Process How to Get NGO Registration and LOGO Registration

In a rapidly developing country such as India, NGOs (non-governmental organizations) are playing a major role between the state and citizens for the welfare of the society. NGO is legally constituted by legal or natural persons without any representation of government to serve social causes. Their programmes are mainly focused to communities which are poor comprising women and children. They are basically non-profit organizations which devote all their profits to fulfill the aims and objectives of their mission. NGO's services are helpful to great extent for the proper functioning of any democracy which includes common people and government administration.

Vision and Mission:

All the NGOs mainly target the poor and the needy segments of the society like slums, tribal belts where government programmes are hard to reach. NGO's areas of focus include education, healthcare, gender equality, vocational training and upliftment of the differently-able children. Many NGO’s are also involved with government to implement policies which will be beneficial to the senior citizens and put emphasis on making senior citizens aware of their rights so that they can play an active role in the society.

They are also working constantly to make the society aware of such concerns regarding the elderly. Every NGO involves long-term strategy for emancipating the whole community through various interventions. NGO enable under privileged children and poor people to be self-reliant and enjoy a healthy and dignified life. Many health programmes are being supported and conducted in the prevention and control of diseases like AIDS, Leprosy, and Tuberculosis etc among the rural population of the country. NGOs perform a wide range of activities and conduct various types of activities like when tsunami hit India; many NGOs came forward with volunteers for providing food and medical aid.

For starting an NGO it requires understanding of certain procedures and laws. In India NGO's can be registered as:

1) Trus
2) Society
3) Company under section 25 of company act 1956

The non government organizations are registered as a trust when there is property involved, especially in terms of land and building. Societies can be registered under the Societies Registration Act 1860, in accordance with section 20 of the act. The societies can be registered for charitable purposes. A company can be established for promoting commerce, art, science, religion, charity or any other useful object in which all the profits or any other income is applied for promoting the objects of the company and no dividend is paid to the members.

Many NGO's run various awareness programs to create social awareness on various areas such as child marriage, dowry prohibition, women empowerment and female infanticide. In India Educational NGOs are large in number as it is considered by them that Education is the most powerful weapon that can be used to change the whole world. NGOs move smoothly towards their mission as they face less pressure from change in politics. They follow small scale projects with more community involvement and as a result higher success rates are achieved. NGO’s role is helping people in the time of catastrophe.