Smart sanitation
Woloo Powder Rooms — clean toilets, a women's safe space, a café and IoT hygiene monitoring, at the places India needs them most.
A public charitable trust since 2017
Empowering veterans, war widows, and rural communities through natural farming, Woloo sanitation, and local enterprise.
Gramonnati Trust combines the disciplined execution of ex-servicemen with the vital needs of rural India. We empower veterans, war widows, and youth to champion natural farming, secure Woloo sanitation, and village-level entrepreneurship, driving sustainable growth and community-led transformation.
- 12AA
- 80G
- CSR-1
- VII
What we do
Four pillars, one operating discipline.
Identify a real, local problem. Build a simple, technology-enabled solution. Train and employ the community to run it. Measure the outcome honestly.
Circular economy
Waste-to-Pellet (RDF) units that turn tourist and urban waste into industrial fuel — and into revenue that funds the next unit.
Rural & women's livelihoods
Entrepreneurship, training and dignified employment for rural women, war widows and ex-servicemen families.
Technology & transparency
Live dashboards, audited reporting and BRSR/SDG-aligned data — so every outcome is auditable.
Who we are
Gramonnati means the rise of the village.
“We started with one village. Today, we're building the infrastructure of dignity for a billion Indians — one rainwater tank, one classroom, one Powder Room at a time.”
Founded on 5th October 2017 in Puducherry by Maj. Ved Prakash Sharma (Retd.), the Trust began with a single conviction: rural India does not need charity, it needs capability. That conviction took root in the border districts of Rajouri and Poonch — through digital classrooms, rainwater harvesting and entrepreneurship training with the Indian Army — and has since grown into a pan-India movement in sanitation, circular waste and dignified livelihoods.
Our programmes
One mission. Four frontlines.
Smart sanitationLaunching
The Woloo Programme
In partnership with Woloo — India's only integrated smart-hygiene platform — Gramonnati will deploy and operate women-run Powder Rooms across Bengaluru, Puducherry and Tamil Nadu's temple towns.
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Guilt-free travelOpen for partners
Clean & Divine India
Sanitation and waste-to-resource infrastructure at the destinations India's travellers love most, delivered with travel-industry partners.
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CSR integrationOpen for partners
Travel Partnerships
A ready-to-integrate CSR partnership for OTAs, airlines and hospitality brands — turning every booking into measurable, audited nation-building.
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2022 – 2023Completed
Project Ravi Kiran
A CSR-funded solar dehydration initiative across Jammu & Kashmir and Telangana that turned surplus harvest into shelf-stable products — and into livelihoods for rural women.
Learn moreCompliance at a glance
Registered, audited, and CSR-ready.
- Section 12AA
- 12AASection 12AARegistered public charitable trust under the Income Tax Act, valid from 05.10.2017.
- Section 80G(5)(vi)
- 80GSection 80G(5)(vi)Certified under Section 80G(5)(vi), valid in perpetuity from A.Y. 2019-20.
- CSR Registration
- CSR-1CSR RegistrationReg. No. CSR00017701 — eligible to receive corporate CSR funds under the Companies Act, 2013.
- Schedule VII eligible
- VIISchedule VII eligibleSanitation, health, women's empowerment, rural development and environmental sustainability.
PAN AACTG8992R · CSR00017701 (Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Govt. of India) · Independent annual financial audit
Recognition & network
We build with partners who stay.
Government programmes, research institutions, corporate CSR teams and platforms that have backed the work.
- WolooIndian Army — SadbhavanaAWPOAWWAMission SamriddhiNIIF / Athaang