NGO Darpan

What is a Voluntary Organization (VO) / Non Governmental Organization (NGO)?

Voluntary organizations (VOs) / Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) include organizations engaged in public service, based on ethical, cultural, social, economic, political, religious, spiritual, philanthropic or scientific & technological considerations. VOs include formal as well as informal groups, such as: community-based organizations (CBOs); non-governmental development organizations (NGDOs); charitable organizations; support organizations; networks or federations of such organizations; as well as professional membership associations.

VOs / NGOs should broadly have the following characteristics:

They are private, i.e., separate from Government
They do not return profits generated to their owners or directors
They are self-governing, i.e., not controlled by Government
They are registered organizations or informal groups, with defined aims and objectives

In India a Voluntary Organization / Non-Governmental Organization can be registered as Trusts, Societies, or a private limited non-profit company, under section-25 Company of the Indian Companies Act, 1956.

What is NGO-DARPAN

The NGO-DARPAN is a platform that provides space for interface between VOs/NGOs and key Government Ministries / Departments / Government Bodies, to start with. Later it is proposed to cover all Central Ministries / Departments / Government Bodies.

This is a free facility offered by the NITI Aayog in association with National Informatics Centre to bring about greater partnership between government & voluntary sector and foster better transparency, efficiency and accountability.

The NGO-DARPAN started out as an initiative of the Prime Minister’s Office, to create and promote a healthy partnership between VOs/NGOs and the Government of India. The Portal is managed at present by NITI Aayog.

This module has been developed by National Informatics Centre (NIC), the premier ICT Organisation of the Government of India under the aegis of Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) , Government of India.

What are the facilities provided by NGO Darpan ?

The NGO-PS helps VOs/NGOs to:

Get details of existing VOs / NGOs across India
Get details of the schemes of the participating Ministries/Departments/Government Bodies (mentioned at home page) offering grants to VOs / NGOs
Apply on – line for NGO grants
Track status of your applications for grants

How can one apply for NGO grants?

To apply for grants the first step is to create your account/sign-up and create your own User ID and Password.
Once you login into your account, there are various links available, for viewing the department-wise schemes, providing NGO grants. Select the scheme under which you want to apply for a grant. The link to your selected scheme will provide you with all the details of the scheme – format in which you have to apply, documents you need to attach etc.
You can get the details of the Nodal Officers for the concerned scheme, from the website. Any queries regarding schemes or about how to proceed for schemes and grants will be clarified by the respective Nodal Officers (List and Contact Details are available on the website).

How to Sign Up and create Account in the NGO Darpan ?

All VOs/NGOs which are already registered as trusts/societies/private limited nonprofit companies are invited to Sign Up on the NGO Darpan (NGO-PS) Portal/Website.
Inside the box with “New Users” Heading, a “Sign Up” button is available.
On clicking “Sign Up” button, an online formwill appear which you are required to fill.
While filling in the form, you are required to make a UserID(can be any word or name which you can remember and use in the future for Logging in to your account) and a Password.
Once you click on the submit button after entering all your details, you will get a message on the screen, saying “You are Successfully Registered.” And you will be shown a Unique Id, which you are required to note downvery carefully (or print the page or save the page) at that time . It would be something like AB/2010/0001234.
An Email with a link for activationwill be sent to your email id, which you have given in your Contact Details in the portal. You are required to click on the link ‘Activate your account’.
After clicking on the link, you would be asked to provide the Unique IDwhich was shown to you earlier (i.e. something like AB/2010/0001234).
After thus Activating your account you can use your UserID and the Password to Login into the website and avail the facilities.

How to fill the Online Form and Sign Up with NGO Darpan ?

There are certain blocked characters which are not allowed in the fields/boxes due to cyber security reasons.

You are advised to refer to the tool tips (icon named “?”) given against each of the entry field (box), and at Right Hand Side top corner, “Tips to Fill in the Form“, about the allowed characters in the fields. Fields entered with blocked characters are not permitted due to cyber security reasons.

For eg .(dot)s are not allowed in any of the “Name” fields under “Ngo Details” , in password field one capital letter (A, B, C…Z) and one number(0,2,3..9) is mandatory and the length should be more than 6 letters.

Other blocked characters include the following:

‘ (apostrophe comma)

\ (backward or reverse slash)

= (equals)

In addition, words like ‘select, drop, insert’ mentioned in the list of the tool tips have also been blocked. Even words with the sequence of ‘select’, ‘drop’, ‘insert’, ‘delete’ like ‘selection’ , ‘selected’, ‘selects’ or ‘dropped’ ‘drop-out’, ‘inserted’, ‘deletes’ etc. will be rejected.

The website URL field accepts only addresses starting from “http://” so if you don’t have any address to give there just leave it blank.

While filling up the “Date of Registration” field, kindly use the calendar given beside the field and you can use the arrows given there to change the months and years.

You are also advised to take care of the file size you are uploading in the Certificate field. it should be less than 2MB – it would be easier to upload a .jpg file.

Registration Certificate should be scanned in pdf or jpg (preferably) format, and uploaded. The size of the file should be less than 2MB.
In case of Trust deeds, only the first page and the page with the signature on it should be scanned and uploaded. Instructions for uploading are the same as above.

What Documents are to be uploaded at the time of Signing Up?

Registration Certificate should be scanned in pdf or jpg (preferably) format, and uploaded. The size of the file should be less than 2MB.
In case of Trust deeds, only the first page and the page with the signature on it should be scanned and uploaded. Instructions for uploading are the same as (i) above.

How does one Edit/Modify/Update one’s profile?

To edit your profile, you need to log into the website, into your account, using your UserID and Password. The Login box for logging in is on the first page (Home Page) of the website under the heading VO/NGO Signing In for Signed Up users.

Once you are Logged In, on the Right Hand Side, on the top there is a link Edit Profile. On clicking this, you can do the required editing of your profile.