Our Purpose
Vanavasi Village Development Trust supports village development in Vanavasi and surrounding communities in Salem district, Tamil Nadu.
Our 2023–2025 activity report records ten areas of work, including education, drinking water, government schools, healthcare, public infrastructure and welfare assistance.
Our Objectives
Our trust deed sets out the following objectives for Vanavasi Village Development Trust:
- Providing training for women to achieve economic self-reliance.
- Providing skill development training for young people.
- Developing the sporting talent of young people by offering sports training and setting up a fitness centre.
- Implementing schemes to raise the standard of living of farmers.
- Training farmers in marketing the produce they grow.
- Conducting medical check-up camps for elderly people in the village and arranging appropriate treatment for any illnesses identified.
- Arranging higher-education guidance for students.
- Improving basic amenities in the village.
- Providing free education, free medical care and other basic support for elderly people, poor and needy families, children who have lost their parents, and elderly people abandoned by their families.
- Encouraging students of the village’s primary, middle and higher secondary schools by announcing prizes and awarding cash prizes in recognition of their academic achievement.
- Understanding the needs of the village’s people and, with the approval of the executive committee, implementing village development projects suited to the circumstances of the time.
- Obtaining income tax exemption, as permitted under the Income Tax Act, for donations received by the trust.
- Carrying out other activities decided by the trust’s management committee.
Our Community Work
Masakaliyur · Plant 1
Residents receive water cards at the RO drinking water plant opened on 25 February 2024.
Aayathasanur · Plant 2
The RO drinking water plant and its water treatment unit, opened on 25 February 2024.
Vanavasi · Primary Health Centre
Medical equipment, an RO water purifier and furniture for the Government Primary Health Centre.
Key Office Bearers of the Trust
The trust is managed by the following office bearers.

C. Ramesh
President

D. Ramesh
Secretary

K. Venkatachalapathy
Treasurer

R. Gowtham
Joint Secretary
President
Secretary
Joint Secretary
Treasurer
Our CSR Partner
Trimed Solutions (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Mr Selvakumar Devannan, Managing Director
The trust’s work in Sanarapatti panchayat is funded through the corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme of Trimed Solutions (India) Pvt. Ltd. Since 2023 this support has funded ₹56.03 lakh of work in our villages. We thank the company and its Managing Director for their support.
Registered Trust
Vanavasi Village Development Trust is a registered charitable trust based in Vanavasi, Salem District, Tamil Nadu. Donations to the trust are eligible for tax deduction under Section 80G of the Income-tax Act, 1961.
Registered Trust Deed
Dated 2 February 2023, registered as Document No. 3/2023 (Book IV)
PAN
AADTV9569Q
Registered Office
D.No 12/106, Sanarapatti, Vanavasi, Mettur (T.K), Salem (Dist), Tamil Nadu – 636457
80G Approval
URN AADTV9569Q25CH02 · approved by CIT (Exemption), Chennai on 24 June 2026 · valid for AY 2026-27 to 2030-31. Copy available on request.
