UGC Report on Inter University Center on Rural - Ministry of Rural ...

Chapter 4
OBJECTIVES
The Committee recommends the following objectives for the
proposed Inter University Consortium for Rural Development
1. To serve as a national hub of knowledge connectivity for
Rural Development by networking a set of regional hubs or
the Regional Platforms for Knowledge Connectivity – the
later to be based on consideration of agro-climatic region;
2. To support dedevelopment of plans and policies for rural
development by research, training and demonstration and
create functioning packages of social technologies, physical
technologies and economic policy strategies for various agroclimatic
regions;
3. To facilitate development of techno-managerial cadres
needed for the rural development plans of the country – and
to this end create innovative academic programmes. At the
same time, evolve HRD package (including training) suitable
for the development of each region;
4. To help in working out S&T intervention modules,
particularly for the development leap-frogging of the
backward regions, by synergizing the resources that are
available with various stake-holders like <strong>UGC</strong>, ICAR, CSIR,
industries, ISRO, NGOs and private sector institutions.
5. To help create special institutional structures and schemes for
nurturing leadership in regional development/
entrepreneurship with special focus on the most backward
regions;
6. To sponsor creation of new ‘regional rural development
universities’, particularly in the most backward agro-climatic
regions where networking of institutional-mix is not feasible
because of non-availability of the requisite infrastructure and
skills at present.
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