Haryana Kanya Kosh

What is Haryana Kanya Kosh?

Haryana Kanya Kosh is a donation fund constituted by the Women and Child Development Department, Haryana for the welfare and development of the girls and women of the state. According to the department's page on wcdhry.gov.in, the Kosh has been established for accepting donations from individuals and institutions, and any amount can be deposited into it.

Haryana Kanya Kosh aims, in the department's words, to generate an environment in which girls are provided with equal opportunities for their growth and empowerment. It sits alongside; rather than replaces, the state's spending on girl-child schemes, and functions as a channel through which private money can be added to public effort.

This page is important for a reason readers often get wrong: Haryana Kanya Kosh is not a scheme you apply to for a personal payment. It is a fund you may contribute to. The individual benefits it supports are delivered through separate schemes, principally Apki Beti Humari Beti.

What is Haryana Kanya Kosh used for?

The department states that the Kosh shall be utilised to provide funds and other inputs for the Apki Beti Humari Beti scheme for the welfare of the girl child, and for any other initiative for the welfare and development of girls and women.

Apki Beti Humari Beti is the Haryana scheme under which an amount is invested with the Life Insurance Corporation in the name of an eligible girl child and becomes payable when she turns 18. The Kanya Kosh therefore feeds a long-horizon savings benefit rather than a monthly transfer, which is why the fund's spending runs steadily rather than in large annual bursts.

How much money has Haryana Kanya Kosh received?

According to the departmental page, Rs 54.22 lakh has been utilised out of a sum of Rs 64.27 lakh deposited through donation. That page carries a last updated date of 31 May 2024, so those are the most recent published figures.

The size of the fund makes clear what it is. Haryana Kanya Kosh is a supplementary corpus in the tens of lakhs, not a headline budget line in the hundreds of crores. It exists to give individuals, corporate houses and institutions a credible, tax-exempt route to contribute to girl-child welfare in Haryana, and an appeal from the Chief Minister of Haryana asking individuals, corporate houses and other institutions to donate to the Haryana Kanya Kosh Society was published in newspapers.

Who can donate, and who is not eligible for a payment?

Who can contribute:

• Individuals; residents of Haryana or anywhere else, in any amount.
• Corporate houses, which may route CSR or philanthropic contributions to the Kosh.
• Institutions, societies and trusts wishing to support girl-child welfare in Haryana.

The department also records that the Kanya Kosh can receive donations in cash and surcharge for the achievement of the objectives of the fund.

Who cannot apply for a benefit:

• Individual girls and their families cannot apply to Haryana Kanya Kosh for money. The Kosh has no beneficiary application form, no eligibility test and no sanctioned individual entitlement.
• Institutions seeking grants are not eligible to apply either. The Kosh transfers money to departmental schemes as decided by its committees, not through an open call for proposals.
• Anyone looking for a girl-child cash benefit in Haryana is not eligible under this head and should instead apply under Apki Beti Humari Beti or another Women and Child Development Department scheme listed on saralharyana.gov.in.

How to apply to donate to Haryana Kanya Kosh

1. Note the official account. Donations go to Bank of India account number 671410110011021, published by the Women and Child Development Department on its Haryana Kanya Kosh page. Verify the number on wcdhry.gov.in before transferring, because bank details are the standard target of fraud.
2. Decide the amount. There is no minimum; the department states that any amount can be deposited in this Kosh.
3. Transfer the money by NEFT, RTGS, cheque or cash deposit at a Bank of India branch, and keep the counterfoil, UTR number or transaction reference.
4. Send your details to the department; name, PAN, address, amount and the transaction reference — so that a receipt can be issued in your name by the Haryana Kanya Kosh Society.
5. Collect the donation receipt and retain it. This is the document you will need when claiming income tax exemption.

What is the tax position of a donation?

The department states two things about tax. First, the donated amount is exempted for income tax under Section 12A. Second, the certificate of registration of Haryana Kanya Kosh under Section 12AA as a "Charitable Society" has been issued by the Commissioner of Income Tax Department.

In practice this means the Kosh is a registered charitable entity in the eyes of the Income Tax Department, and a donor should claim the deduction on the basis of the receipt issued by the Society. A donor whose contribution is significant should ask the department for a copy of the registration certificate for their own records, and should confirm the current section under which the deduction is to be claimed with a tax adviser, since registration provisions for charitable institutions have been amended more than once.

Who governs Haryana Kanya Kosh?

Two committees have been formulated under the Kosh:

• A State Level Governing Committee, which sets the direction of the fund and approves how the corpus is applied.
• An Executive Committee, which handles operational decisions and disbursement to the schemes the Kosh supports.

Both sit within the Women and Child Development Department, Haryana. Because the Kosh is governed by committee rather than by a rule-based entitlement, there is no published grievance route for a beneficiary, the accountability route is departmental and, for a donor, financial.

What documents does a donor need?

How to verify a donation was received

1. Retain the UTR number or deposit counterfoil from your bank.
2. Write to the Directorate of Women and Child Development, Haryana, Panchkula, quoting the transaction reference, date and amount, and request the Kanya Kosh receipt.
3. If the receipt is not issued, escalate through the Feedback and Contact Us links on wcdhry.gov.in, or use the Right to Service route the department publishes on the same site.

A note on the honest size of this scheme

Haryana Kanya Kosh publishes relatively little material, and the reason is structural rather than an oversight: a donation corpus of Rs 64.27 lakh with two governing committees and one funded scheme does not generate the eligibility rules, application forms and payment cycles that a welfare scheme does. Everything verifiable about the Kosh is on this page, the purpose, the account number, the tax position, the governance, the amount received and the amount used.

If you came here looking for money for a girl child in Haryana, the scheme you want is Apki Beti Humari Beti, which the Kosh funds. If you came here to give money, the account number above is the whole process.

Where to get help

• Women Helpline, Haryana: 181, run by the Women and Child Development Department
• Directorate of Women and Child Development, Haryana, Panchkula, for donation receipts and questions about the Kosh
• wcdhry.gov.in. The Haryana Kanya Kosh page under Women Schemes, and the Contact Us and Feedback links in the footer

Never transfer money to any account number given to you over the phone or by an agent claiming to represent the Kosh. Only the account published on wcdhry.gov.in is official.

Common reasons a Haryana Kanya Kosh donation or exemption claim runs into trouble

Haryana Kanya Kosh has no application to approve or reject in the sense a welfare scheme does, since a donor is not seeking a benefit for themselves. The problems that actually occur here are on the receipt and tax-exemption side, and they have concrete fixes.

• Donation sent to the wrong account. The only official account is Bank of India account 671410110011021, published on the Women and Child Development Department's Haryana Kanya Kosh page. A transfer to any other account, including one given by phone or by someone claiming to represent the Kosh, is not a donation to the Kosh at all, and the department cannot issue a receipt for it. Always confirm the account number on wcdhry.gov.in immediately before transferring.

• No receipt issued because the department was never informed. A bank transfer alone does not generate a Kanya Kosh receipt. The donor must separately send their name, PAN, address, amount and transaction reference to the department so the Haryana Kanya Kosh Society can match the credit to a name and issue paperwork. A donor who transfers money and never follows up with these details is the single most common reason a receipt is never produced.

• Missing or incorrect PAN. The receipt used for an income tax exemption claim needs the donor's PAN on record. A donation reported without PAN, or with a PAN that does not match the donor's name, can hold up the receipt or make the later tax claim unusable, since the exemption is claimed against the receipt the Society issues in the donor's name.

• No transaction proof retained. If a donor loses the UTR number, deposit slip or cheque counterfoil and the department's records do not independently show whose deposit it was, reconciling and issuing a receipt becomes difficult. Keeping the bank-side proof until the receipt is in hand avoids this.

• Treating the Kosh as a scheme to apply to for money. A recurring source of frustration is girls or families submitting a request to the Kosh itself for a personal payment. The Kosh has no beneficiary application form and no sanctioned individual entitlement, so such a request is not rejected through any formal process, it simply has no channel to be processed through. The fix is to apply instead to Apki Beti Humari Beti or another Women and Child Development Department scheme listed on saralharyana.gov.in, which are the schemes the Kosh's money actually funds.