What Your ₹101 to ₹11,000 Does at a Kanwar Shivir

It is a fair and important question, and one we love to answer: where does my donation actually go? When you give online in a few taps, or send a bank transfer, it is natural to want to know what your money turns into on the ground. This is an honest, rupee-by-rupee walk-through of exactly what different amounts do at our free Kanwar sewa shivir — so that before you give, you can already picture the tired bhakt your gift will reach.

Our Shiv Kavar Samiti has run a free sewa shivir at Mahipalpur, on NH-8 in New Delhi near IGI Airport, for over thirty years. Every Sawan, thousands of kanwariyas walking home from Haridwar with Ganga jal stop here to eat, drink, rest and heal — all of it offered free. There is no ticket, no fee, no minimum. It is your donation that quietly pays for every plate of food and every bandage handed out through the night.

The simplest number to remember: about ₹35 = one meal

If you take away only one figure from this whole guide, let it be this: roughly ₹35 feeds one bhakt a full, hot, sattvic meal — dal, rice or roti, sabzi and often something sweet. That is the building block of everything the shivir does. Once you know that a meal costs about the price of a cup of chai and a samosa, every amount below becomes easy to picture as real plates of food and real faces at the langar.

There is no fixed price on seva, and costs shift a little with the market each year, so treat these as honest, close estimates rather than exact bills. What never changes is the principle: whatever you give is put straight to use, the same night, for a devotee who truly needs it.

₹101 — feed three tired bhakts

A small donation online in India can feel like it disappears into a big machine. Here it does not. ₹101 is not a token — it is roughly three full meals for three exhausted kanwariyas, or a good stack of sealed water bottles and glucose for a hot afternoon. Do not hesitate to donate 100 rupees; a hundred-rupee gift is a genuine, complete act of seva.

• 🔱About 3 hot sattvic meals for barefoot bhakts arriving after a long walk.
• 🔱Or a crate of sealed drinking water and glucose sachets for the water point.
• 🔱Or a fresh supply of ORS and electrolyte packets for the medical corner.
• 🔱Every rupee used the same day — nothing held back, nothing lost to overheads.

₹351 — a meal for ten, or the day's fruit

₹351 is a beautiful, easy amount to give as a family or in someone's memory. At roughly ₹35 a meal, it feeds about ten bhakts — a whole group of kanwariyas resting together, served in one round at the langar. Or it can cover a large share of the day's fresh fruit and buttermilk, the cool, light things a fasting devotee's body craves most in the monsoon heat.

• 🔱Roughly 10 full meals — an entire group of kanwariyas fed at once.
• 🔱Or a day's fruit, buttermilk and lemon water for the refreshment counter.
• 🔱Or tea leaves, milk and sugar for many rounds of hot chai through a cold, wet night.

₹1,100 — a meal for thirty and then some

₹1,100 is one of the most-loved giving amounts, and it does real, visible work. It feeds around thirty bhakts a hot meal, or it can stock a big part of the langar kitchen for a shift — a sack of atta, some dal and cooking oil that the sewadars turn into hundreds of rotis. This is the amount many donors choose when they want their gift to clearly show up as food on plates.

• 🔱About 30 full meals for kanwariyas through a single busy shift.
• 🔱Or core ration for the kitchen — a sack of atta, dal and cooking oil.
• 🔱Or a batch of kanwar stands and simple wooden supports so the kanwar never touches the ground.

₹5,100 — help sponsor a full day of langar

₹5,100 moves from feeding a group to sustaining the shivir itself. It goes a long way towards a full day of langar — the ration, gas and supplies that keep hot food flowing to a steady stream of kanwariyas from morning through the night. Families often give this amount to mark a birthday, an anniversary, or the memory of a loved one, dedicating a whole day of seva in their name.

• 🔱A major share of one full day of langar, feeding a continuous stream of bhakts.
• 🔱Or bulk ration for the week — rice, dal, oil, sugar, salt and spices together.
• 🔱Or a set of tents, tarpaulins and mats so many bhakts can shelter and rest.

₹11,000 — shelter and a stocked medical tent

₹11,000 is a large, deeply meaningful gift, and it lets us do the bigger things a shivir needs. It can set up shelter and a properly stocked medical point — tents and mats for rest, plus a first-aid station with foot-care ointment, pain-relief spray, antiseptic, bandages and electrolytes for the blistered, dehydrated feet that arrive every single night. This is the kind of gift that keeps a whole corner of the shivir running.

• 🔱Shelter for many — tents, tarpaulins, mats and durries for bhakts to rest.
• 🔱A stocked first-aid and foot-care station for the barefoot walkers.
• 🔱Or, combined as meals, food for roughly 300 bhakts across a busy stretch of the yatra.

Give any amount — there is no minimum

These five figures are only signposts, not a price list. If ₹101 is what your heart and pocket allow, give ₹101 with a full heart — it is three real meals. If you can give ₹51, or ₹21, that too becomes water and food for a bhakt. Bhole Nath weighs the bhaav, the feeling, not the figure. Nothing is too small an offering, and there is no minimum to donate.

Serve every bhakt as you would serve Bhole Nath himself — for in that month, they carry him on their shoulders.

How your donation is used — and why 100% reaches the bhakts

The reason a small gift stretches so far here is simple: the shivir is run entirely by volunteers from our family and community. No one draws a salary from your donation. There is no office, no marketing budget, no middleman taking a cut. So the money you give does not go to run an organisation — it goes to the food, the water, the shelter and the medicine a kanwariya uses within hours. That is why we can honestly say ₹35 becomes a meal.

Because it is built on trust, we take that trust seriously. You are always welcome to ask how your contribution was used, and even more welcome to visit the shivir at Mahipalpur during Sawan and watch your donation become a warm plate of food in front of your own eyes.

How to donate — online or by bank transfer

Giving takes less than a minute. Choose whichever way is easiest for you.

• 🔱Online (fastest): visit our Donate page at /donate and pay in seconds by card, UPI, netbanking or wallet through our secure Razorpay payment gateway. Your details stay safe and the gift reaches us instantly.
• 🔱Bank transfer (NEFT / IMPS / RTGS): send to Punjab National Bank, A/C 0149000104323988, IFSC PUNB0014900, Khan Market branch — well suited to larger gifts like ₹5,100 or ₹11,000.
• 🔱After giving, message us on WhatsApp at +91 98189 08237 with your name, amount and date so we can thank you and tell you how it was used.

A note on tax: Shiv Kavar Samiti does not provide 80G or any tax-exemption certificate, so your gift will not reduce your taxable income. Donations are purely voluntary and are not tax-deductible. We would rather be honest about that than promise a benefit we do not offer — please give simply as daan, knowing every rupee goes straight into the seva.

Ready to turn your gift into a meal tonight

Whether you send ₹101 for three meals, ₹1,100 to feed a group, or ₹11,000 to raise a shelter and stock a medical tent, your donation becomes real service the same night. In a season when millions carry Ganga jal to Mahadev on foot, this is your way to walk beside them. To give now, visit /donate and pay in seconds by card, UPI, netbanking or wallet through our secure Razorpay gateway, or transfer to our Punjab National Bank account. Har Har Mahadev.