Feed a cow
Bhusa, green fodder, concentrate feed and mineral mix — the single largest recurring cost we carry.
Registered Section 8 non-profit · Delhi & Haryana
Protecting, caring and serving cows with compassion.
Abandoned on roadsides, injured in traffic, too old to be useful to anyone — the cattle who arrive here have run out of options. We give them fodder, treatment, shade and a place to finish their lives with dignity.
80G tax benefit · UPI, cards, net banking · Every registration published below
- Section 8 non-profit
- Licence 145438
Incorporated 26 Jun 2023 - 80G — tax benefit
- AAKCG5525HF20231
- 12A — tax exemption
- AAKCG5525HE20231
- NITI Aayog NGO Darpan
- DL/2023/0354052
- PAN
- AAKCG5525H
What we can prove
3
Years of continuous gau seva
Since June 2023
35
Rupees to feed one cow for one full day
From our own budget
7
Government registrations held and published
All downloadable
100%
Of surplus stays in gau seva — no dividends, by law
Section 8 licence
0
Cows in our care today
Head count
0
Cows rescued since 2023
Rescue register
0
Veterinary treatments given
Treatment register
0
Kilograms of fodder served each day
Daily log
0
Donors supporting this work
Donor register
0
Active volunteers
Volunteer register
We publish only figures we can evidence from our own records and government documents. Where a number is still being verified, we leave it out rather than estimate it.
Why give
A cow nobody wants still eats every single day.
That is the whole problem in one sentence. Once cattle stop producing milk or can no longer pull a cart, they are quietly let loose. They eat plastic from roadside bins, they are hit by vehicles, and they suffer wounds nobody treats.
A gaushala is not a sentimental idea. It is a daily logistics operation — fodder bought and cut, water hauled, wounds dressed, sheds repaired before the monsoon. It runs on money that arrives reliably.
- Your money buys a physical thing. Bhusa, green fodder, cattle feed, medicines, tin sheets, water.
- Nothing can be distributed to members. Our Section 8 licence prohibits dividends or profit-sharing, by law.
- You get an 80G receipt. Deductible under the Income Tax Act, 1961.
- You can check everything. CIN, PAN, 12A, 80G and NGO Darpan are all published on this site.
The seva ledger
We can tell you exactly what a rupee buys, because we buy it every morning.
A cow at our shelter eats 3.6 kg of dry matter, 6 kg of green fodder and 3 kg of concentrate feed a day. At the rates in our project budget, that comes to ₹35. Everything below is arithmetic on that number — not a marketing figure.
| You give | It becomes |
|---|---|
| ₹35 | One cow, one day. Dry fodder, green fodder, concentrate feed and mineral mix. |
| ₹350 | Ten cows, one day. 36 kg bhusa, 60 kg green fodder, 30 kg cattle feed. |
| ₹1,050 | One cow, one month. A full month of feeding, covered end to end. |
| ₹12,775 | One cow, one year. Adopt a cow and carry her feed for twelve months. |
Source: Gopala Satvik Gau Shala project budget — daily feeding cost of ₹350 per ten-cow unit (bhusa @ ₹2.50/kg, green fodder @ ₹1.50/kg, cattle feed @ ₹5.00/kg, plus ₹20 associated cost). Medical care, water, shelter upkeep, staff and transport are funded separately — see Transparency.
Choose what you fund
Six things that need paying for this month.
Sponsor medical care
Wound dressing, antibiotics, drips and veterinary visits for cattle who arrive after road accidents or dog attacks.
Support fodder
A standing monthly gift is what lets us buy fodder in bulk instead of scrambling week to week.
Rescue & rehabilitation
Transport, lifting, first aid and the weeks of recovery care that follow a call about an animal down on the road.
Build the shelter
Sheds, boundary work, drainage and the underground water storage that ended our daily water crisis.
Adopt a cow
Take responsibility for one animal for twelve months. We send you her photograph and updates through the year.
How it actually went
Three years, told honestly — including the parts that went wrong.
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26 June 2023
Registered as a Section 8 non-profit
Incorporated under the Companies Act, 2013 with the object of gau seva — food, shelter, medical aid and dignified last rites for cattle.
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July 2023
The first cow found us
An injured cow whose tail had been bitten off by street dogs was seen wandering nearby. Our sevaks searched for two or three days without finding her. Then she walked up to the gaushala and sat down, as if she had come to ask. Hari Kishan ji treated her. She is still with us.
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19 August 2023
12A and 80G approvals granted
Income Tax approvals came through, making donations tax-deductible and opening the door to institutional giving.
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2024
Moved the herd to Haryana
Space and conditions in East Delhi could not support a growing herd. The cattle were relocated to a site in Jhajjar district where a proper shelter could be built.
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2024–25
The water problem
The groundwater at the new site did not suit the animals. For several months we trucked in water every single day for roughly 65 cows. It was expensive, exhausting and unsustainable — and we said so plainly in our report.
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14 May 2025
25,000-litre underground water tank
Construction began on permanent underground storage. It ended the daily water crisis for good.
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July 2025
A stronger shelter, after the rain took the first one
Heavy rain and wind destroyed the temporary wooden and tin shelter. We rebuilt in steel, with proper roofing and shade netting.
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2025–26
Dignified last rites
When cattle die of age or injury we bury them with respect rather than leaving them to municipal disposal. It is part of what we committed to in our founding document.
Honesty and transparency is the key to our success.
Gopala Satvik Gau Shala Foundation — from our own project charter
From the field
Footage from our own phones.
Unedited clips recorded by our team during rescue and treatment work. See the full gallery →
Verify before you give
Every document a donor, auditor or CSR team would ask for.
Not a claim that we are registered — the certificates themselves, as PDFs, with the numbers you can check on the government portals.
One can measure the greatness of a nation and its moral progress by the way it treats its animals.
Attributed to Mahatma Gandhi
₹35 is one cow, one day. Start there.
You will get an 80G receipt, and you can check every registration we hold before you give a rupee.