Ekta Parishad is a Gandhian organisation, it works towards community based governance (gram swaraj), local self-reliance (gram swawlamban) and responsible government (Jawabdehi Sarkar). To achieve this, Ekta Parishad has organised people into two complimentary streams: firstly, it brings people together to struggle for their rights (taking action only when dialogue has proven impossible): and secondly, it develops community-based economic systems that enable local self-sufficiency so that dependence on welfare and dysfunctional government programs is lessened.

In working towards this vision, Ekta Parishad has taken up a land rights campaign to assist poor people in gaining control over their livelihood resources. The land campaign is geared towards both acquiring and properly managing these resources. With this in view Ekta Parishad is now working in more than 60 districts, in eight states touching 4000 villages with more than 50 lakh population. By gaining control over certain natural resources these unemployed people are given another opportunity to support themselves. Ekta Parishad concentrates in effort in remote where the mainstay livelihood is farming.