New Delhi, January 10, 2026: According to an official release by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, the Ministry has launched PANKHUDI, an integrated digital portal designed to strengthen Corporate0 Social Responsibility (CSR) and partnership-based initiatives for the welfare and empowerment of women and children across India.
The portal was launched by the Union Minister for Women and Child Development, Smt. Annpurna Devi, in the presence of the Minister of State, Smt. Savitri Thakur, and Secretary, Ministry of Women and Child Development, Shri Anil Malik. The initiative aligns with the Government of India’s priority to enhance transparency, coordination, and stakeholder participation in social development programmes.
PANKHUDI functions as a single-window digital platform that brings together individuals, Non-Resident Indians (NRIs), non-governmental organisations (NGOs), CSR contributors, corporate entities, and government agencies working in the domain of women and child development. It enables contributors to register, identify priority initiatives, submit proposals, and track progress through defined approval and monitoring workflows.
For CSR stakeholders, the portal offers a structured and transparent interface to engage directly with government programmes, enabling proposal submission, monitoring, and compliance-aligned tracking of social investments.
The portal covers key thematic areas including nutrition, health, Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE), child welfare, protection and rehabilitation, and women’s safety and empowerment. By providing a common digital interface, it aims to improve convergence among stakeholders and ensure structured implementation, monitoring, and accountability of projects.
PANKHUDI also supports the implementation of the Ministry’s flagship missions—Mission Saksham Anganwadi & Poshan 2.0, Mission Vatsalya, and Mission Shakti—by facilitating transparent and technology-enabled collaboration between the public and private sectors. To strengthen financial accountability, all contributions made through the platform are accepted only through non-cash modes.
According to the Ministry, the portal is expected to enhance ease of doing CSR and partnerships with the government, while improving infrastructure and services across more than 14 lakh Anganwadi Centres, 5,000 Child Care Institutions, around 800 One Stop Centres (OSCs), over 500 Shakhi Niwas, and more than 400 Shakti Sadan nationwide.
The launch of PANKHUDI marks a step towards leveraging digital solutions for inclusive, collaborative, and outcome-oriented development, with the objective of improving service delivery and quality of life for women, children, and families across the country.
The launch of PANKHUDI represents the government’s latest effort to use digital platforms to streamline CSR participation and partnership-driven interventions in the women and child development sector, with a focus on improved coordination, monitoring, and service delivery.
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