Social Reformer - Gauranga Das: Gauranga Das along with his team are working on various initiatives to facilitate the upliftment of tribal villagers. A skill development centre has been established to help tribal village youths get skilled and get good jobs in the industries or make them entrepreneurs by facilitating them to start micro-enterprises. The Rural Development program of GEV has uplifted 470 tribal families above the poverty line since 2009 and is providing sustainable livelihoods through training and facilitating Wadi farming practices, financing and training landless poor in non-farm enterprises, women empowerment, free school lunches, clean drinking water, water resource initiatives for irrigation, rural education initiatives etc.