• Poor productive asset holding
• Involvement in enterprising / trading / business is poor
• Poor knowledge & information on livelihood options
• Poor land occupancy
• Fully dependence on chemical fertilizers
• Forced migration  
• Considered less credit worthy in the institutional front
• Earnings does not support required family demand
• No or less availability of supportive / alternative options
• Borrowing from informal sources in most cases
• Pay exploitative rates of interest
• Market driven skills and vocational inputs not existing or very poor.
• Gap in Enterprising / trading / business skills
• Poor gender strengthening and dev. integration initiatives
• Lack of alternative livelihoods for ultra poor

3.2 GIRLS EDUCATION

• Low enrollments and continued high drop-out rates
• Poor quality of education and inappropriate curriculum
• Lack of motivation among teachers and their recruitment
• Child /early marriage for girls
• Low levels of educational achievement
• Gender and caste disparities
• Poor management of school system

3.3 MENSTRUAL HYGIENE

In our Odisha culture, menstrual blood is considered impure and unclean and there is a little awareness about most natural bio-physiological phenomenon in a women’s lifecycle. Throughout history, directly or indirectly, women have been told that having period is shameful and burden for them. Even today most of the societies carry this understanding of menstrual cycle and accordingly they practice certain activities, which are not acceptable in a so called civilized world. For instance, women do not enter temples or carry out auspicious activities during their menstrual periods