What SHe-Box is
SHe-Box is a centralised portal run by the Ministry of Women and Child Development. An earlier version was in use by 2019, and the current portal was launched on 29 August 2024. The Supreme Court's orders in Aureliano Fernandes v. State of Goa & Ors., from 3 December 2024, have since directed States to survey workplaces for Internal Committees and put that data on the portal. SHe-Box adds to an employer's existing obligations under the Act — it replaces none of them. The Internal Committee, its written order, and the annual report to the employer and District Officer under s.21, Rule 14 still stand on their own regardless of SHe-Box registration.
The registration flow
- The employer completes a Private Head Office Registration on the portal.
- The employer nominates a Nodal Officer — typically the HR head; the Nodal Officer does not need to be a member of the Internal Committee.
- The District Nodal Officer verifies the submission.
- Credentials are issued once verification clears.
- Branch offices and Internal Committee member details are added afterward.
What the DNO actually checks
The District Nodal Officer's verification is a documents check, not an assessment of whether the Internal Committee itself is properly constituted. The Ministry's FAQ describes the District Nodal Officer's role as "verification and approval of Private organizations/ bodies to enable them to onboard on the portal and upload their IC details". The head-office form asks for:
The company registration number, GST number or company PAN, uploaded as PDF, JPG or PNG.
Name, institution type, State, district, pincode and full address; sub-district and landline are optional.
Name, designation, mobile number and email.
What it does not check is whether the underlying Internal Committee meets the composition rules under s.4, whether the appointment order exists in writing, or whether the confidentiality undertaking has been signed. Registration credentials and a validly constituted Internal Committee are two different things that happen to share a portal.
Whether registration is compulsory for you
The Ministry's SHe-Box FAQ says onboarding is "mandatory for all workplaces including private entities". The Act and Rules don't mention SHe-Box, and there is no single national notification. But the Supreme Court has directed States to put their survey data on public and private workplaces onto the portal, and Delhi's Department of Women & Child Development directed private sector organisations to register by public notice on 12 June 2025. Other State and district directions are widely reported; we list only those we've read at source. See is SHe-Box registration mandatory for private employers?
If a sectoral regulator licenses you, check its circulars as well. A regulator's requirement applies to every branch, whichever State it is in.
A Gautam Buddh Nagar order on SHe-Box registration is widely reported, but we haven't found it published by the district. The answer doesn't depend on it: the Ministry treats registration as mandatory, and every district has been directed to survey employers for Internal Committees. A Noida employer with 10 or more workers should register; one with a Delhi office is also covered there by the Delhi notice.
Scale, as of one date
As of 27 March 2026, the Ministry reported over 1,61,000 workplaces onboarded, more than 68,460 Internal Committee records, and 777 Local Committees. Numbers on a live government portal move; treat this as a dated snapshot rather than a running count.
Where we come in
We handle SHe-Box registration as part of constituting and documenting an Internal Committee correctly, not as a transaction separate from it — the same written order, the same confidentiality undertaking, feeding the same portal record. Our SHe-Box registration service covers the head-office form, the Nodal Officer set-up and the Committee records.