Since its inception, TSF has made significant contributions towards bringing justice to indigenous Students, Youth and people of Tripura.

Over the years the Federation has raised its voice against dam construction and alienation of indigenous peoples land and lifting up of APFSA(Armed Forces Special Powers Acts) from the state.

Originally one of the main reasons behind their formation was to initiate a revival of cultural pride among the indigenous population for their traditions, customs & language ,which were quickly dwindling away as many of the members of the indigenous community had started adopting the norms & customs of the Bengali community & some of the members of the indigenous community had also started adopting the Bengali as their mother tongue ,as fluency in Bengali came to be seen as indication of high status in Tripuri Society in the early 1960's.

The very well educated elites among the Indigenous community came to see, the dangers posed by this phenomenon & realized that there was a real possibility of their cultural identity going completely extinct.

Another important incident that motivated the creation of TSF ,was the ridicule that Indigenous tribal students were subjected to by their non-tribal peers for wearing their traditional attire & girl students from the indigenous community were all subjected to compulsory wearing of saree in schools.