Following India’s independence, India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru (Panchsheel), emphasized the development of tribal communities. Several policies were formed under his initiative to develop these indigenous communities. However, due to the top-down approach in their implementation, these policies have been unable to affect the differences and improvements towards which they were intended. The marginalized communities remain deprived of the benefits promised through these policies to this day. In order to remedy this situation, certain Non-Governmental Organizations have begun training and preparing the youth from these communities towards the goal of holistic development and improvement. Through these NGOs, local youths have built trustworthy relationships with communities and maintain their voluntarism. In this manner, the NGOs create a bridge between communities and the Government and aid in the decentralization of governance. Non-Governmental Organizations function as catalysts for change, particularly in the tribal society within Bolpur, West Bengal. NGOs work towards community development, as well as making tribes self-reliant and mitigating the development gap between tribal areas and other areas. NGOs working in tribal villages, focusing on providing education which has an impact on social, economic, and political spheres, and in turn creates momentum in their livelihood support and capacity building. This paper seeks to examine the efficiency and effectiveness of NGOs and measure the changes in tribal lives by introducing NGOs into these indigenous communities, as well as study the obstacles these NGOs face while functioning.