Areas covered: A few hundred villages in West Bengal, Bihar and Orissa in eastern India. (Operates in the districts of Burdwan, Birbhum, Nadia,24 Parganas)

Area of work: Rural development

Objectives: To combine the developmental activities with a mass movement to bring a meaningful social change.

• To stimulate voluntarism among the people to organise the poor, deprived and exploited section of the society, to create awareness among them, so that they raise their voice for a better society which would be free from exploitation and would have social justice.
• To motivate and organise the people, particularly the rural and urban poor women for their gainful self-employment, to create their own livelihood through their own enterprises.
• To promote and maintain communal harmony.

• Awareness creation among the rural poor, particularly among the women regarding health, sanitation and literacy.
• Awareness creation regarding basic human rights and duties.
• Organising training for gainful self-employment of  the unemployed youth — leadership development training etc.
• Organising and running slum and village libraries for the neo-literates.
• Undertaking research, studies, etc. to accelerate the process of development.
• Publishing journals, books, etc.