Darbar Sahitya Sansad has been focusing on promoting alternative livelihoods for women and youth in the disaster prone districts like,Khurda, Puri, Balasore and Jagatsingpur districts in coastal Odisha since a decade. DSS has emphasized on women and youth by promoting Self Help Groups and their federations to mobilize the community cooperation, solidarity and build financial powers at grassroots. Thus the issue of migration has so far been dealt in isolation with a single approach of livelihoo