What We Do
Research & Technology
Field research, and the tools we built because the field needed them.
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Baseline surveys
Village, household and enterprise level.
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Impact assessment
Mid-term and end-line evaluation against stated indicators.
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Participatory Rural Appraisal
Transect walks, resource and social mapping, seasonal calendars, wealth ranking.
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Participatory Action Research
Long-form community-led enquiry.
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Detailed Project Reports
Livelihood, skill and infrastructure proposals.
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Indigenous knowledge documentation
Oral tradition, ethnobotany, craft technique, food systems.
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Socio-economic studies
Tribal agriculture, food security, migration, closed-plantation economies.
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Data services
Instrument design, enumerator training, digital collection, analysis, reporting.
We have conducted 15+ baseline surveys and impact assessments with Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha, alongside independent social research on tribal agriculture, food security, indigenous knowledge systems and rural livelihoods in Odisha and North Bengal.
03 — Platform
Mahul Vani AI
A vernacular voice assistant built for people who do not type. Mahul Vani covers 30+ tribal languages, carries an archive of over 100,000 indigenous knowledge entries, gives hyper-local agricultural guidance, and can read a photograph of a crop or a pest and answer back — by voice, in the speaker's own language.
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Tribal languages
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Knowledge entries
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04 — Platform
VanaDrishti VR
An immersive training platform with 50 modules — forest, farm and craft environments that let a trainee practise before they ever stand in the real one. Used alongside our on-site training and, increasingly, packaged with Mahul Vani as paid farmer-training modules in agriculture and allied sectors.
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Training modules
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Environments modelled
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Baseline surveys & impact assessments
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Tribal languages supported
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Indigenous knowledge entries archived
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VR training modules
Earth, Art, Life, Technology & Economy of Permanence