Lahiri is presently the Executive Director of "People Like Us (PLUS) Kolkata" which runs a destitute home in Kolkata called Prothoma, offering shelter for the victims of human trafficking and unsafe migration and standing up against the violence meted out to them. The activities have attracted public attention and UNAIDS (United Nations AIDS Program) released a small grant of 400,000 with which Lahiri organised a forum for transgender people by name, the "Indian Network of Male Sex Workers". The forum now has 22 branches in 14 states of India. Agniva Lahiri started the establishment of an organization for transgender people and gender variant men in 2000 and informally started the organization, People Like Us (PLUS) Kolkata in 2001. The organization was registered as an NGO in March 2003. The organization is working as a social forum for the rights of gender variant men and is involved in the HIV and AIDS related activities such as: