As one of his earliest and most famous achievements, Dastkar was commissioned 20 years ago to develop a rural income-generating program in a village around the Lanternball Tiger Reserve, with a particular focus on women. rice field. The Dastkar Ranthambore project is a good example of Dastkar's work to revive crafts and create craft groups with unique identities. In this case, Dastkar's efforts to revitalize the local handicraft community are the existing locals in the Sawai Madhopur district of Rajasthan, where craftsmen have largely abandoned the handicraft tradition and worked as agricultural workers. Brought to the revitalization of the skills and traditions. When Dastkar started the Ranthambore project in 1991, there were 100 Bandhani workers in Sawai Madhopur, but now there are more than 2000. This Dastkar project directly empowers more than 370 artisans and women in villages in the region.