Hyderabad, October 17: As part of the National Council of Rural Institute’s efforts to achieve a balanced growth in rural sector, its chairman SV Prabhath has drawn up a new initiative titled `Lab Programme’ wherein he wants to involve rural youth and children in the decision-making process of village administration.
NCRI, an autonomous body under the Union ministry of human resource development
(HRD), plans to organise its first national convention of Rural Institutes – 2009 at Jubilee Hall in the Public Gardens here on October 19 in order to bring together all institutions concerned on one platform.
Union Minister of State for Planning and Parliamentary Affairs V Narayanasamy would inaugurate the convention being organised in connection with the Foundation Day of NCRI. He will release a book titled `Gandhi Today’ on the occasion.
Over 100 delegates from rural institutes, Gandhians, resource persons involved in decision-making process of rural higher education from all over the country would attend.
Addressing a press conference here today, Prabhath claimed that NCRI had been adopting time-tested methods to achieve its goals through seven centres of excellence to carry out its operations in a structured manner.
It interacts with various institutes working in remotest corners of the country and provides resource support in taking up projects and programmes aimed at promoting rural higher education as a vehicle for rural development.
NCRI, which empowers rural institutes working at the grassroot level with holistic approaches and evolve them into rural institutes, has drawn up a new initiative `Lab Programme’ to involve rural youth and children in decision-making process of village administration.
“NCRI maintains a dynamic database, and we link all the institutes through different forums and disseminate information according to requirement of various organizations working in rural areas’’, he explained.
Wheel coordinator GVVSDS Prasad, Rural Institutes Forum coordinator RRK Murthy and Rural Resource Informatic Centre (RRIC) assistant project officer Sita Devi were also present at the press meet.
–Agencies–