NT & DNT communities are the most vulnerable and historically marginalized people. They had to be “freed” despite the country became free or independent of the 150 years British Rule. It was only in 1952 when the NT & DNTs were granted their human dignity and equality as enshrined in the Constitution. Even now Education, Employment, Health, Livelihood, Housing, Civic amenities, Drinking Water, Food security and importantly, access to justice – of legal remedy and of legal empowerment ….all these entitlements guaranteed in the Constitution of India yet to become a lived reality for the DNTs, who were branded by the then British government as “Criminals”. ECONET believes that for the DNTs and NTs to break away from the historical exploitation and injustice, the key agency is the leadership of DNT youth and women. They are the ones who shall hold the lantern of change. Youth Leadership programme mobilizes the young boys and girls from the DNT community with an inner drive to change the historically lived realities of DNTs. Youth with ideas, aspiration goals, commitment towards the change process, and more so who are grounded in the community socially, culturally and keen to make the shift on the economic, educational and political aspirations for the DNTs. Women in the DNTs are subjugated by the family and community/clan patriarchy at the most unjust and inhumane manner. The “Clanship” mentality within the community controls every aspect of a woman’s life, and when she transgresses from the predetermined path, she is punished the most cruel and unequal way. Historical invisibility of DNTs added multiple complexities for the women in terms of education, health, livelihoods, access to institutions, participation and legal justice. Women Leadership Programme aims to identify such women who are willing to take the risk of frontline changemakers for the whole community, and to begin with for DNT women they know of and are connected with. Women leaders in the programme ensure that no NT & DNT woman is denied of justice – political, social, economic, legal and educational. Both the Youth and Women Leadership programme showcase that the NT & DNTs can lead their own struggles, they do have their own voice and they can come together despite the diversity within of vulnerability and of political identity. They may not align with the mainstream models of progress, growth and development, and perhaps they need not. Young men and women groomed as leaders work on their own models of change and models of development which values, add and protects the human dignity and socio-political & cultural identity of the NT & DNTs.