The informal initiation started with voluntary spirit from 1989 to provide relief & welfare support and services during natural calamities in Ganjam and Rayagada District. The starvation death and sale of human kids of Kalahandi district alarmed the world. Tribal exploitation & rampant corruption was the main cause of starvation . Right of tribal and women was highly affected. Witnessing the drastic condition of excluded community, DAPTA formalized it’s entity as a non profit making secular organisation to combat the situation. As an organisation started with welfare & right based approach for development of excluded community and now working for programme sustainability. To influence the civil society and policy makers it has extended it’s collaboration for networking advocacy and right based campaign on conservation of Land, Water, and Forest. It includes the restoration of survival rights of vulnerable section in different way. The supporting/collaborating partners, CBOs and Govt. has recognized it’s steppingstone in the field of development.