-tax Act; companies are advised to take their own tax position.
A batch or cohort named after the organisation, carried through enrolment records and reporting.
Digitally documented beneficiary records — every beneficiary, from enrolment to outcome.
Quarterly impact reports with stories, photographs and data from the field; dashboard access — live for Yuva cohorts.
Quarterly fund utilisation statements, and a formal utilisation certificate at close-out.
Invitations to field visits and both offline events, with a structured employee-volunteering protocol for companies that wish to involve their teams.
Openness to sponsor-appointed audit or third-party evaluation at any stage.
The Foundation does not currently hold FCRA registration, which does not affect CSR contributions from companies incorporated in India.
The Foundation’s technology procurement is undertaken on a documented arm’s-length basis, supported by a written agreement and pricing documentation held ready for verification.