DISTRICT RESOURCE CENTRES:
Concept:
Government
Degree Colleges are spread across the state in all the districts. Most of them
are located in rural and semi urban areas. They mostly serve students from poor
and underprivileged sections of the society. The students of colleges located
in rural areas face disadvantages like infrastructural and teacher shortages,
lack of exposure to modern educational atmosphere and inadequate background
support. They need additional support. Although each district has about 8 to 12
Government Degree Colleges and they are working as total individual entities so
far. Pooling and sharing of resources will benefit students of all colleges’
especially rural colleges. The Government Degree Colleges in each district,
therefore, were networked with a select government college in the district,
called the District Resource Centre (DRC). Year long
activities are planned and implemented by the colleges of the district under
the DRC for the benefit of students in the subject and general areas. The DRCs
are expected to tentatively compensate some of the disadvantages faced by the
students of all colleges, especially the rural colleges.
Objectives:
Identifying the
subject and student needs and shortages
Pooling and sharing the resources for the benefit of all students, especially
the rural students
District-level crash programmes, seminars, workshops etc. for the teachers for
improving their awareness and skills in teaching
A variety of district-level regular programmes ,workshops and summer programmes
for students from all the colleges of the district, in areas such as subjects,
skills, career, employment etc
Strengthening the existing infrastructural, material and human resources
Action:
The District
Resource Centers are functioning in 21 districts of
the state from 2007-08. It’s an innovative programme initiated for the benefit
of students in general and rural students in particular.
Annexure – I
Suggested Activities
The activities shall be
at the district level and the participation of students from all colleges,
rural colleges in particular of the district. The Lecturer/principal of the
college concerned shall choose the participating student teams. The other
guidelines can be finalized in the DRCs itself. The activities shall give clear,
visible and quantifiable benefits to students.
Conducting
district level seminars, expert lectures, panel discussions, academic
competitions, career guidance programmes etc.
Organizing short-term summer programmes, certificate courses, training programmes,workshops etc.for
improving various skills of students, including communicative, soft and ICT
skills and job/self employment oriented skills
Special
training for preparing students for competitive examination for higher studies,
research institutes, employment etc.
Visits of eminenet scientists, social scientists,industrialists;experts
etc.for interaction with staff and students for
creating the required awareness
Conducting value based activities, cultural programmes, youth festivals,
exhibitions etc.
Exchange of faculty for
short term teaching programmes and conduct of practicals
Sharing of facilities by the other college students(where there are no such
facilities) without affecting the routine of the host college.
Exchange of students to
working teams for carrying out educational surveys, study projects, field work,
hands on experience etc.
Pooling of students for talking up of community service works
Activities that are consequential to the schemes and programmes intiated at the Commissionerate
level like JKCs, ETRP(ELF),NAAC/QAC activities,Repositioning,Training
programmes,ManaTV etc
List of DRC’s
S.No |
Name of the DRC |
e-mail address |
1 |
Adilabad |
Adilabad.drc@gmail.com |
2 |
Karimnagar |
Karimnagar.drc@gmail.com |
3 |
Warangal |
Warangal.drc@gmail.com |
4 |
Khammam |
Khammam.drc@gmail.com |
5 |
Nalgonda |
Nalgonda.drc@gmail.com |
6 |
Mahaboobnagar |
Mahaboobnagar.drc@gmail.com |
7 |
Nizamabad |
Nizamabad.drc@gmail.com |
8 |
Medak |
Medak.drc@gmail.com |
9 |
Hyderabad |
Hyderabad.drc@gmail.com |
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