NARI-O-SHISHU KALYAN KENDRA

What NARI-O-SHISHU KALYAN KENDRA does

Nari-O-Shishu Kalyan Kendra (NOSKK) is a non-governmental, non-profit welfare and development organization established in 1979 and registered as a society in Bauria, Howrah, West Bengal, India. The organization is formed and governed by women from disadvantaged communities and serves marginalized women, children, adolescents, religious minorities, and rural populations across multiple districts of West Bengal (Howrah, Purba Medinipur, Uttar Dinajpur, Dakshin Dinajpur, Murshidabad, Birbhum) plus Kolkata, with its Rehnuma entitlement program extending reach to 11 states. Its core offerings are interconnected welfare programs rather than technology products: SHG-based microfinancing (6,438 women in 392 groups since 1990), the FREEDOM sanitary napkin production unit (3,840 units/week at INR 24 per pack), the Karwaan Centre for vocational and life-skill training, Taleem-Ki-Taqat supplementary education, the Bhabiswat German sponsorship program, Dance Movement Therapy with Kolkata Sanved, the Bunan Hasta Kala women-owned Zari artisan producer company, Rehnuma entitlement facilitation, and the Migrant Resilience Collaboration. NOSKK also functions as an implementing partner for government schemes (SAG-KP/Kanyashree Prakalpa, PBSSD, JSY, RSBY) and global NGOs (Save the Children, Ford Foundation, European Commission via ActionAid, Mundo Cooperante, DASRA's Rebuild India Fund, International Justice Mission).

The organization has no proprietary technology platform, software products, APIs, or AI/ML capabilities. Its revenue model is grant- and donation-based, drawing from a diversified mix of international foundations, government programs, corporate CSR partners (Haldia Energy/RPSG, QUEST Properties), and individual sponsors. The go-to-market is community-led, with services delivered free or at subsidized cost through SHGs, Drop-in-Centres, vocational training centres, schools, health camps, and entitlement centres at the village, panchayat, block, and district level. Customer/beneficiary concentration risk is low given the diversified donor base and distributed beneficiary reach; AI maturity is effectively zero as the organization operates as a traditional community development NGO. Recent strategic momentum is anchored by a 5-year DASRA Rebuild India Fund commitment (2022) and the 2023 Martha Farrell Award for Excellence in Women's Empowerment.

Name

NARI-O-SHISHU KALYAN KENDRA

Legal name

Nari-O-Sishu Kalyan Kendra

Website

https://noskk.in

Company type

Private

Founded year

1979

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Nari-O-Shishu Kalyan Kendra (NOSKK) is a 1979-founded non-profit NGO headquartered in Howrah, West Bengal, delivering welfare and rights-based programs (education, health, livelihood, microfinance, child protection) to marginalized women, children, and religious minorities across multiple West Bengal districts and 11 states.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Welfare and Development Services

NAICS

Business, Professional, Labor, Political, and Similar Organizations (8139), Educational Support Services (611710), Other Technical and Trade Schools (611519), Civic and Social Organizations (813410)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Rural Livelihoods & Economic Empowerment (BPAGABAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Minority, Indigenous & Disability Rights (BPADAGAH), Emergency Shelter, Camp Management & Non-Food Items (NFI) (BPAGAAAC)

Keywords

• Community welfare programs
• Women empowerment services
• Child development programs
• Vocational skill training
• Microfinance self-help groups

Headquarters

HQ city

Howrah

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. NGO Funding and Donations: Nari-O-Sishu Kalyan Kendra operates as a non-profit NGO funded through various institutional donors, foundations, government schemes, and individual sponsors. The organization receives support from international organizations (European Commission, Ford Foundation, Save the Children), government programs (PBSSD, WCD&SW), corporate partners (RPSG Groups, QUEST Properties), and individual sponsors for sponsorship programs.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Nari-O-Shishu Kalyan Kendra (NOSKK) is a non-profit welfare and development organization that delivers community-based programs for marginalized women, children, and adolescents in West Bengal. Its offerings span supplementary education, vocational and life-skills training, self-help group microfinance, low-cost sanitary napkin production, healthcare and crisis response, entitlement facilitation, and child protection services. Programs are operated through community organizations, Drop-in-Centres, vocational training centres, and producer companies, with funding sourced from grants, institutional donors, corporate partners, and government schemes.

Product overview

Nari-O-Sishu Kalyan Kendra (NOSKK) is a welfare and development NGO established in 1979, offering a portfolio of interconnected social welfare programs rather than a unified technology product. The core offerings include the FREEDOM Sanitary Napkin Production unit and Drop-In-Centre for adolescent girls, supplementary education through Taleem-Ki-Taqat and Bhabiswat sponsorship, vocational training via Karwaan Centre and PBSSD programs, microfinance through SHG Formation, economic empowerment through Bunan Hasta Kala Producer Company, dance movement therapy with Kolkata Sanved, entitlement facilitation through Rehnuma, child protection programs, health care initiatives, and crisis response services. These programs collectively address women's empowerment, child development, education, healthcare, and livelihood across disadvantaged communities in West Bengal.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• FREEDOM Sanitary Napkin: Low-cost sanitary napkin produced by NOSKK with 3840 units produced weekly. Distributed to adolescent girls through Drop-In-Centres.

Products and services

• FREEDOM Sanitary Napkin Production A sanitary napkin production unit manufacturing affordable sanitary napkins for adolescent girls and women, produced by six women daily in NOSKK premises, producing 3,840 napkins per week at 24 rupees per package of 8 pieces.
• Drop-In-Centre for Adolescent Girls A centre providing awareness services for young women on menstrual hygiene, HIV, hand wash, early marriage, school drop-outs, and domestic violence, while distributing low-cost sanitary napkins to 1,358 adolescent girls monthly.
• Taleem-Ki-Taqat Supplementary Education An educational program providing first-generation learners with additional classes including standardized school subjects, creativity activities, life skills, hygiene education, and English language instruction, taught to approximately 90 students ages 5-16.
• Bhabiswat Sponsorship Programme An educational sponsorship programme connecting students unable to afford education due to financial constraints with sponsors, supporting school fees, books, and tuition classes; connected 29 students with 34 German sponsors.
• Karwaan Centre Vocational and Life-Skill Development A vocational and life-skill training centre providing training in tailoring, beautician services, mehndi, computer applications, self-defense, and dance for marginalized women and adolescents aged 14-35, across West Bengal, Cuttack, and Bhopal.
• SHG Formation and Microfinancing A microfinance initiative forming Self-Help Groups to collectivize and empower vulnerable women, covering the Uluberia Sub-division with 6,438 women in 392 SHGs across 27 villages under 3 Gram Panchayats of 4 blocks.
• Bunan Hasta Kala Producer Company Limited A women-owned producer company for Zari embroidery artisans providing institutional support to promote and sustain rural women Zari artisans through self-managed institutions and producer organizations, with products available on the government Mahila e-Haat portal.
• Rehnuma Entitlement Centre Programme An intervention addressing exclusion and discrimination against vulnerable groups, particularly religious minorities, through entitlement centres across 11 states, reaching more than 100,000 people with legal aid and social security access.
• Adolescent PROTECT Initiative A programme empowering adolescent girls to become change agents in their families and communities, aimed at reducing school drop-out, early marriage, pregnancies, and trafficking of girls in West Bengal.
• Health Care Program A healthcare initiative including social mobilization for polio eradication, routine immunization, and behavior change communication in seven high-priority blocks of Howrah District, West Bengal.
• COVID-19 Crisis Response Emergency response providing dry ration distribution, safety kit distribution, rapid assessment of slum dwellers, tele-network support, mental health services, and domestic violence support during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Surviving the Streets of India: The Invisibles A child protection programme implemented as partner of Save the Children, targeting 8,000 children living in street situations to ensure their wellbeing, identity documentation, and access to social security schemes.
• Advanced Skill-Development Training (PBSSD) A government-registered skill development programme under Utkarsh Bangla scheme providing training in self-employed tailoring, beauty therapy, desktop publishing, data entry, and mobile hardware repair.
• Kolkata Sanved Dance Movement Therapy A trauma healing and empowerment programme using dance movement therapy in collaboration with Kolkata Sanved, targeting marginalized populations including mental health support during COVID-19.
• Migrant Resilience Collaboration (MRC) A multi-stakeholder programme bringing together NGOs, funders, and industry to ensure safety, security, and mobility of migrant workers through social security entitlements, worker protection, and prevention of trafficking.
• German Volunteers Programme A volunteer placement programme bringing young German volunteers to teach English, drawing, computer, gymnastic, sport, and dance classes for one year, supporting NOSKK's educational activities.
• SAG-KP Kanyashree Prakalpa Convergence Programme A government convergence programme for holistic development of adolescent girls aged 11-18 years, implemented through ICDS cell in Panchla, Uluberia Municipality, and Jagatballabpur Block of Howrah District.

Quantifiable outcome

• 6,438 women empowered through SHGs in 27 villages
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

14 partnerships are on record, tiered minor, major and core.

• Azim Premji UniversityminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Collaboration to develop a public dashboard with information on COVID-19 situations in different blocks of Howrah district during outbreak and lockdown.
• International Justice MissionmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Knowledge partner collaborating on Safe Migration to End Labour Trafficking. Celebration of Labour Day in Howrah, Murshidabad and Birbhum districts on 9th February 2023.
• HelgominorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 January 2020NGO based in Howrah, Tikiapara that facilitated correspondence between NOSKK and German organization for volunteer placements.
• Save the ChildrencoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 June 2019NOSKK is implementing partner for 'Surviving the Streets of India: The Invisibles' project. Save the Children is one of the biggest child protection organizations in the world. The project targets 8,000 children living in street situations to attain identity documents and 5,600 children to access social security schemes.
• Mundo CooperantecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019Supporting the Adolescents PROTECT Initiative in West Bengal (API-I) project. Over all goal: Empower girls to become change agents in their families and communities. Specific Goal: To reduce school drop out, early marriage and pregnancies and trafficking of adolescent girls.
• World Health Partners (WHP)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018Leading THALI (Tuberculosis Health Action Learning initiative) consortium including CINI, John Snow India, and Global Health Strategies. Aims to strengthen TB control efforts in West Bengal through technology-based reporting platform.
• Operation Red Alert / Her Choice-Foundation / Hope FoundationmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018Supporting Safe Village Programme for awareness campaign against human trafficking. Vision to create safe villages and protect vulnerable populations from trafficking.
• Department of Women & Child Development and Social Welfare (WCD & SW), West BengalcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018Government department collaborating on SAG-KP Convergence Programme for holistic development of adolescent girls aged 11-18 years. Implemented through ICDS cell in Panchla, Uluberia Municipality and Jagatballabpur Block of Howrah District.
• Mahila e-Haath Portal (Government)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 January 2017Bunan Hasta Kala Producer Company products available for purchase through government portal mahilaehaat-rmk.gov.in for market access and promotion of women-owned enterprises.
• Freunde der Erziehungskunst Rudolf Steiners (Friends of Waldorf Education)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2016German organization sending young volunteers abroad for one year of voluntary service. Since 2016 they support NOSKK with volunteers teaching English, drawing, computer, gymnastic, sport and dance classes. Have welcomed multiple batches including Catarina Karch, Emmy Becker, Janna Timm, Lidia Kamolz.
• Kolkata SanvedmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2015Woman-led pioneer organization targeting trauma, healing and empowerment of marginalised populations through Dance Movement Therapy (DMT). Workshops led by Maya Sen, Tilotoma and Shobha Di. Also collaborated on mental health support during COVID-19.
• National Foundation for India (NFI) and Centre for Social Justice (CSJ)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2013Anchoring Rehnuma intervention addressing exclusion and discrimination against vulnerable groups, particularly religious minorities. Operational across 11 states with more than 100,000 people reached through 11 entitlement centres.
• West Bengal State Council of Vocational Education & TrainingmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2013Supervising NOSKK Vocational Training Centre providing Machine Embroidery with CAD training. Under Integrated Skill Development Scheme of Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India.
• Women in Need (WIN)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2007Collaboration on Zari Embroidery skill development training with Design Development Program. 240 women trained through 12 centres with support from Ministry of Textiles, Government of India.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Sulabh International: Large Indian social organization focused on sanitation, menstrual hygiene, and social reform. Comparable to NOSKK's FREEDOM sanitary napkin production and menstrual health work among adolescent girls, though operating at significantly larger scale.
• Save the Children India: Indian arm of Save the Children, focused on child protection, education, and health. Comparable to NOSKK on child welfare programming; currently serves as anchor partner on the 'Surviving the Streets' programme.
• ActionAid India: Large established Indian affiliate of ActionAid International working on women's rights, education, and disaster response. Comparable to NOSKK's program areas; currently serves as a funding intermediary to NOSKK via the European Commission Karwaan grant.

Direct peers

• Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA): India's largest women's empowerment organization, organizing women into SHGs and cooperatives for economic self-reliance. Directly comparable to NOSKK on SHG formation, microfinance, and livelihoods for marginalized women, though operating at significantly larger scale across multiple states.
• Pratham: One of India's largest education-focused NGOs, working on literacy, learning outcomes, and vocational skills for underprivileged children and youth. Comparable to NOSKK's Taleem-Ki-Taqat supplementary education and Karwaan vocational training components.
• Smile Foundation: National-level Indian NGO running multi-thematic programs in education, healthcare, livelihood, and women's empowerment. Closely comparable to NOSKK's comprehensive welfare model across similar beneficiary segments (children, women, marginalized communities).
• Mahila Housing SEWA Trust: Trust founded by SEWA working on housing, water, sanitation, and livelihoods for poor women in urban informal settlements. Comparable to NOSKK's QUEST Properties-backed urban health/livelihood work in Kolkata and broader women-led development model.
• Child In Need Institute (CINI): West Bengal-headquartered child rights and community health NGO. Directly comparable to NOSKK on child welfare, women's empowerment, and health interventions; also a named consortium partner in NOSKK's THALI tuberculosis program.
• Jan Sahas: Indian NGO focused on anti-trafficking, safe migration, and women's rights among marginalized Dalit and Adivasi communities. Comparable to NOSKK's anti-trafficking work, Migrant Resilience Collaboration, and focus on socially excluded groups.
• Swayam Shikshan Prayog: Maharashtra-based NGO focused on women's economic empowerment, sustainable agriculture, and community resilience among rural women. Closely comparable to NOSKK's SHG/livelihoods model and rural women's empowerment mandate.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

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