department of Lifelong learning and extension

Objectives

  • Introduce and strengthen courses in adult / continuing education at the UG, PG levels and certificate / diploma courses.

  • Create  awareness  on  functional  literacy / continuing education / e-learning  among student  youth and non-student youth

  • Strengthen the database on literacy, functional literacy, primary education, legal literacy, Janshikshan Sansthan and non-formal education.

  • Disseminate research through soft wares and hard wares

  • Networking with other adult education centers, state and central ministries and development department programmes.

  • Sensitizing community on Health / Nutrition / HIV /AIDS, economic development, laws for organized and unorganized sectors.

  • Undertaking advocacy and outreach programme concerning women in rural and urban areas.

  • Serving as a centre for capacity building for Trainers/ NGOS / CBOS / rural and urban women.

  • Producing / publishing software and hardware on functional messages applicable to rural / urban stakeholders

            Training on entrepreneurial activity to unemployed adult is one of the dynamic and pragmatic approach for the development of human resources and the only solution for the unemployment problem. Effective skill training programmes are key to rural development and are a result of active community involvement and ownership of the processes, along with access to appropriate resources for training. The income generating programmes should aim to bring the participants together and empower them to help themselves, and it should provide training, equip them with marketable skills and thereby improving the participant's financial independence and reducing family poverty.

            In this scenario, there is a burning need for a quality oriented education courses that should reach the needed population especially the educationally un-reached population. The Continuing Education programmes were carried out on the basis of the following thrust areas identified.