The Institute empowers rural and tribal women to become agents of social change through inculcation of a positive attitude, acquisition of holistic knowledge, and fosters development of a wide range of skills essential to improve their lives, the welfare of their families and advancement of their village communities.

The ‘Open Access India,‘ is a community of practice advocating Open Access, Open data, Open education in India since 2011. Now as a part of its objective, ‘development of community e-infrastructure for Open Access’ is proposing AgriXiv, a preprints repository for Agriculture with the support of Open Science Framework.