The people's economy in this area revolves around agriculture and forest products. While they can manage themselves for five to six months per year, for the remainder of the year, they must rely on credit. The formal credit system, such as Banks, etc., was not able to fulfill the people needs; therefore the people went to moneylenders for loans with high interest rates (50% interest). After analyzing the situation with the villagers' participation, ANTODAYA organized the people, especially the women, to establish self-help groups (thrift and credit groups) in the village, link them with Banks and other financial institutions, organized training for the women on Brooms and Pulses processing, established market links for their produce, and assisted in land development and land based activities. ANTODAYA also helped the womens' groups establish "Public Distribution Outlets" of essential commodities and Grain Banks to help overcome the period of scarcity every year.

Food insecurity for five to six months per year also affects the health conditions and nutritional status of the people. In response to this problem, ANTODAYA has several focussed initiatives to ascertain food security to the masses. These are:

• Mobilizing people to have access over land and homestead plots.
• Assisting people with credit linkage to acquire essential productive assets, such as plough bullock, agri-implements, transport vehicles, etc.
• Assisting people with the puchase of agri-inputs and horticulture plants.
• Assisting people in reclaiming their land and make it arable.
• Forming and assisting 98 Women Self-Help Groups (WSHGs) to face distress (Lagani) and scarcity.
• Promoting village level organizations (VLOs) to manage Grain Banks in the village.
• Promoting the concept of second crop and composting.
• Promoting four VLOs to manage the Public Distribution System (PDS) outlets for 1410 families.
• Promoting processing units through Self-Help Groups to create employment.
• Linking the WSHG members with social security schemes of LIC of India.
• Promoting community managed watersheds for sustainability.
• Promoting Vikas Volunteer Vahini (VVV) (Farmers Club) to be the link between banks (Commercial and NABARD) and people.
• Organizing Social Education Centers and training to upgrade the skills of the people.
• Organizing Health Education and cattle check-up camps.