
Entrepreneurship Development
Training programmes help rural youth build practical enterprise capability. SHAKTI’s food processing training initiatives support self-employment and local economic opportunity.
Six interconnected areas of work built around practical knowledge, dignity and sustainable community progress.
SHAKTI works with government bodies and institutional partners to support entrepreneurship, science literacy, rights awareness, sustainable agriculture and community wellbeing.

Training programmes help rural youth build practical enterprise capability. SHAKTI’s food processing training initiatives support self-employment and local economic opportunity.

In collaboration with science and technology institutions, SHAKTI popularises scientific thinking among SC/ST students and rural communities through exhibitions, demonstrations, cultural programmes and creative competitions.

Legal awareness initiatives equip tribal women and vulnerable communities with practical understanding of rights, entitlements and available institutional support.

Horticulture, coir development, mushroom cultivation, fish farming, exposure visits and productive assets support sustainable agriculture and self-employment opportunities.

Community programmes address health, hygiene and environmental conservation, including campaigns against harmful superstition and participatory awareness in tribal and urban communities.

SHAKTI supports Self-Help Groups through livelihood training and income-generating activities such as dry fish processing, bamboo craft, mushroom cultivation and value addition.
SHAKTI’s environmental conservation efforts have been recognised with the Prakruti Mitra Award from the Department of Environment and Forests, Government of Odisha.