KALYAN, is a district level youth organization of Purulia, affiliated to Ramakrishna Mission Lokasiksha Parishad, Narendrapur is engaged in sustainable rural development activities since its inception in the year 1980. Encou-ragement of youth groups and institutionalizing their efforts for the overall benefit of the village people are the basic approaches of its rural development activities. With its participatory development approach Kalyan is working in more than 200 villages located in different blocks of the district. Now, some activities are also undertaken in the district of Bankura through Kamalpur Adibashi Mahila Unnayan Samity. As a leading NGO, it has initiated a number of developmental programmes over the years to stand by the poor and downtrodden rural people to help them have faith in themselves, manifest and develop their leadership potentials, thus developing confidence to make the communities self-propelling.