With a vision to uplift the tribal communities without harming their traditional values of harmony with God and nature, India Tribal Care Trust was formed in 2016 and since then it is working for the upliftment of tribal communities across eastern and north eastern states of India by trying to fulfill the basic needs of education by setting up schools, pathshala, scholarship for poor and meritorious tribal students, organising heath camps, distributing first aid box, tailoring training for tribal women, running vocational training centres, setting up clean water plants in villages where there is scarcity of water, disaster reliefs after natural disaster and covid relief works.

‘We envision a pleasing, prosperous, healthy, educated and culturally rich life for tribal communities built on moral foundations and appropriate technologies that can sustain and nurture future generations and prevent the destruction of tribal culture by modern materialism’ with this vision we formed this trust in 2016. Since then we have build 5 schools, opened 118 pathshalas(informal primary schools) in 114 villages of 10 districts across 5 states, we have more than 160 teachers teaching in these pathshals and most of them are also from ST communities which has also generated employment among them. At present 4300 plus tribal kids are studying in these Pathshalas. We are also running 15 schools which were once runned by the Education department of Tripura government, some of these schools were closed and some were runned with few students and in the verge of closure.

We have found that many tribal youths living in the tribal areas do not continue their studies after higher secondary and they have limited or no other scope to sustain and take care of family and do farming, jhum cultivation. Keeping this in mind we have opened 2 vocational training centers one in Ajodhya hill of Purulia, West Bengal & the other in Shobakoda village in Visakhapatnam district of AP, where the young tribal ladies are provided training in tailoring and embroidery. Once they complete their training we will create self help group of the tribal youths and introduce them with potential buyers. This will help them become self employed and financially independent.

Accessibility of clean water is a problem in many tribal villages. Through our clean water project we have build water reservoirs in the tribal villages of Assam & Tripura and no the tribal women don’t have to walk 3-4 kilometers and get water from fountains and rivers.

At regular intervals we have been organizing health camps in different tribal villages and arranging specialist doctors and free medicines for the poor tribal families. In the second wave of Covid-19 we distributed free medicines among the tribal people in Assam, West Bengal & Tripura. We have also started free ambulance service for the tribal inhabitants of Purulia.

Our Covid food relief works has been one of the big achievement as we were able to distribute dry rations and cooked meals to more than 3.5 lacs tribal in 13 districts across Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Tripura, West Bengal, Jharkhand & Odisha.

Beside our social upliftment activities we have also run relief works after Amphan and Yaas cyclone in the coastal areas of West Bengal & Odisha. We can see there is need for more development works for the marginalized tribal communities,