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Brief
about the Department
The
University Grants Commission, in 1977, incorporated extension
into its policy statement for higher education. It states
that “If the University system has to discharge adequately
its responsibilities to the entire education system and
to the society as a whole it must assume extension as the
third important responsibility and give it the same status
as teaching and research. This is a new and extremely significant
area which should be developed on the basis of high priority.
The Centre was established in 1977, with
financial assistance from the UGC, to promote literacy programs,
and organize short-term training courses, workshops,seminanrs,
summer schools etc. for various target groups to upgrade
and update knowledge in respective fields. The strategies
have been to organizing programs, which are need based ,flexible,
catering to the diverse needs of a large segment of people,
ranging from illiterates, semi-illiterates to the experts,
professionals and elite groups.
The Centre caters to the needs of those
who have been deprived of benefits of formals system of
education. Its program,s facilitate linking of Higher Education
with development process. It endeavors to reach to the larger
sections of adults, through university system, to provide
learning opportunities and address market demands both in
rural and urban areas. It holds awareness programs in literacy,
post-literacy, continuing education, sanitation, environment,
gender equality family life education, nutrition, population
education, increasing incomes and vocational skills for
unemployed youth for their employment or self-employment.
Number of beneficiaries ranges from 2000 to 3000 each year.
The Centre perform the following functions:
Literacy and Follow up Program; Extension and Field Outreach
activities; Continuing Education and vocational courses,Research,Documentation
and Development of Material, Seminars and Workshops, Guidance
and Counseling, Population Education Extension Activities.
The Aims and Objectives of the Centre are;
to promote a meaningful and sustained report between the
University and the community, to extend knowledge and other
institutional resources to the community and vice- versa.
To gain insights from a contact between knowledge resource
and social-cultural realities, to develop two-way process
between the experts and the people, to create an ambience
for a learning society, to facilitate the development of
capabilities of the community for the overall development
and help people to improve quality of life..
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