To make a section of the people self-reliant and ensure some means of living for them, the Ashrama undertakes programmes under which van rickshaws have been distributed to a section of street hawkers and scrap sellers which helped them to move on to a vocation which ensured better earning, thus better standards of life. Fishing nets and boats were provided to poor fishermen of the area criss-crossed with rivers and rivulets where fishing happens to be a major source of income, being the gateway to the largest delta of the world, the Sunderbans. A few poor women have been given training in sewing and tailoring on a regular basis with subsequent assistance in the form of providing sewing machines to those who have taken to the profession, thereby earning from their homes.