Rural Development Society (RDS) is a local non governmental NGO. It was established in July, 1986 with the initiation of a group of educated like minded social workers with an aim to promote the socio-economic and cultural status of the rural poor and vulnerable people, emphasising the women and children through conscientization, capacity building, institution building, capital formation, and imparting felt-need based problem solving programs by adopting modern scientific technologies in a view to reduced poverty and empowerment of rural women in decision making processes. RDS believes in non-directive, bottom up, participatory and integrated development frameworks and acts as a catalyst with its beneficiaries.